Anti-Money Laundering Analyst
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About the Role
Line Two is supporting a confidential bank in Dubai to hire an Anti-Money Laundering Analyst. The role involves supporting financial crime operations including AML, KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring, and escalation workflows.
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Responsibilities
- Support financial crime operations across AML, KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring, and escalation workflows
- Review customer documentation, profiles, risk ratings, transaction activity, and supporting information for completeness and accuracy
- Conduct or support sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening checks and document outcomes clearly
- Assist with transaction monitoring alerts by reviewing customer activity, identifying red flags, and preparing case notes
- Identify documentation gaps, inconsistencies, unusual activity, and cases requiring escalation
- Maintain accurate trackers, case notes, evidence files, and audit ready documentation
- Coordinate with Compliance, Operations, Risk, Onboarding, and Customer teams to close pending items within SLAs
- Support periodic reviews, customer file refresh, QA checks, and remediation activities where required
- Assist with reporting/MI on case volumes, pending actions, escalations, quality issues, and recurring trends
- Contribute to improving SOPs, checklists, templates, and financial crime workflows
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Law, Risk, Economics, or a related field
- 0–4 years experience in financial crime, AML, KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring, compliance operations, banking operations, fintech operations, or risk operations
- Basic understanding of AML/KYC concepts, red flags, sanctions screening, customer due diligence, and risk based approach
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately with customer files, case notes, and trackers
- Strong Excel skills and comfort working with operational data and reports
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Arabic is a plus
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About the Role
- Line Two is supporting a confidential reputable bank / regulated financial institution in Dubai to hire an Anti Money Laundering Analyst.
- This role will support day to day financial crime activities across AML, KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring support, case documentation, and escalation workflows within a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Support financial crime operations across AML, KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring, and escalation workflows.
- Review customer documentation, profiles, risk ratings, transaction activity, and supporting information for completeness and accuracy.
- Conduct or support sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening checks and document outcomes clearly.
- Assist with transaction monitoring alerts by reviewing customer activity, identifying red flags, and preparing case notes.
- Identify documentation gaps, inconsistencies, unusual activity, and cases requiring escalation.
- Maintain accurate trackers, case notes, evidence files, and audit ready documentation.
- Coordinate with Compliance, Operations, Risk, Onboarding, and Customer teams to close pending items within SLAs.
- Support periodic reviews, customer file refresh, QA checks, and remediation activities where required.
- Assist with reporting/MI on case volumes, pending actions, escalations, quality issues, and recurring trends.
- Contribute to improving SOPs, checklists, templates, and financial crime workflows.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Law, Risk, Economics, or a related field.
- 0–4 years experience in financial crime, AML, KYC/CDD, screening, transaction monitoring, compliance operations, banking operations, fintech operations, or risk operations.
- Basic understanding of AML/KYC concepts, red flags, sanctions screening, customer due diligence, and risk based approach.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately with customer files, case notes, and trackers.
- Strong Excel skills and comfort working with operational data and reports.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus.
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Experience in banking, fintech, payments, insurance, wealth management, crypto, or regulated financial services.
- Exposure to CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, QA/QC, periodic reviews, or remediation projects.
- Experience with tools such as World Check/Refinitiv, Dow Jones, ComplyAdvantage, LexisNexis, Actimize, Oracle FCCM, or similar.
- Certifications or progress toward: CAMS / ICA / CFE or similar.
How to Apply
- Apply via LinkedIn with your updated CV. Please include your notice period, current location, and UAE work authorization/visa status if applicable.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Hiring decisions are based on skills, experience, potential, and role requirements.
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