Head of Compliance​/MLRO

Head of Compliance / MLRO

Job type:
Full Time
· Department:
Legal & Compliance
· Work type:
On‑Site

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Global payments are not broken. Incentives are. Clearing has been deprioritised inside balance sheet driven institutions whose models rely on lending and interest. When liquidity takes priority over settlement, payments slow and certainty drops. The same financial institutions that distort clearing as providers are disadvantaged as users. They are forced into fragmented setups, inconsistent rails, duplicated compliance, and unpredictable timelines. Stablecoin shortcuts and treasury pooling treat symptoms at the surface, but almost no one is rebuilding the underlying infrastructure in each market.

We are rebuilding clearing as its own specialist function. We act as a clearing and transaction banking partner for regulated institutions, with treasury built into the core so liquidity, settlement, and reconciliation sit in one controlled system.

Joining Lorum means contributing to one of the most ambitious clearing infrastructure projects in global finance. You will help shape settlement systems that perform under real regulatory standards and institutional volumes. You will build for regulated institutions that rely on precision, predictable timelines, and regulatory integrity. It is about working across currencies, markets, and supervisory frameworks to deliver reliable, final settlement.

Lorum is seeking to appoint a senior Head of Compliance & MLRO for its Dubai-based regulated entity. This is a senior control role with responsibility for leading the entity’s compliance and financial crime framework and ensuring that it remains effective, proportionate and aligned with applicable regulatory requirements.

At the same time, the role is an important part of the wider Lorum Group governance model and will play a central role in embedding the Dubai entity’s compliance framework within the broader group framework, policies, standards and control environment.

The role is based in Dubai and serves as the senior compliance and financial crime lead for the Dubai entity. The role will work in close partnership with the Group Chief Legal, Risk and Compliance Officer and within the broader Lorum Group governance framework, while maintaining direct access to local senior management and governance bodies on all material compliance and financial crime matters.

This role therefore requires a candidate who can operate effectively in a group‑led governance environment, contribute to the consistent implementation of group standards and frameworks, and at the same time ensure that the Dubai entity maintains a strong, credible and effective local compliance function.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Group Chief Legal, Risk and Compliance Officer and relevant group stakeholders to ensure strong alignment with the group’s overall governance, risk and compliance architecture, while maintaining clear responsibility for the effectiveness of the local compliance and AML framework. The role requires a senior professional who combines sound regulatory judgement, practical execution and the credibility to operate effectively across both local entity and group structures.

Lead and oversee the compliance and financial crime framework for the Dubai entity, ensuring that policies, procedures, controls and governance arrangements remain effective and appropriate to the nature, scale and complexity of the business; act as the senior compliance lead and MLRO for the entity, subject to any required regulatory approvals; ensure that the Dubai entity’s compliance framework is fully embedded within the wider Lorum Group governance and control framework, with appropriate alignment to group policies, standards, methodologies and reporting.

• Work closely with the Group Chief Legal, Risk and Compliance Officer to support the implementation of group‑wide compliance, risk and governance initiatives within the Dubai entity
• Advise local management and relevant group stakeholders on regulatory obligations,…