Compliance Officer

Pennell Hart are a Legal & Compliance Executive Search firm, recruiting professionals across the UAE. Our client is a Dubai based, leading commodities trading group who are seeking a Compliance Officer to own its operational compliance framework for counterparties and subsidiaries. This is a hands-on counterparty-risk role and would not suit a purely banking, AML/MLRO, or investigations specialist. The role: • Manage end-to-end corporate KYC/KYB and onboarding of customers, suppliers, agents and trading counterparties • Own sanctions, PEP, adverse-media and vessel screening (IMO-based checks) through the Group's monitoring system • Lead enhanced due diligence on high-risk counterparties and coordinate inbound DD requests from banks, lenders, investors and partners • Prepare lender and investor compliance packs for financing and stake-acquisition transactions • Oversee compliance execution across subsidiaries and manage a network of Compliance Champions • Report to the Compliance Manager & Group Head of Compliance What they're looking for: • Minimum 5 years' relevant compliance/counterparty due-diligence/sanctions-screening experience, ideally within commodity trading, energy trading, agricultural commodities, or shipping/chartering • Strong corporate KYC/KYB and ownership-structure analysis skills • Familiarity with sanctions/vessel-screening platforms (e.g. Compliance monitoring systems, Orbis or equivalent) • Arabic language capability preferred; experience supporting operations across Africa a plus Apply now for immediate consideration. Show more Show less

Minimum 5 years' relevant compliance/counterparty due-diligence/sanctions-screening experience, ideally within commodity trading, energy trading, agricultural commodities, or shipping/chartering; Strong corporate KYC/KYB and ownership-structure analysis skills; Familiarity with sanctions/vessel-screening platforms (e.g. Compliance monitoring systems, Orbis or equivalent); Arabic language capability preferred; experience supporting operations across Africa a plus

Manage end-to-end corporate KYC/KYB and onboarding of customers, suppliers, agents and trading counterparties; Own sanctions, PEP, adverse-media and vessel screening (IMO-based checks) through the Group's monitoring system; Lead enhanced due diligence on high-risk counterparties and coordinate inbound DD requests from banks, lenders, investors and partners; Prepare lender and investor compliance packs for financing and stake-acquisition transactions; Oversee compliance execution across subsidiaries and manage a network of Compliance Champions; Report to the Compliance Manager & Group Head of Compliance