Hiring for AML Manager (Crypto) UAE

The Desired candidate will lead the charge against financial crime and champion regulatory excellence. As our AML Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and steering a high-performing Compliance Operations team, committed to protecting our business from money laundering and terrorist financing threats. Your expertise will help safeguard our clients, reinforce our operations, and keep us ahead of emerging financial crime risks in a fast-moving regulatory environment. As an AI-first company, you’ll have access to cutting-edge tools and technologies designed to enhance decision-making, streamline investigations, and proactively detect financial crime risks.

Skills

● Bring 8+ years of experience in anti-money laundering (AML), regulatory compliance, or risk management—including hands-on work with virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and crypto-related compliance.

● Hold a degree in law, risk management, criminology, finance, or a related area.

● Have comprehensive knowledge of fraud detection, AML/CFT regulations, and crypto-specific industry trends and red flags.

● Confidently conduct thorough KYC, KYT, CDD, EDD, and SOF/SOW checks, especially in relation to crypto and high-value transactions.

● Are skilled in using compliance systems, databases, blockchain analytics, and risk scoring tools.

● Have experience screening clients and crypto wallets against PEP lists, global sanctions, and adverse online activity.

● Demonstrate strong analytical ability with both qualitative and quantitative data, and proficiency in Excel or big data tools.

● Communicate clearly and professionally in written and spoken English.

● Value integrity, teamwork, and a proactive approach in a fast-paced fintech or crypto setting

Hiring for Sanctions Risk Specialist – Dubai

Roles & Responsibilities

Description

Amazon seeks an experienced investigator to be part of a centralized Denied Party Screening team (DPS).

Amazon has a diverse set of global businesses, and each business has some level of compliance requirements across multiple areas, including Sellers, Retail, Trade, Human Resources, Tax, Social Responsibility, and others. While the responsibility for maintaining compliance is with the individual business areas, this team will ensure that an effective compliance program is in place to validate each business has identified their regulatory responsibilities and established effective processes, controls and self-testing to understand current status of compliance and identify gaps.

The Sanctions Risk Specialist position focuses on accomplishing production goals and will work closely with the Operations Management Team in DPS. Individual problem-solving and analytical skills are used to authenticate and make determinations on customers and complex transactions and accounts. Nearly all decisions are expected to be made independently and with a high degree of accuracy following standard operating procedures (SOP’s).

This position performs a 1st level review function of escalation decisions from the screening system, assists with responding to audits and outside inquiries, offers guidance, feedback and support for investigators and other operations team members working in denied entities/lists and Sanctions compliance investigations. The position will help the business comply with applicable OFAC and other agencies laws and regulations, investigate and mitigate risk, and adhere to company policies and procedures.

Key job responsibilities

Investigate denied entities/lists and sanctions potential matches that arise from Amazon’s screening solution to support various business units.

Participate in ongoing customer due diligence and KYC.

Assist in identifying gaps and training opportunities for escalations that come through the operations and compliance workflows.

Drive operational metrics reconciliation with the DPS leadership.

Analyze guidance and help identify remediations for identified gaps.

Consistently meet set goals and KPIs.

Basic Qualifications

– Experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround, or experience managing multiple calendars

– Experience handling confidential information

– Bachelor’s degree is a must to apply for this position. Advanced working knowledge of MS Office Suite; in particular, Advanced Excel skills.

– Excellent written and spoken communication skills in Arabic and English languages are mandatory.

– Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues concisely and clearly to both internal and external customers.

– Effective work time prioritization to ensure productivity and utilization.

– 3+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience

Preferred Qualifications

– Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities

– Experience working with global cross-functional teams

– Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes

– CAMS certification

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Desired Candidate Profile

Experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround, or experience managing multiple calendarsbr

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