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Capitex

Specializes in rapid FCC staffing solutions

Financial Crime Compliance PMO Manager / Senior Manager

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDubai - United Arab EmiratesNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong experience managing complex Financial Crime Compliance or regulatory change programmes within a banking or regulated environment.
  • Solid understanding of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, Financial Crime Compliance frameworks, and regulatory remediation expectations.
  • Proven project management office and governance expertise, including RAID management and senior stakeholder reporting.
  • Experience working with regulators and supporting supervisory actions and audits.

Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end delivery of Financial Crime Compliance projects, programmes, supervisory actions, and management commitments.
  • Establish and maintain project management office governance frameworks for Financial Crime Compliance initiatives, including project plans, milestones, dependencies, and risk registers.
  • Ensure adherence to the bank’s project management standards and regulatory change governance requirements.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, RAID logs, and delivery dashboards across multiple Financial Crime Compliance workstreams.
  • Monitor progress against milestones, budgets, and resource plans; proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks and delays.
  • Produce senior management, steering committee, and regulatory reporting, including status updates, key issues, and delivery risks.
  • Track and evidence closure of regulatory findings, management actions, and remediation items required for Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates validation.
  • Coordinate the preparation of regulatory responses, progress updates, remediation evidence packs, and attestations.
  • Act as the central coordination point between Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, IT, Operations, Risk, Internal Audit, and Business teams.
  • Manage interdependencies across multiple workstreams, including policy, process, technology, data, and people.
  • Support the management of external vendors and consultants delivering Financial Crime Compliance initiatives.
  • Manage scope changes, prioritisation decisions, and delivery trade-offs in line with regulatory deadlines and the bank’s risk appetite.
  • Ensure all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and are suitable for regulatory scrutiny.
  • Support internal quality assurance, independent testing, and audit reviews of Financial Crime Compliance programmes.
  • Maintain comprehensive project documentation, audit trails, and evidence repositories.
  • Support Financial Crime Compliance steering committees, regulatory forums, and senior management meetings, including agenda preparation and action tracking.

About the Company

Capitex

Specializes in rapid FCC staffing solutions

Capitex Global provides staffing and recruitment services focused exclusively on financial crime compliance (FCC). Its offerings include Rapid Response Teams that deploy interim specialists within days to handle surges and remediation, Executive Search for discreet global permanent hires, and an Early Careers Programme to train and place emerging FCC professionals. Clients are banks, fintechs, and regulated firms, and Capitex supports them by providing pre-vetted talent across AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud, and ABAC, with deployments often in 24–48 hours. The goal is to help financial institutions scale their compliance functions quickly and effectively to meet regulatory requirements and manage financial crime risk.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2021

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