Manager, FCC Quality Assurance - Compliance
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About the Role
United Arab Bank seeks a Manager for FCC Quality Assurance to lead risk-based reviews across financial crime compliance processes. The role requires 5-8 years of experience in FCC, compliance testing, or related control functions, with a bachelor's degree and professional certifications preferred.
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Responsibilities
- Support the development, implementation, and enhancement of the FCC Quality Assurance framework, methodology, procedures, governance standards, and review approaches
- Support the development of the annual FCC Quality Assurance plan using a risk based approach
- Conduct risk based QA reviews across FCC operational areas including customer onboarding, KYC/CDD, EDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and STR processes
- Assess adherence to UAE AML/CFT laws, CBUAE regulations, FATF recommendations, and internal FCC policies
- Identify control weaknesses, procedural gaps, documentation deficiencies, governance weaknesses, and inconsistencies in FCC processes
- Perform thematic reviews and root cause analysis to identify recurring issues, trends, and emerging risks
- Support remediation tracking, validation, and closure assessment activities
- Identify opportunities to strengthen FCC controls, QA methodologies, and governance processes
- Prepare clear, concise, and risk focused QA observations, reports, dashboards, and management summaries
- Escalate material findings, control weaknesses, regulatory concerns, and governance issues to the Unit Head
- Support regulatory examinations, internal audit reviews, and management information requests related to FCC QA activities
- Maintain appropriate documentation, evidence repositories and audit trails supporting QA reviews and conclusions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a relevant discipline
- Minimum 5 8 years of experience within Financial Crime Compliance, compliance testing, QA, transaction monitoring, FCC analytics, internal audit, or related control functions
- Professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA, CFE are preferred
- Experience within UAE banking, consulting or advisory sector preferred
- Experience with FCC systems, transaction monitoring systems, sanctions screening systems, or management information reporting preferred
- Experience in conducting QA reviews, thematic analysis, trend analysis, or FCC reporting activities preferred
- Effective communication skills in English
- Arabic language proficiency would be an added advantage
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Job Brief
- To support the independent Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Quality Assurance function through the execution of risk based quality assurance reviews across key FCC processes, including customer onboarding, KYC/CDD, Enhanced due diligence (EDD), transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspic
- The role is responsible for assessing adherence to regulatory requirements, internal policies, procedures, and established FCC control standards, while identifying areas requiring enhancement and supporting continuous improvement across the FCC control environment.
- The role operates independently from operational processes under review and supports the strengthening of the overall FCC governance and control framework through QA reviews, thematic assessments, root cause analysis, and remediation validation activities.
Responsibilities
- Support the development, implementation, and enhancement of the FCC Quality Assurance framework, methodology, procedures, governance standards, and review approaches.
- Participate in the enhancement of FCC QA methodologies, QA scorecards, sampling approaches, QA procedures, and FCC regulatory gap assessment review approaches.
- Support the development of the annual FCC Quality Assurance plan using a risk based approach, considering regulatory expectations, enterprise wide FCC risk assessment outcomes, internal audit observations, regulatory findings, emerging risks, and operational risk indicators.
- Conduct risk based QA reviews across FCC operational areas, including customer onboarding and KYC/CDD reviews, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), periodic review activities, transaction monitoring investigations, sanctions screening reviews, STR/SAR escalation and reporting processes, sanctions and watch
- Assess adherence to UAE AML/CFT laws and cabinet decisions, CBUAE regulations and guidance, FATF recommendations, and internal FCC policies and procedures.
- Identify control weakness, procedural gaps, documentation deficiencies, governance weaknesses, and inconsistencies in FCC review and investigation processes.
- Perform thematic reviews and root cause analysis to identify recurring issues, trends, emerging risks, and areas requiring process enhancement.
- Support remediation tracking, remediation validation, and closure assessment activities to ensure identified issues are appropriately addressed within agreed timelines.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen FCC controls, QA methodologies, governance processes, and review practices through thematic analysis, lessons learned, and emerging regulatory expectations.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives relating to QA frameworks, reporting capabilities, review approaches, automation opportunities, and control enhancement.
- Prepare clear, concise, and risk focused QA observations, reports, dashboards, and management summaries for review by senior management.
- Escalate material findings, control weaknesses, regulatory concerns, and governance issues to the Unit Head – FCC Quality Assurance.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a relevant discipline.
- Professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA, CFE are preferred.
- Minimum 5 – 8 years of experience within Financial Crime Compliance, compliance testing, QA, transaction monitoring, FCC analytics, internal audit, or related control functions.
- Experience within UAE banking, consulting or advisory sector preferred.
- Experience with FCC systems, transaction monitoring systems, sanctions screening systems, or management information reporting preferred.
- Experience in conducting QA reviews, thematic analysis, trend analysis, or FCC reporting activities preferred.
- Effective communication skills in English. Arabic language proficiency would be an added advantage.
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