Job description

AML Transaction Monitoring Ops – Builders Program role within Tamara’s Compliance team in Saudi Arabia focused on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) operations. The role is responsible for performing daily transaction monitoring activities using transaction monitoring systems (TMS) to detect unusual or suspicious financial activity, ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements. It involves reviewing alerts generated by AML systems, investigating suspicious patterns, documenting findings, and escalating cases to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) or Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) submission to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). The role includes customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD) activities, ensuring proper Know Your Customer (KYC) documentation and assessing risk for high-risk customers, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), and adverse media matches. Additionally, the position involves sanctions screening of customers and counterparties, validating potential matches, and ensuring compliance with sanctions regulations. The role supports tuning and optimization of transaction monitoring rules to reduce false positives and improve detection efficiency. It requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, regulatory knowledge, and the ability to collaborate across compliance, risk, and operations teams while contributing to training, awareness, and continuous improvement of AML control frameworks.