Job Overview
Senior KYC Specialist – Digital Banking Compliance
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent
Industry: FinTech | Digital Banking | Financial Crime Prevention | Compliance
Protect the Integrity of Digital Banking Through World-Class Customer Due Diligence
As financial technology continues to reshape global commerce, maintaining trust begins with knowing every customer. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior KYC Specialist to strengthen customer onboarding, due diligence, and identity verification across an advanced digital banking ecosystem serving retail, commercial, and institutional clients throughout the Gulf region.
This role offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of financial crime prevention, collaborating with compliance professionals, fraud investigators, cybersecurity experts, risk managers, legal advisors, product teams, and digital identity specialists to ensure every customer relationship is established with accuracy, transparency, and regulatory excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive Know Your Customer (KYC) reviews for individual and corporate clients.
- Perform customer identification, verification, and onboarding assessments.
- Complete enhanced due diligence for higher-risk customer relationships.
- Review beneficial ownership structures and complex corporate documentation.
- Assess customer risk profiles using internal compliance frameworks.
- Investigate onboarding exceptions and resolve documentation deficiencies.
- Collaborate with fraud prevention and transaction monitoring teams.
- Maintain accurate compliance records and audit-ready documentation.
- Support internal compliance reviews and regulatory examinations.
- Monitor regulatory developments impacting customer onboarding processes.
- Recommend process improvements to strengthen operational efficiency and customer experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline.
- Experience in KYC, customer due diligence, compliance, or financial crime prevention within fintech or banking.
- Strong analytical, investigative, and documentation skills.
- Familiarity with digital onboarding technologies and identity verification platforms.
- Professional certifications in compliance or financial crime are advantageous.
Why Join
- Help safeguard one of the Gulf’s most innovative digital banking environments.
- Collaborate with international compliance and technology professionals.
- Access continuous professional development and specialist certifications.
- Excellent career progression into Compliance Management, Financial Crime, or Regulatory Advisory.
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