Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the Bank’s Compliance function, ensuring adherence to applicable local and international laws, regulations, regulatory instructions, and internal policies.
• Develop, implement, and maintain compliance policies, procedures, frameworks, and controls in line with regulatory requirements and international best practices.
• Oversee the Bank’s AML/CFT program, including financial crime risk assessment, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity investigations, escalation, and regulatory reporting.
• Supervise KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) processes, with particular focus on high-risk customers, transactions, products, services, and geographic locations.
• Lead and oversee the sanctions compliance program, including screening and monitoring of customers, transactions, counterparties, and other relevant parties against applicable local and international sanctions lists.
• Monitor compliance with AML/CFT, KYC, sanctions, and other regulatory requirements across the Bank’s branches, subsidiaries, and agents, where applicable.
• Conduct compliance monitoring and testing, identify breaches and control gaps, and ensure timely corrective and remedial actions.
• Maintain effective relationships with regulatory and supervisory authorities, internal audit, and external auditors, and coordinate regulatory examinations, inspections, and audit requirements.
• Prepare and submit required compliance, AML/CFT, sanctions, and regulatory reports to senior management and relevant authorities.
• Provide regular reporting to senior management and relevant committees on compliance risks, regulatory developments, breaches, investigations, and remediation activities.
• Monitor emerging compliance and financial crime risks and recommend appropriate mitigation measures and improvements to systems, controls, and processes.
• Advise business units on compliance requirements related to customers, transactions, products, services, and other higher-risk activities.
• Lead, supervise, and develop the Compliance team, ensuring effective performance management, training, resource allocation, and succession planning.
• Ensure business continuity for critical compliance and AML/CFT activities and maintain the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Law, or a related field.
• 8–12 years of relevant experience in banking or financial services, including significant experience in Compliance, AML/CFT, KYC, Sanctions, or Financial Crime.
• Proven experience in a senior compliance or department-head position, including team leadership and supervision.
• Professional certification in AML, Compliance, Financial Crime, Risk Management, or Sanctions is preferred.
• Strong practical knowledge of AML/CFT regulations, KYC/CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity investigations, sanctions screening, and regulatory reporting.
• Strong understanding of banking products, services, operations, systems, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Proven experience dealing with regulatory and supervisory authorities and internal/external auditors.
• Strong analytical, investigation, risk assessment, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and crisis-management capabilities.
• High level of integrity, confidentiality, transparency, neutrality, and professional ethics.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant compliance/banking systems.
• Fluency in Arabic and English.

المهارات المطلوبة

• قوانين

تفاصيل الوظيفة

• الموقع عمان - الأردن
• القطاع المحاسبة والمالية
• نوع الوظيفة دوام كامل
• الدرجة العلمية بكالوريوس
• الخبرات 8-12
• الجنسية غير محدد