Senior Compliance

4 weeks ago


Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Shangri-La Hotels Dubai Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Compliance & Data Protection Manager to join our team. As a key member of our Commercial Team, you will be responsible for ensuring our business operates within compliance and data protection frameworks, processes, controls, and best practices.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and maintain a compliance framework that meets the needs of our business.
  • Work with our partner banks on any compliance-related matters that the banks are raising.
  • Interpret compliance and data protection requirements and find solutions that meet both our product requirements and external party requirements.
  • Train staff internally so that they are aware of the compliance and data protection issues and have an understanding of why things are needed.
  • Research regulatory requirements in the different regions that we work in and update internal teams accordingly.
  • Manage and drive any compliance audits that external parties (e.g. audits conducted by our clients or partner banks) perform on our business - this will also involve working with multiple teams within our business.
  • Investigate, identify, and resolve any potential compliance and data protection breaches.
  • Manage ongoing AML, sanctions screening, KYC, and due diligence checks to align with our risk appetite as well as ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and rules.
  • Where appropriate, introduce new systems and processes that simplify and improve ongoing AML, sanctions screening, KYC, due diligence checks, and data protection compliance.
  • Act as a key point of contact to support the business in operating within compliance and data protection frameworks, processes, controls, and best practices.
  • Completion and ownership of any compliance-related due diligence questionnaires and RFPs.
  • Drafting and reviewing any compliance and data protection policies that are required to meet the business needs.
  • Implement monitoring plans to assess the efficiency of compliance controls and assist with the enhancement of procedures and controls
  • Conducting data protection impact assessments.
  • Assess subcontractors who may need to be added to the list of sub-processors and manage current list of sub-processors.
  • Draft, rollout and ensure compliance with a data retention policy.
  • Responding to data subject access requests.
  • Drafting and reviewing data protection agreements and clauses.
What You Can Expect

At Paymentology, we value making a difference to the lives of the people who work for us and who live in the communities where we operate. You can look forward to working with a diverse, global team where Paymentologists at all levels play an important part in our global mission to advance the world through payments and make a difference on a global scale.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you should have at least 5 years of experience in a role that has given you hands-on experience in dealing directly with compliance issues, with experience at a fintech or challenger bank being a plus. As part of your compliance role, you would have also gained in-depth experience managing a business's compliance with data protection.

You need to be an excellent communicator, personable, professional (financial clients still tend to be formal and conservative), and able to empathize with external counterparts and internal teams while keeping our business front of mind. You need to want to be involved in the business and work continually with other teams to solve problems.

A legal grounding emphasizing the various laws that Banks are subject to is very important, and a mindset to learn and adapt is key. The ability to work under pressure, prioritize, take responsibility, and work to tight deadlines is key.

Good grasp of UK-GDPR, GDPR, POPI, FCA, EBA, FIC, and other laws affecting the global finance industry.

Relevant postgraduate degree, with a legal degree being advantageous.

Remote Work

Yes

Employment Type

Full time



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