About this role
About Us
Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others.
Your role
The Regulatory Compliance Lead supports the Head of Compliance in managing and implementing the annual Compliance Programme at Tamara, a finance company licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE). Reporting directly to the Head of Compliance, the role conducts risk-based compliance reviews and monitoring across the company’s departments, manages regulatory change, and supports the company’s engagement with the CBUAE, including supervisory inspections, Requests for Information (RFIs), and regulatory reporting.
This is a mid-level position, candidates should have 5–8 years of regulatory compliance experience gained within a regulated financial institution, fintech, finance company, bank, payment service provider, or similar environment, with demonstrated experience engaging with the CBUAE in a comparable regulatory compliance role.
Your responsibilities
Compliance Programme, reviews & monitoring:
• Support the Head of Compliance in managing and implementing the company’s annual Compliance Programme.
• Conduct risk-based compliance reviews, monitoring activities, thematic reviews, and inspections across the company’s departments.
• Assess departmental compliance against applicable CBUAE regulations, standards, notices, and supervisory expectations, including the CBUAE Consumer Protection Standards, market conduct and conduct risk requirements, regulatory disclosure and customer communication requirements, product governance and customer treatment requirements, and other applicable CBUAE regulatory obligations.
• Document compliance review methodologies, testing procedures, findings, supporting evidence, identified gaps, and remediation actions.
• Prepare compliance inspection reports and agree appropriate remediation measures, owners, and implementation timelines with the relevant departments.
• Maintain the company’s compliance monitoring plan, obligations register, issue tracker, and remediation follow-up process.
Regulatory change & CBUAE engagement:
• Maintain the CBUAE Regulatory Notice Register and assess the applicability and impact of new regulatory notices, circulars, standards, and guidance.
• Coordinate the internal implementation of new or amended regulatory requirements and monitor completion by the relevant business owners.
• Support regulatory engagement with the CBUAE, including supervisory inspections and examinations, RFIs and related submissions, regulatory walkt