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<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. We are hiring an accounts payable and receivable officer to own the company's payment cycle and receivables management from day one.</p>
<p>What the role covers</p>
<ul>
<li>Processing supplier invoices: receipt, coding, verification against purchase orders and contracts, and preparation of payment runs for approval</li>
<li>Maintaining supplier master data and bank details, with appropriate fraud controls</li>
<li>Processing employee expense claims and reconciling corporate travel agency invoices and card statements</li>
<li>Preparing and issuing customer invoices, recording receipts, and monitoring overdue balances</li>
<li>Daily bank account reconciliation and petty cash and corporate card record maintenance</li>
<li>Applying payment controls including segregation of duties and dual authorisation</li>
<li>Identifying and escalating anomalous transactions without delay</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements</p>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least five years in an accounts payable, accounts receivable, or general accounting role</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience operating end-to-end AP and AR processes</li>
<li>Familiarity with corporate banking platforms and payment controls</li>
<li>Working knowledge of Omani VAT</li>
<li>Fluent in English; working Arabic preferred</li>
<li>A part-qualification or accounting technician qualification is an advantage</li>
<li>Experience in a regulated financial services entity or a start-up environment is also an advantage</li>
</ul>
<p>What this is</p>
<p>This is a founding-team role at an institution under construction. The processes, systems, and controls are being built now, and the person in this role will help shape them. If you want to own your function properly from the start, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>
A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. We are hiring an HR Operations Officer to own the day-to-day execution of HR processes across the full employee lifecycle: onboarding, payroll, benefits, records, policy, and recruitment administration.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Preparing employment contracts and offer letters; managing new joiner onboarding including documentation, induction logistics, and system access coordination</li>
<li>Coordinating with the PRO on visa and labour clearance for new joiners</li>
<li>Monthly payroll administration in conjunction with the outsourced payroll provider; maintaining accurate compensation records</li>
<li>Administering medical insurance, life insurance, and other employee benefits</li>
<li>Maintaining complete and accurate personnel files in line with Omani Labour Law and data protection requirements</li>
<li>Serving as first point of contact for staff queries on HR policy, leave, benefits, and payroll</li>
<li>Supporting the Head of Corporate Services on disciplinary, grievance, and performance matters</li>
<li>Monitoring and reporting on Omanisation status</li>
<li>Administering the recruitment process: job posting, candidate logistics, interview scheduling, reference checks, and offer letter issuance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p><strong>Who we are looking for</strong><br>
At least five years in an HR operations or HR administration role, with at least two years in Oman or the GCC. Working knowledge of Omani Labour Law and Omanisation requirements. Demonstrated experience with payroll, benefits administration, and employee records. Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken.</p>
<p>A CIPD qualification or equivalent is an advantage. So is experience in a regulated financial services entity or a start-up environment.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>The HR function of this institution is being established from the ground up. The person in this role will build the processes, not inherit them. If you have the operational grounding and the GCC experience to do that well, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>
A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. We are hiring an HR Operations Officer to own the day-to-day execution of HR processes across the full employee lifecycle: onboarding, payroll, benefits, records, policy, and recruitment administration.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Preparing employment contracts and offer letters; managing new joiner onboarding including documentation, induction logistics, and system access coordination</li>
<li>Coordinating with the PRO on visa and labour clearance for new joiners</li>
<li>Monthly payroll administration in conjunction with the outsourced payroll provider; maintaining accurate compensation records</li>
<li>Administering medical insurance, life insurance, and other employee benefits</li>
<li>Maintaining complete and accurate personnel files in line with Omani Labour Law and data protection requirements</li>
<li>Serving as first point of contact for staff queries on HR policy, leave, benefits, and payroll</li>
<li>Supporting the Head of Corporate Services on disciplinary, grievance, and performance matters</li>
<li>Monitoring and reporting on Omanisation status</li>
<li>Administering the recruitment process: job posting, candidate logistics, interview scheduling, reference checks, and offer letter issuance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p><strong>Who we are looking for</strong><br>
At least five years in an HR operations or HR administration role, with at least two years in Oman or the GCC. Working knowledge of Omani Labour Law and Omanisation requirements. Demonstrated experience with payroll, benefits administration, and employee records. Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken.</p>
<p>A CIPD qualification or equivalent is an advantage. So is experience in a regulated financial services entity or a start-up environment.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>The HR function of this institution is being established from the ground up. The person in this role will build the processes, not inherit them. If you have the operational grounding and the GCC experience to do that well, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>
A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. This is a build-stage organisation: a small, senior team constructing something genuinely new, from the ground up, to an institutional standard.</p>
<p>We are hiring a Corporate Services Officer to be the operational backbone of the office. This is not a role for someone who wants to wait to be asked. The person we are looking for anticipates what is needed, takes ownership of their environment, and delivers a standard of service that reflects the calibre of the institution being built.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Managing the office environment so that it functions without interruption and presents professionally at all times</li>
<li>Receiving and hosting visitors to the standard expected of an international financial institution</li>
<li>Booking and administering staff business travel: flights, hotels, ground transport, visas, and itineraries</li>
<li>Coordinating inbound visitor logistics including transfers, accommodation, and meeting schedules</li>
<li>Providing logistical support for Board and committee meetings, including papers, minutes, and action tracking</li>
<li>Procuring office supplies and managing relationships with facilities providers, couriers, and the corporate travel agency</li>
<li>Providing flexible support across the Corporate Services team and covering colleagues during absences</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<h4>Who we are looking for</h4>
<p>At least three years in an office management, executive assistant, or corporate services role. Experience in a customer-facing or front-of-house environment, with a genuine instinct for hospitality. Confident booking and administering corporate travel, applying policy and escalating exceptions appropriately. Strong organiser: comfortable managing multiple workstreams at once without losing the detail. Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken.</p>
<p>Experience in a regulated financial services or professional services environment is an advantage. So is prior experience in a small firm or build-stage business where the environment moves quickly and the job description does not cover everything.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>This is a founding-team role at an institution that does not exist yet in its finished form. The work is real, the pace is real, and the standard expected is high. If you are looking for a stable, well-defined job in a large organisation, this is probably not it. If you want to be part of building something from the start, and to be trusted to run your part of it properly, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>
A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. This is a build-stage organisation: a small, senior team constructing something genuinely new, from the ground up, to an institutional standard.</p>
<p>We are hiring a Corporate Services Officer to be the operational backbone of the office. This is not a role for someone who wants to wait to be asked. The person we are looking for anticipates what is needed, takes ownership of their environment, and delivers a standard of service that reflects the calibre of the institution being built.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Managing the office environment so that it functions without interruption and presents professionally at all times</li>
<li>Receiving and hosting visitors to the standard expected of an international financial institution</li>
<li>Booking and administering staff business travel: flights, hotels, ground transport, visas, and itineraries</li>
<li>Coordinating inbound visitor logistics including transfers, accommodation, and meeting schedules</li>
<li>Providing logistical support for Board and committee meetings, including papers, minutes, and action tracking</li>
<li>Procuring office supplies and managing relationships with facilities providers, couriers, and the corporate travel agency</li>
<li>Providing flexible support across the Corporate Services team and covering colleagues during absences</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<h4>Who we are looking for</h4>
<p>At least three years in an office management, executive assistant, or corporate services role. Experience in a customer-facing or front-of-house environment, with a genuine instinct for hospitality. Confident booking and administering corporate travel, applying policy and escalating exceptions appropriately. Strong organiser: comfortable managing multiple workstreams at once without losing the detail. Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken.</p>
<p>Experience in a regulated financial services or professional services environment is an advantage. So is prior experience in a small firm or build-stage business where the environment moves quickly and the job description does not cover everything.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>This is a founding-team role at an institution that does not exist yet in its finished form. The work is real, the pace is real, and the standard expected is high. If you are looking for a stable, well-defined job in a large organisation, this is probably not it. If you want to be part of building something from the start, and to be trusted to run your part of it properly, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. We are hiring an IT Operations Officer to own the corporate IT environment: end-user devices, productivity systems, identity management, IT support, and corporate cybersecurity hygiene.</p>
<p>This role covers corporate IT only. Production technology systems sit separately with the technology leadership team.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Procurement, configuration, and lifecycle management of laptops, peripherals, and mobile devices; maintaining the device inventory and asset register</li>
<li>Administering the productivity suite (M365 or equivalent) including mailboxes, file storage, collaboration tools, and licensing</li>
<li>Identity and access management: account provisioning, role-based access, multi-factor authentication, and the joiner-mover-leaver process</li>
<li>First-line IT support for staff: incident triage, resolution, and escalation to the outsourced managed service provider where needed</li>
<li>Applying cybersecurity policy to corporate systems: email security, endpoint protection, patching, and security awareness training</li>
<li>Managing corporate IT vendor relationships, service contracts, and the IT contract register</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least five years in an IT operations, IT administration, or end-user computing role</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience administering M365 or equivalent productivity suites</li>
<li>Working knowledge of identity management, MDM, and endpoint security</li>
<li>Fluent in English; working Arabic preferred</li>
<li>Microsoft, CompTIA, or equivalent certifications are an advantage</li>
<li>Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001) and prior experience in a small-firm or regulated environment is also advantageous</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>This is a founding-team role. The corporate IT environment is being built now, and the person in this role will set it up properly from the start. If you are self-sufficient, security-conscious, and want to own your environment rather than operate within one someone else built, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. We are hiring an IT Operations Officer to own the corporate IT environment: end-user devices, productivity systems, identity management, IT support, and corporate cybersecurity hygiene.</p>
<p>This role covers corporate IT only. Production technology systems sit separately with the technology leadership team.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Procurement, configuration, and lifecycle management of laptops, peripherals, and mobile devices; maintaining the device inventory and asset register</li>
<li>Administering the productivity suite (M365 or equivalent) including mailboxes, file storage, collaboration tools, and licensing</li>
<li>Identity and access management: account provisioning, role-based access, multi-factor authentication, and the joiner-mover-leaver process</li>
<li>First-line IT support for staff: incident triage, resolution, and escalation to the outsourced managed service provider where needed</li>
<li>Applying cybersecurity policy to corporate systems: email security, endpoint protection, patching, and security awareness training</li>
<li>Managing corporate IT vendor relationships, service contracts, and the IT contract register</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least five years in an IT operations, IT administration, or end-user computing role</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience administering M365 or equivalent productivity suites</li>
<li>Working knowledge of identity management, MDM, and endpoint security</li>
<li>Fluent in English; working Arabic preferred</li>
<li>Microsoft, CompTIA, or equivalent certifications are an advantage</li>
<li>Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001) and prior experience in a small-firm or regulated environment is also advantageous</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>This is a founding-team role. The corporate IT environment is being built now, and the person in this role will set it up properly from the start. If you are self-sufficient, security-conscious, and want to own your environment rather than operate within one someone else built, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>
A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. This is a build-stage organisation growing to approximately fifty people over its first two years, and it needs someone to build and run the entire corporate infrastructure from the ground up.</p>
<p>We are hiring a Head of Corporate Services to own premises, HR, finance back-office, corporate IT, travel, and governance administration as a single integrated function. This is not a supervisory role over a team of specialists. It is a working post: the person we are looking for remains personally involved in the work, makes the decisions, and is accountable for the outcomes regardless of whether they are delivered through direct staff or outsourced providers.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sourcing, negotiating, and managing the company's office lease and fit-out; ongoing facilities management and physical security</li>
<li>Payroll, benefits, leave, expense systems, and visa and immigration administration for all staff and dependants</li>
<li>Drafting and enforcing the employee handbook and HR policies; compliance with Omani Labour Law and Omanisation requirements</li>
<li>Selecting and managing external accountants, auditors, and tax advisors; bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash management; establishing and managing banking relationships</li>
<li>Corporate IT: end-user devices, M365 administration, identity management, IT support, and cybersecurity for corporate systems</li>
<li>Owning the corporate travel policy; managing the travel agency and duty-of-care arrangements for travelling staff</li>
<li>Maintaining statutory records and registers; coordinating board and committee meetings; filing statutory returns; managing the corporate insurance programme</li>
<li>Maintaining the master vendor and contract register; negotiating, renewing, and terminating corporate service contracts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p><strong>Who we are looking for</strong><br>
At least 10 years in corporate services, operations, or general management roles, with at least five years at senior level. A demonstrable track record of leading a small, multi-disciplinary corporate function, not solely managing large departments staffed by specialists. Proven experience either establishing a regulated financial entity in Oman or the GCC, or leading the corporate function of an existing regulated entity of comparable size. Working knowledge of Omani Labour Law, immigration procedures, and corporate regulations. Demonstrated capability across multiple disciplines concurrently: premises, HR, finance, IT, and governance. Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken.</p>
<p>Experience in a financial market infrastructure, bank, or other regulated financial services entity is an advantage. So is familiarity with the IFC Oman regulatory framework and prior experience in a start-up or greenfield environment.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>On day one, the office does not exist, the payroll has not been run, the banking has not been established, and the IT has not been deployed. Within twelve months, all of it needs to be running to the standard of an international regulated institution. The person who takes this role will have built it. If that is the kind of challenge you are looking for, and you have the breadth of experience to deliver it, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>
A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. This is a build-stage organisation growing to approximately fifty people over its first two years, and it needs someone to build and run the entire corporate infrastructure from the ground up.</p>
<p>We are hiring a Head of Corporate Services to own premises, HR, finance back-office, corporate IT, travel, and governance administration as a single integrated function. This is not a supervisory role over a team of specialists. It is a working post: the person we are looking for remains personally involved in the work, makes the decisions, and is accountable for the outcomes regardless of whether they are delivered through direct staff or outsourced providers.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Sourcing, negotiating, and managing the company's office lease and fit-out; ongoing facilities management and physical security</li>
<li>Payroll, benefits, leave, expense systems, and visa and immigration administration for all staff and dependants</li>
<li>Drafting and enforcing the employee handbook and HR policies; compliance with Omani Labour Law and Omanisation requirements</li>
<li>Selecting and managing external accountants, auditors, and tax advisors; bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash management; establishing and managing banking relationships</li>
<li>Corporate IT: end-user devices, M365 administration, identity management, IT support, and cybersecurity for corporate systems</li>
<li>Owning the corporate travel policy; managing the travel agency and duty-of-care arrangements for travelling staff</li>
<li>Maintaining statutory records and registers; coordinating board and committee meetings; filing statutory returns; managing the corporate insurance programme</li>
<li>Maintaining the master vendor and contract register; negotiating, renewing, and terminating corporate service contracts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p><strong>Who we are looking for</strong><br>
At least 10 years in corporate services, operations, or general management roles, with at least five years at senior level. A demonstrable track record of leading a small, multi-disciplinary corporate function, not solely managing large departments staffed by specialists. Proven experience either establishing a regulated financial entity in Oman or the GCC, or leading the corporate function of an existing regulated entity of comparable size. Working knowledge of Omani Labour Law, immigration procedures, and corporate regulations. Demonstrated capability across multiple disciplines concurrently: premises, HR, finance, IT, and governance. Fluent in Arabic and English, written and spoken.</p>
<p>Experience in a financial market infrastructure, bank, or other regulated financial services entity is an advantage. So is familiarity with the IFC Oman regulatory framework and prior experience in a start-up or greenfield environment.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>On day one, the office does not exist, the payroll has not been run, the banking has not been established, and the IT has not been deployed. Within twelve months, all of it needs to be running to the standard of an international regulated institution. The person who takes this role will have built it. If that is the kind of challenge you are looking for, and you have the breadth of experience to deliver it, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. We are hiring an experienced PRO to manage the company's interaction with Omani government authorities on all matters relating to immigration, labour, civil status, and corporate registration.</p>
<p>What the role covers</p>
<ul>
<li>End-to-end processing of employment visas, residence cards, and dependant visas; renewals in advance of expiry; cancellation on departure</li>
<li>Labour clearances and work permits with the Ministry of Labour; Omanisation reporting and compliance</li>
<li>Renewal of the company's commercial registration, Chamber of Commerce certificate, and related corporate filings</li>
<li>Submission of corporate filings to the relevant authority on matters delegated by the Head of Corporate Services</li>
<li>Collection and submission of documents to and from ministries, authorities, and embassies</li>
<li>Attestation, notarisation, and translation of documents as required</li>
<li>Safe transport and custody of original documents</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements</p>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least five years as a PRO in Oman, ideally within a regulated financial services or international corporate environment</li>
<li>Comprehensive working knowledge of Omani immigration, labour, and corporate registration procedures</li>
<li>Established working relationships with the relevant ministries and authorities</li>
<li>Valid Omani driving licence</li>
<li>Fluent in Arabic; working English written and spoken</li>
<li>Familiarity with authority procedures in an international financial centre context and prior experience supporting an international workforce with diverse nationalities are both advantages</li>
</ul>
<p>What this is</p>
<p>This is a founding-team role at an institution that will employ an international workforce from the point of launch. The PRO function needs to be running without gaps from day one. If you have the procedural mastery and the established authority relationships to deliver that, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. We are hiring an experienced PRO to manage the company's interaction with Omani government authorities on all matters relating to immigration, labour, civil status, and corporate registration.</p>
<p>What the role covers</p>
<ul>
<li>End-to-end processing of employment visas, residence cards, and dependant visas; renewals in advance of expiry; cancellation on departure</li>
<li>Labour clearances and work permits with the Ministry of Labour; Omanisation reporting and compliance</li>
<li>Renewal of the company's commercial registration, Chamber of Commerce certificate, and related corporate filings</li>
<li>Submission of corporate filings to the relevant authority on matters delegated by the Head of Corporate Services</li>
<li>Collection and submission of documents to and from ministries, authorities, and embassies</li>
<li>Attestation, notarisation, and translation of documents as required</li>
<li>Safe transport and custody of original documents</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements</p>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least five years as a PRO in Oman, ideally within a regulated financial services or international corporate environment</li>
<li>Comprehensive working knowledge of Omani immigration, labour, and corporate registration procedures</li>
<li>Established working relationships with the relevant ministries and authorities</li>
<li>Valid Omani driving licence</li>
<li>Fluent in Arabic; working English written and spoken</li>
<li>Familiarity with authority procedures in an international financial centre context and prior experience supporting an international workforce with diverse nationalities are both advantages</li>
</ul>
<p>What this is</p>
<p>This is a founding-team role at an institution that will employ an international workforce from the point of launch. The PRO function needs to be running without gaps from day one. If you have the procedural mastery and the established authority relationships to deliver that, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027.</p>
<p>We are hiring two business analysts to sit at the engine room of the programme. A regulated financial market infrastructure being built from a blank sheet generates an enormous volume of design, process, and operational documentation that needs to be produced, standardised, kept current, and used to drive downstream artefacts including test plans, training materials, runbooks, and regulatory submissions.</p>
<p>This programme operates as a highly AI-leveraged programme office, with Claude adopted as the standard productivity tool. The business analyst is the human who knows the business, knows the documentation standards, prompts Claude well, and rigorously checks and refines its output. The principle is clear: AI is the servant, never the master. Human accountability for accuracy, judgement, and domain interpretation is non-negotiable.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Producing, structuring, and maintaining the programme's delivery documentation: process maps, workflow diagrams, design documents, decision logs, operational procedures, runbook drafts, training materials, and papers</li>
<li>Driving consistency of documentation across the programme: common templates, terminology, structure, and version control</li>
<li>Operating as a skilled user of Claude: prompting effectively, iterating, refining, and treating AI output as a first draft to be improved, never as a finished product</li>
<li>Identifying opportunities to use AI to compress effort across the programme, for example generating test plans from design documents or training material from runbooks</li>
<li>Mapping current-state and target-state processes across the operating model in collaboration with the product owner, operations lead, head of operations control, and other business owners</li>
<li>Maintaining the programme RAID log; supporting the project manager on plan maintenance, dependency tracking, and status reporting</li>
<li>Generating test artefacts from upstream design documentation: test plans, test cases, test data requirements, and traceability matrices</li>
<li>Absorbing domain knowledge actively: how a CSD works, how settlement happens, how registry is maintained, how corporate actions flow, and what the regulator requires</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<h4>Who we are looking for</h4>
<ul>
<li>At least three years in a business analyst, process analyst, or documentation-heavy role, ideally in financial services or another regulated industry. Strong process mapping and documentation skills: able to translate verbal discussion into clear, structured written output.</li>
<li>Fast learner: able to absorb new domain knowledge quickly and use it accurately. High proficiency in Microsoft Office and standard process-mapping tools (Visio, Lucidchart, Miro, or equivalent). Fluent in English.</li>
<li>Demonstrable, hands-on fluency with Claude or equivalent large language models as a productivity multiplier in real work is required. Candidates should be able to describe specific examples. Candidates without prior Claude experience but with strong evidence of fast AI adoption will be considered.</li>
<li>Exposure to financial market infrastructure or capital markets and post-trade processes is an advantage. So is experience producing documentation subject to regulatory inspection or external audit.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>This is a hands-on, productive role for fast learners who want to operate at the frontier of how a modern programme office works. The post-holder will not be a passive note-taker. They will be expected to absorb domain knowledge quickly, drive their own work, and continuously raise the standard and consistency of programme documentation. If that is the way you work and you have the AI fluency and documentation discipline to back it up, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027.</p>
<p>We are hiring two business analysts to sit at the engine room of the programme. A regulated financial market infrastructure being built from a blank sheet generates an enormous volume of design, process, and operational documentation that needs to be produced, standardised, kept current, and used to drive downstream artefacts including test plans, training materials, runbooks, and regulatory submissions.</p>
<p>This programme operates as a highly AI-leveraged programme office, with Claude adopted as the standard productivity tool. The business analyst is the human who knows the business, knows the documentation standards, prompts Claude well, and rigorously checks and refines its output. The principle is clear: AI is the servant, never the master. Human accountability for accuracy, judgement, and domain interpretation is non-negotiable.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Producing, structuring, and maintaining the programme's delivery documentation: process maps, workflow diagrams, design documents, decision logs, operational procedures, runbook drafts, training materials, and papers</li>
<li>Driving consistency of documentation across the programme: common templates, terminology, structure, and version control</li>
<li>Operating as a skilled user of Claude: prompting effectively, iterating, refining, and treating AI output as a first draft to be improved, never as a finished product</li>
<li>Identifying opportunities to use AI to compress effort across the programme, for example generating test plans from design documents or training material from runbooks</li>
<li>Mapping current-state and target-state processes across the operating model in collaboration with the product owner, operations lead, head of operations control, and other business owners</li>
<li>Maintaining the programme RAID log; supporting the project manager on plan maintenance, dependency tracking, and status reporting</li>
<li>Generating test artefacts from upstream design documentation: test plans, test cases, test data requirements, and traceability matrices</li>
<li>Absorbing domain knowledge actively: how a CSD works, how settlement happens, how registry is maintained, how corporate actions flow, and what the regulator requires</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<h4>Who we are looking for</h4>
<ul>
<li>At least three years in a business analyst, process analyst, or documentation-heavy role, ideally in financial services or another regulated industry. Strong process mapping and documentation skills: able to translate verbal discussion into clear, structured written output.</li>
<li>Fast learner: able to absorb new domain knowledge quickly and use it accurately. High proficiency in Microsoft Office and standard process-mapping tools (Visio, Lucidchart, Miro, or equivalent). Fluent in English.</li>
<li>Demonstrable, hands-on fluency with Claude or equivalent large language models as a productivity multiplier in real work is required. Candidates should be able to describe specific examples. Candidates without prior Claude experience but with strong evidence of fast AI adoption will be considered.</li>
<li>Exposure to financial market infrastructure or capital markets and post-trade processes is an advantage. So is experience producing documentation subject to regulatory inspection or external audit.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>This is a hands-on, productive role for fast learners who want to operate at the frontier of how a modern programme office works. The post-holder will not be a passive note-taker. They will be expected to absorb domain knowledge quickly, drive their own work, and continuously raise the standard and consistency of programme documentation. If that is the way you work and you have the AI fluency and documentation discipline to back it up, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027.</p>
<p>We are hiring an Operations Lead to design the operational function from a blank sheet in Build, and then operate it in Run. Issuers, primary dealers, custodians, settlement banks, and investors will depend on this platform to do what it says it will do, on time, every time, without exception. The Operations Lead is the person accountable for making that happen day after day once the platform is live.</p>
<p>Scope is all operational activity except controls. Reconciliations, regulatory reporting, client money compliance, and data governance sit with the Head of Operations Control. Everything else operational sits here.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Designing the operational function from a blank sheet: team structure, capability profile, operating procedures, runbooks, calendars, cut-offs, and escalation paths</li>
<li>Owning the operational execution of settlement: trade input, matching, instruction processing, cash and securities movement, settlement finality, and exception management</li>
<li>Owning the operational execution of registry maintenance: account opening, amendments, position management, and holding statements</li>
<li>Owning end-to-end operational responsibility for asset servicing and corporate actions: notification, election capture, processing, distribution, and reconciliation back to issuers and participants</li>
<li>Designing and operating the participant onboarding process; owning day-to-day participant services including enquiry handling, instruction support, and issue resolution</li>
<li>Owning first-line operational risk identification, recording, mitigation, and escalation; operating the operational incident management process</li>
<li>Owning operational relationships with custodians, settlement banks, the exchange, SWIFT, and paying agents</li>
<li>Owning operational readiness for go-live: trained team, tested procedures, signed-off runbooks, and completed dress rehearsals</li>
<li>Line managing the Operations Analyst, Corporate Actions Specialist, and the wider Operations team as it builds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least 10 years in securities operations, custody operations, settlement operations, or financial market infrastructure operations. Direct, demonstrable experience operating securities settlement and registry processes at scale: this is non-negotiable.</li>
<li>Direct, hands-on experience of corporate actions operations across a range of event types.</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience designing or significantly redesigning an operational function, including procedures, runbooks, team structure, and training, rather than only operating one inherited from elsewhere.</li>
<li>Track record of operating under regulatory expectations for an FMI or a securities-services business.</li>
<li>Experience managing operational relationships with custodians, settlement banks, and exchange or CSD counterparties.</li>
<li>Fluent in English.</li>
<li>Direct experience in a CSD, ICSD, or custody bank is a strong advantage. So is experience operating SWIFT-based settlement messaging and familiarity with Islamic-finance instrument operations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>The operational function does not exist yet. The procedures have not been written, the runbooks have not been drafted, and the team has not been built. The person who takes this role will have done all of it. If you have the settlement and registry operations background to design this from first principles and the leadership to run it to a regulated FMI standard, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027.</p>
<p>We are hiring an Operations Lead to design the operational function from a blank sheet in Build, and then operate it in Run. Issuers, primary dealers, custodians, settlement banks, and investors will depend on this platform to do what it says it will do, on time, every time, without exception. The Operations Lead is the person accountable for making that happen day after day once the platform is live.</p>
<p>Scope is all operational activity except controls. Reconciliations, regulatory reporting, client money compliance, and data governance sit with the Head of Operations Control. Everything else operational sits here.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Designing the operational function from a blank sheet: team structure, capability profile, operating procedures, runbooks, calendars, cut-offs, and escalation paths</li>
<li>Owning the operational execution of settlement: trade input, matching, instruction processing, cash and securities movement, settlement finality, and exception management</li>
<li>Owning the operational execution of registry maintenance: account opening, amendments, position management, and holding statements</li>
<li>Owning end-to-end operational responsibility for asset servicing and corporate actions: notification, election capture, processing, distribution, and reconciliation back to issuers and participants</li>
<li>Designing and operating the participant onboarding process; owning day-to-day participant services including enquiry handling, instruction support, and issue resolution</li>
<li>Owning first-line operational risk identification, recording, mitigation, and escalation; operating the operational incident management process</li>
<li>Owning operational relationships with custodians, settlement banks, the exchange, SWIFT, and paying agents</li>
<li>Owning operational readiness for go-live: trained team, tested procedures, signed-off runbooks, and completed dress rehearsals</li>
<li>Line managing the Operations Analyst, Corporate Actions Specialist, and the wider Operations team as it builds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least 10 years in securities operations, custody operations, settlement operations, or financial market infrastructure operations. Direct, demonstrable experience operating securities settlement and registry processes at scale: this is non-negotiable.</li>
<li>Direct, hands-on experience of corporate actions operations across a range of event types.</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience designing or significantly redesigning an operational function, including procedures, runbooks, team structure, and training, rather than only operating one inherited from elsewhere.</li>
<li>Track record of operating under regulatory expectations for an FMI or a securities-services business.</li>
<li>Experience managing operational relationships with custodians, settlement banks, and exchange or CSD counterparties.</li>
<li>Fluent in English.</li>
<li>Direct experience in a CSD, ICSD, or custody bank is a strong advantage. So is experience operating SWIFT-based settlement messaging and familiarity with Islamic-finance instrument operations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>The operational function does not exist yet. The procedures have not been written, the runbooks have not been drafted, and the team has not been built. The person who takes this role will have done all of it. If you have the settlement and registry operations background to design this from first principles and the leadership to run it to a regulated FMI standard, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027.</p>
<p>We are hiring a Head of Product Technology to own the technology platform end-to-end: the application and the infrastructure on which it runs. This is not background plumbing. The application is the product. The infrastructure is the foundation on which settlement finality, system resilience, latency performance, and operational availability are delivered. The post-holder must understand both layers as one integrated whole and own them as one.</p>
<p>In build, the post-holder is the architect of the platform from a blank sheet: technology reference architecture, infrastructure topology, hosting strategy, network and database design, integration patterns, security architecture, and resilience and disaster-recovery architecture. In run, the same person operates the platform and the team they have designed. This is not a sit-in-your-office role.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Designing the technology reference architecture from a blank sheet: application architecture, infrastructure topology, database platform, network design, integration patterns, security architecture, and resilience and DR architecture</li>
<li>Owning the application end-to-end: design, configuration, integration, data model, change management, and support</li>
<li>Owning the infrastructure that hosts the platform: compute, storage, network, virtualisation, database, and middleware, whether on-premise, hosted, or cloud</li>
<li>Owning platform resilience: high availability design, backup and recovery architecture, disaster recovery, business continuity, and tested failover</li>
<li>Owning end-to-end platform performance including transaction latency, capacity planning, and headroom strategy</li>
<li>Owning first-line platform security: secure configuration, hardening, identity and access management, vulnerability management, patching, and security incident response</li>
<li>Owning the technical relationship with the build vendor; holding them to account on functional, technical, and operational delivery</li>
<li>Designing the human operating model for the platform: team shape, shift patterns, on-call rotations, incident command structure, runbooks, and third-party support arrangements</li>
<li>Owning all integrations between the platform and external systems: custodians, settlement banks, exchange, SWIFT, Bloomberg, and ISIN infrastructure</li>
<li>Line managing the Application Managers, Database Administrator, and the wider platform engineering team as it builds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<h4>Who we are looking for</h4>
<p>At least 12 years in financial-services platform technology, with substantial time spent owning a mission-critical platform end-to-end across both application and infrastructure layers. Direct, demonstrable experience architecting a mission-critical regulated financial platform from a blank sheet: this is non-negotiable. Direct, demonstrable experience as the technical authority on a CSD, custody platform, post-trade platform, capital markets platform, or core banking system of comparable mission-criticality: also non-negotiable.</p>
<p>Hands-on technical credibility across both application and infrastructure layers: able to read code, query a database, design a network topology, debug an integration, and challenge a vendor's technical decisions with authority. Demonstrated experience holding a major build vendor or system integrator to account on technical delivery. Deep understanding of how a regulated financial-services business works, not just the technology underneath it. Fluent in English.</p>
<p>Experience in financial market infrastructure (CSD, CCP, exchange, or payment system) is an advantage. So is familiarity with CPMI-IOSCO principles and experience designing SWIFT, Bloomberg, and ICSD integrations.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>The platform does not exist yet. The architecture has not been designed, the infrastructure has not been built, and the operating model has not been written. The person who takes this role will have done all of it. If you have genuinely architected and owned a mission-critical regulated financial platform from a blank sheet, and you have the hands-on credibility and delivery drive to do it again, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027.</p>
<p>We are hiring a Head of Product Technology to own the technology platform end-to-end: the application and the infrastructure on which it runs. This is not background plumbing. The application is the product. The infrastructure is the foundation on which settlement finality, system resilience, latency performance, and operational availability are delivered. The post-holder must understand both layers as one integrated whole and own them as one.</p>
<p>In build, the post-holder is the architect of the platform from a blank sheet: technology reference architecture, infrastructure topology, hosting strategy, network and database design, integration patterns, security architecture, and resilience and disaster-recovery architecture. In run, the same person operates the platform and the team they have designed. This is not a sit-in-your-office role.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Designing the technology reference architecture from a blank sheet: application architecture, infrastructure topology, database platform, network design, integration patterns, security architecture, and resilience and DR architecture</li>
<li>Owning the application end-to-end: design, configuration, integration, data model, change management, and support</li>
<li>Owning the infrastructure that hosts the platform: compute, storage, network, virtualisation, database, and middleware, whether on-premise, hosted, or cloud</li>
<li>Owning platform resilience: high availability design, backup and recovery architecture, disaster recovery, business continuity, and tested failover</li>
<li>Owning end-to-end platform performance including transaction latency, capacity planning, and headroom strategy</li>
<li>Owning first-line platform security: secure configuration, hardening, identity and access management, vulnerability management, patching, and security incident response</li>
<li>Owning the technical relationship with the build vendor; holding them to account on functional, technical, and operational delivery</li>
<li>Designing the human operating model for the platform: team shape, shift patterns, on-call rotations, incident command structure, runbooks, and third-party support arrangements</li>
<li>Owning all integrations between the platform and external systems: custodians, settlement banks, exchange, SWIFT, Bloomberg, and ISIN infrastructure</li>
<li>Line managing the Application Managers, Database Administrator, and the wider platform engineering team as it builds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<h4>Who we are looking for</h4>
<p>At least 12 years in financial-services platform technology, with substantial time spent owning a mission-critical platform end-to-end across both application and infrastructure layers. Direct, demonstrable experience architecting a mission-critical regulated financial platform from a blank sheet: this is non-negotiable. Direct, demonstrable experience as the technical authority on a CSD, custody platform, post-trade platform, capital markets platform, or core banking system of comparable mission-criticality: also non-negotiable.</p>
<p>Hands-on technical credibility across both application and infrastructure layers: able to read code, query a database, design a network topology, debug an integration, and challenge a vendor's technical decisions with authority. Demonstrated experience holding a major build vendor or system integrator to account on technical delivery. Deep understanding of how a regulated financial-services business works, not just the technology underneath it. Fluent in English.</p>
<p>Experience in financial market infrastructure (CSD, CCP, exchange, or payment system) is an advantage. So is familiarity with CPMI-IOSCO principles and experience designing SWIFT, Bloomberg, and ICSD integrations.</p>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>The platform does not exist yet. The architecture has not been designed, the infrastructure has not been built, and the operating model has not been written. The person who takes this role will have done all of it. If you have genuinely architected and owned a mission-critical regulated financial platform from a blank sheet, and you have the hands-on credibility and delivery drive to do it again, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027, designed to operate as a regulated financial market infrastructure from day one.</p>
<p>This is one of the two most important hires the organisation will make. We are not looking for a process-led project administrator. We are looking for a delivery-obsessed operator who hustles for outcomes, pushes the organisation when it needs pushing, and knows precisely when to escalate and pull in support rather than letting an issue fester. The project manager forms a tight core delivery unit with the programme director and the product owner, and is accountable for the end-to-end internal delivery of the platform and the operating model that surrounds it.</p>
<p>What the role covers</p>
<ul>
<li>Owning the integrated delivery plan across design, build, test, operational readiness, and regulatory submission readiness; driving it relentlessly</li>
<li>Sequencing work across technology, operations, risk, data, corporate services, and the build vendor; identifying dependencies and blockers early and resolving or escalating fast</li>
<li>Owning the build CAPEX and OPEX budgets; tracking actual against forecast and bringing options, not just problems, to the programme director</li>
<li>Chairing the weekly delivery forum and programme risk forum; running the programme governance rhythm from daily stand-ups through to quarterly board updates</li>
<li>Setting and upholding the quality bar at each stage gate across the programme</li>
<li>Line managing the programme office executive, business analysts, test manager, and testing team</li>
<li>Providing candid, evidenced delivery reporting to the programme director and board</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements</p>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<p>At least 12 years in programme or project management, with a minimum of seven years running large technology and operational change programmes in financial services. Direct, demonstrable experience personally leading a programme of comparable scale and complexity from a standing start: this is non-negotiable. Domain credibility in financial market infrastructure (CSD, CCP, exchange, or payment system) or capital markets platform delivery; able to speak the language of settlement, custody, clearing, and post-trade fluently. A track record of delivering against fixed regulatory or external deadlines. Recognised qualification: PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP, or equivalent. Fluent in English.</p>
<p>Experience working with global system integrators or major financial services build vendors is an advantage. So is familiarity with CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures and Arabic language skills.</p>
<p>What this is</p>
<p>The post-holder must be able to walk into rooms with vendors, regulators, advisors, and senior stakeholders and command respect from day one. Authority here comes from competence and credibility, not title. If you have genuinely led a regulated platform build of comparable weight from a standing start, and you have the drive and composure to do it again in a fast-moving greenfield environment, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository being built to go-live in 2027, designed to operate as a regulated financial market infrastructure from day one.</p>
<p>This is one of the two most important hires the organisation will make. We are not looking for a process-led project administrator. We are looking for a delivery-obsessed operator who hustles for outcomes, pushes the organisation when it needs pushing, and knows precisely when to escalate and pull in support rather than letting an issue fester. The project manager forms a tight core delivery unit with the programme director and the product owner, and is accountable for the end-to-end internal delivery of the platform and the operating model that surrounds it.</p>
<p>What the role covers</p>
<ul>
<li>Owning the integrated delivery plan across design, build, test, operational readiness, and regulatory submission readiness; driving it relentlessly</li>
<li>Sequencing work across technology, operations, risk, data, corporate services, and the build vendor; identifying dependencies and blockers early and resolving or escalating fast</li>
<li>Owning the build CAPEX and OPEX budgets; tracking actual against forecast and bringing options, not just problems, to the programme director</li>
<li>Chairing the weekly delivery forum and programme risk forum; running the programme governance rhythm from daily stand-ups through to quarterly board updates</li>
<li>Setting and upholding the quality bar at each stage gate across the programme</li>
<li>Line managing the programme office executive, business analysts, test manager, and testing team</li>
<li>Providing candid, evidenced delivery reporting to the programme director and board</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements</p>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<p>At least 12 years in programme or project management, with a minimum of seven years running large technology and operational change programmes in financial services. Direct, demonstrable experience personally leading a programme of comparable scale and complexity from a standing start: this is non-negotiable. Domain credibility in financial market infrastructure (CSD, CCP, exchange, or payment system) or capital markets platform delivery; able to speak the language of settlement, custody, clearing, and post-trade fluently. A track record of delivering against fixed regulatory or external deadlines. Recognised qualification: PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP, or equivalent. Fluent in English.</p>
<p>Experience working with global system integrators or major financial services build vendors is an advantage. So is familiarity with CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures and Arabic language skills.</p>
<p>What this is</p>
<p>The post-holder must be able to walk into rooms with vendors, regulators, advisors, and senior stakeholders and command respect from day one. Authority here comes from competence and credibility, not title. If you have genuinely led a regulated platform build of comparable weight from a standing start, and you have the drive and composure to do it again in a fast-moving greenfield environment, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>
<p><h4>Description</h4>
<p>The opportunity</p>
<p>A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is a greenfield central securities depository regulated under the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures.</p>
<p>We are hiring a Regulatory and Risk Lead to head the second line of defence. The role is accountable for the enterprise risk framework, regulatory relationship and compliance, financial crime prevention, and oversight of information security. The intention is that the post-holder progresses into the Head of Risk and Compliance role in the Run phase.</p>
<p>The first-line functions own the day-to-day execution and the controls that surround it. The Regulatory and Risk Lead independently reviews, challenges, and reports on that first-line execution; sets the policy and framework standards within which it must operate; and owns the relationship with the regulator across all matters except specific operational regulatory reporting. The post-holder must be willing and able to challenge their peers, including those above them, without flinching, and to escalate to the Board where necessary.</p>
<h4>What the role covers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Designing the enterprise risk framework from a blank sheet: risk taxonomy, risk appetite, risk tolerances, key risk indicators, governance, and reporting</li>
<li>Owning the day-to-day relationship with the regulator on all compliance and supervisory matters; leading the response to inspections and supervisory enquiries</li>
<li>Owning the regulatory engagement plan: notifications, periodic submissions, supervisory meetings, thematic reviews, and ad hoc requests</li>
<li>Providing second-line oversight of adherence to CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures; leading engagement with PFMI assessors and international supervisory bodies</li>
<li>Designing and owning the financial crime framework: AML, counter-terrorism financing, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption; discharging or designating MLRO accountability</li>
<li>Setting the information security policy framework and providing second-line oversight of first-line information security; owning regulator-facing reporting on cyber matters</li>
<li>Owning the policy framework: structure, hierarchy, ownership, review cycles, and attestation</li>
<li>Providing independent second-line reporting to the Board Risk Committee on risk, compliance, financial crime, and information security</li>
<li>Line managing the Cybersecurity and Information Security Manager, KYC/Compliance Expert, and wider Risk and Compliance team as it builds</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Who we are looking for</p>
<ul>
<li>At least 12 years in risk, compliance, or regulatory roles in financial services, with substantial time in a second-line capacity at a regulated firm. Direct, demonstrable experience as the second-line risk and compliance owner, or a senior member of the second-line function, at a financial market infrastructure, custody bank, exchange, payment system, or major regulated financial institution: this is non-negotiable.</li>
<li>Direct experience engaging with a senior financial-services regulator on licensing, supervisory matters, inspections, and policy development. Working knowledge of CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures.</li>
<li>Direct experience designing and operating an AML and financial crime framework, including MLRO accountability or close support of an MLRO.</li>
<li>Track record of independently challenging first-line decisions and escalating to Board level where necessary.</li>
<li>Fluent in English.</li>
<li>A professional qualification (ICA Diploma, CISI, ACAMS, or equivalent) is an advantage. So is familiarity with the IFC Oman regulatory framework, direct experience in a CSD, CCP, or exchange, and Arabic language skills.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this is</h4>
<p>The second-line function does not exist yet. The risk framework has not been written, the compliance monitoring plan has not been set, and the regulatory relationship is in its earliest stages. The person who takes this role will build all of it and carry it through licensing and into operation.</p>
<p>If you are unquestionably credible with senior regulators, have the independence to challenge upward when the evidence demands it, and want to build a second-line function at a regulated FMI from a blank sheet, this is worth a conversation.</p></p><p></p>