Senior Risk Strategy Manager （ME）

PingPong Payments; Dubai; On-site; AED 670,000 - 1,004,000; Full time

Job summary

PingPong Payments in Dubai seeks a senior risk and compliance specialist to design end-to-end controls for new products, markets and client segments, covering onboarding, transaction monitoring, limits and review triggers.

The role requires translating local regulatory requirements into proportionate controls, producing audit-ready documentation, and partnering with commercial, compliance, operations and HQ to land practical solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime within payments, fintech, or banking.
• Strong knowledge of local ME regulatory practices and market norms.
• Ability to design proportionate controls and implement compliance solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end risk control frameworks for new products and markets.
• Translate local regulatory requirements into proportionate controls.
• Produce audit-ready documentation such as frameworks, risk assessments, and policies.
• Collaborate with commercial, compliance, operations and HQ to deploy solutions.
• Localise HQ frameworks to ME market reality and oversee live and new markets.

Skills

Risk management

Financial crime

Regulatory compliance

Policy writing

Documentation

Cross-border experience

Stakeholder management

Job description

• Design end-to-end risk control frameworks for new products, markets, and client segments — onboarding, inbound and outbound transaction monitoring, limits, and review triggers.
• Translate local regulatory requirements and market practice into proportionate controls
• Produce clear, audit-ready documentation — control frameworks, risk assessments, verification frameworks, and policy.
• Partner with commercial, compliance, operations, and HQ to land solutions and clear blockers.
• Localise HQ frameworks to ME market reality and own solutioning across live and new markets.

Core requirement

• 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime at a payments, fintech, or banking institution; cross-border experience strongly preferred
• Deep working knowledge of local market practice, documentation norms, and financial crime typologies in the region
• Strong risk solutioning — able to design proportionate controls, not only flag risk
• Excellent written documentation in clear English — frameworks, policy, and risk assessments
• Comfortable operating across commercial and compliance functions; pragmatic and business-enabling
• Compliance or financial crime background welcome