Lead – AML & Compliance Advisory
Weekday (YC W21)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇮🇳 India
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💰 ₹960,000 - ₹1,210,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead the drafting, review, and finalization of AML & CFT policies, sanctions frameworks, CDD/KYC manuals, compliance programs, and governance charters.
- Develop detailed SOPs covering customer onboarding, risk assessment, transaction monitoring, escalation, sanctions screening, and STR reporting.
- Ensure full alignment of documentation with UAE and broader GCC regulatory requirements.
- Customize and localize AML and compliance documentation for UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain.
- Conduct AML risk assessments, gap analyses, and compliance audits, including detailed reporting and remediation recommendations.
- Prepare compliance advisories, regulatory submissions, legal notes, and formal response letters to regulators.
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of 5+ compliance analysts, ensuring high-quality and timely deliverables.
- Review team outputs to ensure audit-ready, regulator-facing standards comparable to top-tier consulting firms.
- Act as the primary point of contact for clients, managing expectations, timelines, and delivery quality.
- Coordinate multiple engagements simultaneously while maintaining consistency and regulatory accuracy.
Requirements
- Strong, hands-on experience in AML policy drafting and SOP development (mandatory).
- 4–5+ years of experience in compliance documentation, regulatory advisory, or legal drafting roles.
- Professional qualification: CA, CS, or LLB.
- Excellent written English with strong structuring, articulation, and attention to detail.
- Proven experience leading and reviewing work of teams (minimum 2+ members).
- Comfortable working in UAE time zone and handling GCC-focused regulatory work.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AML policy draftingSOP developmentcompliance documentationregulatory advisorylegal draftingrisk assessmenttransaction monitoringsanctions screeningSTR reportingcompliance audits
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringteam managementcommunicationattention to detailorganizational skillsclient managementexpectation managementtimelinessquality assurance
Certifications
CACSLLB