Compliance and Risk Manager – Muscat

Full time in Risk & Compliance Management
  • Muscat, Muscat, Oman
  • Post Date : January 6, 2026

Job Detail

  • Job ID 45620
  • Career Level  Mid-Level Professional
  • Experience  5- 7 Years
  • Minimum Qualifications  Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

  • Establishing policies and procedures to interpret laws, regulations, Guidelines into the business and providing advice.
  • Developing robust and sustainable AML control framework.
  • Conducting monitoring for potential money laundering and other breaches of conduct of business regulations.
  • Establishing and maintaining accreditation and KYC procedures.
  • Mandatory regulatory report filings.
  • Managing regulatory inspections and relationship with regulators.
  • Identifying new regulatory developments and reviewing their impact on business.
  • Provide training and support to management and employees on how to fulfil their regulatory duties.
  • Assisting management in enforcing country regulations and Group policy.
  • Overseeing that POS tools and equipment are functional and compliant.
  • Delivering Compliance Management reports and board reports.
  • Overseeing Financial Statutory and regulatory reports are submitted within required deadline.
  • Ensuring that the business and products are fully licensed and undertake license renewal where required.
  • Receive Internal Suspicious Activity reports from employees and analyse them to take appropriate decisions to report to FIU.
  • Cooperate with and provide the FID with all information it requires for fulfilling their obligations.
  • Develop and execute AML/CFT training programs considering all relevant risks of ML/FT and financing illicit organizations including the ways/means for addressing them.
  • Provide necessary reports to the Board of Directors and Compliance Committee on all AML/CFT issues, on a quarterly basis at a minimum.
  • Arrange to retain all necessary supporting documents for transactions, KYC, monitoring, suspicious transaction reporting and AML training for the minimum period for record retention.
  • Conduct regular gap analysis between the Licensed Person’s existing AML/CFT Procedures and current Laws, Regulations, Notices and the Standards of the Oman in order to determine the extent of the Licensed Person’s level of compliance.
  • Ensure day-to-day compliance of the business against internal AML/CFT policies and procedures.

Desired Candidate Profile

  • A minimum of eight (8) years of experience in AML/CFT compliance, audit or risk management within any financial institution
  • A minimum of five (5) years of experience in AML/CFT compliance, audit or risk management within any financial institution and possess a specific certification related to AML/CFT compliance.
  • Examples of specific certifications related to AML/CFT compliance includes ACFCS, CFE, ICA Diplomas, CAMS or any other certification associated with financial crime control or AML/CFT compliance which is acceptable to the Central Bank.

Required skills

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