Senior Manager, Compliance Policies
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About the Role
Astra Tech seeks an experienced Senior Manager to lead Compliance policy development and governance. The role involves translating UAE regulations into clear policy frameworks, managing policy lifecycle, and engaging stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Group wide Compliance policies and frameworks aligned with CBUAE and G42 requirements
- Translate complex regulatory obligations into clear, enforceable policy documents
- Manage policy repository, version control, and review cycles
- Translate policies into detailed operating procedures with controls and risk criteria
- Monitor regulatory developments and prepare impact assessments
- Manage policy approval and sign off process with senior stakeholders
- Develop policy communications and deliver training materials
Requirements
- Experienced and detail oriented Compliance professional
- Deep regulatory knowledge, acumen, and experience
- Exceptional writing skills
- UAE regulatory knowledge
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Role Summary
- The Senior Manager Policies is an experienced and detail oriented Compliance professional who leads the development, implementation and governance of Compliance frameworks, policies and procedures pertaining to all applicable regulatory obligations, at group level.
- Sitting within Group Compliance and reporting to the Head of Compliance Strategy & Transformation, this is a critical role in the delivery of Group Compliance transformation agenda, translating UAE regulations as well as G42 guidelines into clear, practical and enforceable policy frameworks.
- This role requires deep regulatory knowledge, acumen, and experience, combined with exceptional writing skills, to produce, present and manage policy and procedural documentation that is both regulator ready and operationally meaningful.
Responsibilities
- Develop/ support to develop Group wide Compliance policies and frameworks, ensuring full alignment with CBUAE regulatory requirements, applicable UAE legislation and G42 requirements.
- Translate complex regulatory obligations into clear, well structured and enforceable policy documents.
- Maintain the policy repository, ensuring all documents are version controlled, accurately dated, properly approved and accessible across the organisation.
- Establish and manage a policy review cycle, proactively identifying policies requiring periodic reviews as well as ad hoc updates.
- Ensure correct mapping of reference policies within each document, and consistent requirements across the board.
- Ensure consistency of language, structure and standards across all Compliance policy documentation.
- Translate/ support to translate Group Compliance policies and frameworks into detailed, fit for purpose, operationally sustainable and well documented operating procedures.
- Ensure procedures are clearly mapped to their underlying policy and regulatory obligations.
- Identify gaps between existing procedures and Compliance policies, as well as current regulatory expectations, and lead remediation efforts.
- Monitor regulatory developments issued by the CBUAE and other relevant UAE authorities, assessing their impact on existing Compliance policies and procedures.
- Prepare clear, well structured regulatory change impact assessments and present findings and recommendations to the Head of Compliance Strategy & Transformation.
- Support the Regulatory Compliance Unit in responding to regulatory consultations, examinations and thematic reviews.
Qualifications
- Experienced and detail oriented Compliance professional.
- Deep regulatory knowledge, acumen, and experience.
- Exceptional writing skills.
- UAE regulatory knowledge.
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