MARYAM's CV
MARYAM ALMHEIRI
COMPLIANCE OFFICER
Profile summary
Skilled Compliance Officer with 6 years of experience specializing in AML/CFT compliance and regulatory governance. Conducts KYC, CDD, and Enhanced Due Diligence for individual and corporate clients while performing sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screenings to mitigate financial crime risks. Prepares risk-based compliance assessments and recommendations for senior management to support informed decisions. Committed to maintaining robust internal controls and efficient client onboarding processes across 2 organizations.
Career highlights
Client Onboarding and Due Diligence: Conducted KYC, CDD, and Enhanced Due Diligence for individual and corporate clients while assessing source of funds and wealth to support onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
Financial Crime Risk Screening: Performed sanctions, PEP, adverse media, and World Check screenings to identify financial crime risks and escalated suspicious activities to the MLRO for internal investigations.
Compliance Assessment and Management: Prepared compliance assessments and recommendations for senior management to support informed risk based decisions while reviewing customer documentation against regulatory requirements.
Control Enhancement and Collaboration: Collaborated with cross functional teams to strengthen compliance controls while maintaining an efficient client onboarding process and conducting periodic reviews.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs regulatory adherence and financial crime risk mitigation, overseeing client onboarding controls and risk profiling for individual and corporate accounts since 2020. Evaluates customer documentation against internal policies, manages periodic verification cycles, and escalates complex risk items to leadership.
- Executes enhanced due diligence and screening reviews using World-Check to identify and mitigate financial crime risks.
- Assesses source of funds and wealth profiles to support onboarding decisions for corporate and individual clients.
- Prepares compliance assessments and recommendations for senior management to support risk-based decisions.
- Escalates suspicious activities to the money laundering reporting officer and supports internal investigations.
Directs regulatory adherence and financial crime risk mitigation frameworks for individual and corporate client portfolios. Evaluates client risk profiles, source of funds documentation, and customer records to maintain alignment with applicable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing mandates.
- Executes sanctions, politically exposed person, adverse media, and World-Check screenings to identify financial crime risks.
- Prepares compliance assessments and recommendations for senior management to support risk-based onboarding decisions.
- Escalates suspicious activities to the money laundering reporting officer and supports internal investigations.
Education
American Curriculum
Skills & abilities
- AML/CFT Compliance
- KYC, CDD & Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
- Sanctions, PEP & Adverse Media Screening
- Risk Assessment & Risk-Based Approach
- Regulatory Compliance & Governance
- Financial Crime Prevention
- Ongoing Monitoring & Transaction Reviews
- Source of Funds (SOF) & Source of Wealth (SOW)
- Regulatory Reporting & Documentation
- Compliance Investigations
- Internal Controls & Policy Implementation
- Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration Language
- Arabic (Fluent)
- English (Fluent)
Languages
Arabic · Fluent
English · Fluent