Hiring for Senior Risk Analyst – Dubai
Roles & Responsibilities
As a Senior Risk Analyst you will be responsible for:
- Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Python, Looker, Excel, Big Query) to analyze transactional data.
- Conduct in-depth investigations of flagged transactions and merchants to determine the validity of the alerts, enforce and prepare internal reporting.
- Identify patterns and trends that may indicate suspicious activities, such as money laundering, fraud, or terrorist financing.
- Initiate proactive investigations according to internal processes, market trends, proactive research or any other red flags.
- Document findings and prepare detailed investigation reports.
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive records of all investigations.
- Apply analytic techniques to complex cases to make logical and supported recommendations.
- Monitor and escalate anomalies or material issues to the Transaction Monitoring Team Lead.
- Report suspicious activities to relevant authorities in compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Ensure investigations adhere to internal policies and procedures, as well as external regulatory requirements (e.g., AML, KYC, OFAC).
- Work closely with Compliance and Risk to address and resolve issues.
- Communicate findings and provide recommendations to senior management.
- Identify opportunities to improve transaction monitoring processes and systems.