Senior Risk Strategy Manager （ME）
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PingPong Payments seeks a Senior Risk Strategy Manager for the Middle East to design end-to-end risk control frameworks for new products and markets. The role requires 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime at a payments, fintech, or banking institution with cross-border experience.
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Responsibilities
- Design end to end risk control frameworks for new products, markets, and client segments — onboarding, inbound and outbound transaction monitoring, limits, and review triggers
- Translate local regulatory requirements and market practice into proportionate controls
- Produce clear, audit ready documentation — control frameworks, risk assessments, verification frameworks, and policy
- Partner with commercial, compliance, operations, and HQ to land solutions and clear blockers
- Localise HQ frameworks to ME market reality and own solutioning across live and new markets
Requirements
- 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime at a payments, fintech, or banking institution; cross border experience strongly preferred
- Deep working knowledge of local market practice, documentation norms, and financial crime typologies in the region
- Strong risk solutioning — able to design proportionate controls, not only flag risk
- Excellent written documentation in clear English — frameworks, policy, and risk assessments
- Comfortable operating across commercial and compliance functions; pragmatic and business enabling
- Compliance or financial crime background welcome
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Summary
- Design end to end risk control frameworks for new products, markets, and client segments — onboarding, inbound and outbound transaction monitoring, limits, and review triggers.
- Translate local regulatory requirements and market practice into proportionate controls.
- Produce clear, audit ready documentation — control frameworks, risk assessments, verification frameworks, and policy.
- Partner with commercial, compliance, operations, and HQ to land solutions and clear blockers.
- Localise HQ frameworks to ME market reality and own solutioning across live and new markets.
Core requirement
- 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime at a payments, fintech, or banking institution; cross border experience strongly preferred.
- Deep working knowledge of local market practice, documentation norms, and financial crime typologies in the region.
- Strong risk solutioning — able to design proportionate controls, not only flag risk.
- Excellent written documentation in clear English — frameworks, policy, and risk assessments.
- Comfortable operating across commercial and compliance functions; pragmatic and business enabling.
- Compliance or financial crime background welcome.
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