Job Overview
Executive Head of AI-Driven Compliance & Fraud Intelligence
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Fintech | Artificial Intelligence | Regulatory Technology | Financial Crime Prevention
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Model: Executive Leadership | Enterprise Risk Transformation
Role Overview
A major fintech transformation platform in Riyadh is seeking a highly strategic Executive Head of AI-Driven Compliance & Fraud Intelligence to lead the modernization of enterprise-wide financial crime prevention, intelligent compliance systems, and advanced transaction surveillance architecture.
This is a high-impact leadership role for a senior fintech executive with extensive expertise in AML modernization, fraud analytics, sanctions intelligence, behavioral transaction monitoring, machine learning governance, and enterprise regulatory technology infrastructure.
The successful candidate will shape the institution’s intelligent compliance future—building scalable systems that protect financial ecosystems while enabling business growth, customer trust, and board-level governance excellence.
This role offers direct influence across executive strategy, regulatory relationships, digital trust frameworks, and financial integrity programs at the highest level.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise strategy for AI-powered fraud prevention, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspicious activity detection systems
- Build predictive intelligence frameworks for anomaly detection, financial crime prevention, behavioral analytics, and transaction risk scoring
- Oversee modernization of AML platforms, fraud investigation systems, case management workflows, and regulatory reporting infrastructure
- Develop machine learning governance models for transparency, auditability, and regulator-ready compliance assurance
- Collaborate with regulators, audit teams, compliance leadership, and executive governance committees
- Improve monitoring across payments, digital wallets, cross-border transfers, institutional transaction flows, and onboarding channels
- Build executive intelligence dashboards for board-level visibility into fraud exposure, transaction integrity, and compliance health
- Lead partnerships across cybersecurity, legal, operations, data science, and product divisions
- Strengthen onboarding controls, identity verification systems, and customer trust architecture
- Drive long-term innovation strategies for scalable RegTech infrastructure and intelligent enterprise compliance systems
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Risk Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Financial Technology, or related discipline
- Minimum 9+ years of senior leadership experience within fintech compliance, fraud intelligence, AML operations, or regulatory technology
- Proven expertise in AI-driven financial crime prevention systems and enterprise transaction surveillance
- Deep knowledge of machine learning applications within fraud detection and compliance ecosystems
- Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks, governance structures, and board-level reporting expectations
- Experience leading complex enterprise compliance transformation programs
- Excellent executive communication and institutional stakeholder management skills
- Professional certifications in fraud, compliance, AML, or risk management strongly preferred
Preferred Expertise
- AI-powered AML infrastructure
- Predictive fraud intelligence systems
- Transaction anomaly detection
- Digital identity and onboarding intelligence
- Enterprise sanctions compliance
- Behavioral financial surveillance
- RegTech platform modernization
- Executive financial crime governance
Compensation & Benefits
- Highly competitive executive compensation
- Annual leadership and innovation bonus
- Housing and expatriate support
- Family medical insurance and executive benefits
- Strategic leadership development pathway
- Participation in national financial transformation initiatives
- Regional and global fintech leadership exposure
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