Manager - Financial Crime

• The Manager - Financial Crime manages the policies and procedures related to KYC & AML-CFT risks (from the regulators - UAE Central Bank and UAE Capital market Authority (CMA) regulations.
• The Manager - Financial Crime contributes to the transaction monitoring framework.

The role encompasses these key responsibilities:

• Leading the financial crime policy and procedures framework ensuring effective implementation of KYC and AML-CFT policies.
• Update the policies & procedures whenever necessary.
• Contributes to AML risk assessments, ensuring a strong control environment to mitigate financial crime risks.
• Contributing to the AML-CFT transaction monitoring framework, advising/managing a team responsible for processing alerts, maintaining and enhancing the transaction monitoring system, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Management of the transaction monitoring team (and advising the first Line of defence team), ensuring timely and accurate review, escalation, and resolution of alerts and suspicious transactions.
• Review Suspicious Transactions and Suspicious Activity for submission to the MLRO.
• Maintain strong engagement with business units to ensure adherence to AML-CFT policies.

• Support the MLRO to engage with the UAE regulators on AML-CFT compliance matters.
• Deliver AML-CFT training and awareness programs across the organization under the MLRO guidance.

• Responsible for distribution of tasks and responsibilities among employees under your supervision:
  Transaction Monitoring team.
• Supervision of staff’s work and tasks, with accountability to ensure delivery of and compliance with tasks.
• Overall responsibility for ensuring employees’ competence and appropriateness in line with the above, but also responsible for escalating and taking an appropriate course of action in case of non-compliance on the part of the employee.
• Key contributor to achieving EIBank’s Emiratisation targets.