Compliance Officer

The Role

• We are seeking to hire an exceptional Compliance Officer to join our Dubai office.
• This role will report into the Director of Compliance, based in Dubai, and hold several responsibilities for the EMEA region in the Global markets advisory space, and the Compliance department.
• This position requires a focus on high levels of service and technical expertise.
• It requires a blend of regulatory, investment and markets compliance knowledge and expertise, coupled with outstanding collaboration qualities.
• This role necessitates a flexibility to also support the wider compliance department with activities outside of the listed responsibilities.
• What you ll do
• Providing compliance advice and training to the EMEA investment personnel on their activities; including managing the flow of live trading queries and responding in a timely risk-based fashion.
• Lead Control Room activity in the EMEA region, including wall crosses, market soundings, MNPI and confidential information control, as well as related policy and procedure development.
• Engage in the review of, and input into the approval for new investment instruments, products, strategies, technology, models, trading venues, and trading activities in the EMEA region.
• Act as compliance SME as needed for relevant business change initiatives in the EMEA region.
• Act as first line response for exchange and regulator queries related to EMEA market activity.
• Support and preparation of relevant business coverage for formal examinations.
• Track and lead regulatory change initiatives connected to relevant market structure and investment related regulatory change in the EMEA region.
• Support the wider Global Markets Advisory team and Compliance department as needed.
• What you ll bring
• What you need:
• Bachelor s degree.
• 7 years relevant experience.
• Highly self-motivated, organized, and attentive to detail.
• Strong technical knowledge covering market structure and related regulations in EMEA region.
• Structured, methodical and consistent in execution.
• Adaptable and open to change, a natural problem solver and lateral thinker.
• Comfortable with technology, systems and process orientated.
• Calm and concise communicator, collaborative and able to engage well with staff of varying roles and seniority.
• Firm and team first in thinking.
• We d love if you had:
• Experience in maintaining control room restrictions and approving various deals for multiple investment teams.
• Prior experience operating in the Compliance front office investment advisory capacity.
• Experience of adopting workflow management toolkits and new technologies.
• Project management skills, and experience working with Confluence, JIRA and various AI models.
• A strong Compliance network in London/Dubai.
• Familiarity with the multi-manager hedge fund model.

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