Senior Risk Strategy Manager （ME）

PingPong Payments; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

PingPong Payments is looking for a seasoned risk and compliance professional based in Dubai. In this role, you will design risk control frameworks for various products and translate regulatory requirements into proportionate controls.

The ideal candidate should have over 7 years of experience in risk or financial crime within payments or banking, with strong skills in documentation and risk solutioning. This position offers an opportunity to work closely with commercial and compliance teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime at a payments, fintech, or banking institution.
• Deep working knowledge of local market practices and financial crime typologies.
• Ability to design proportionate controls, not just flag risks.

Responsibilities

• Design risk control frameworks for new products and client segments.
• Translate regulatory requirements into effective controls.
• Produce clear, audit-ready documentation for risk and compliance.

Skills

Risk solutioning

Operational compliance

Financial crime expertise

Excellent written documentation

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