Head of Risk and Compliance

Location: Middle East

Salary: Flexible

Executive Headhunters' client is a Government organisation under the Ministry of Finance. It is a Government backed investment fund set up nearly 30 years ago. They were established to manage the investments of the reserves of the Sultanate of this Middle East location.

They are now looking for a Head of Risk and Compliance to join their team.

This is a new position and will gradually build a team.

The main focus of the role will be to develop and implement a vision and strategy for Risk and Compliance management. This will involve defining and maintaining a central repository of risk management and compliance manuals and establishing an active research processes to ensure the repository is current and relevant, conducting stress testing on the investment portfolio and acting as the focal point in dissemination of rules and regulations to all staff and monitoring compliance to these rules.

So they need someone with experience of:

International markets including European or US capital markets

Risk management and compliance principles

Risk assessments of portfolios of investment institutions/banks

Investment institutions regulations pertaining to accounting, auditing and regulatory reporting/compliance

This is a fantastic organisation to work for as it is a Sovereign Fund, with exposure to various types of Investments

There will be:

Unique exposure to a different culture

Free Accommodation

Brilliant opportunity to make your mark on an organisation that is looking to grow

Family orientated

Better lifestyle in comparison to many other countries

Exceptional salary package which is tax free