Head of Licensing and Regulatory Authorisations

🕒 March 21

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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📋 Description

• Design and implement a unified global licensing strategy, ensuring consistency across regional approaches. • Work closely with regional licensing personnel to assess regulatory pathways, evaluate market feasibility, and prioritise jurisdictions. • Oversee and guide the preparation, submission, and management of licensing applications and / or other regulatory authorisation processes, in collaboration with regional teams. • Ensure alignment between regional licensing efforts and global business priorities. • Serve as the central point of coordination for licensing and regulatory authorisation activity across all regions, ensuring standards, documentation, and approaches remain cohesive. • Act as a senior representative in regulatory engagements where global coordination or executive-level involvement is required. • Coordinate with regional teams to ensure their understanding around local regulatory requirements such that they are prepared to meet jurisdictional authorisation obligations, where needed and / or desired.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in regulatory licensing and authorisations, regulatory affairs, compliance, or related fields (financial services, payments, fintech, crypto, or technology) • Proven experience managing complex regulatory authorisation processes across multiple regions or markets. • Strong understanding of diverse regulatory frameworks and supervisory expectations globally. • Experience working within or leading a regional or matrixed team structure is highly preferred. • Exceptional cross-regional coordination and stakeholder engagement skills. • Strong project management capabilities and ability to manage complex, multi-jurisdictional workstreams. • Excellent written and verbal communication, able to synthesise regional inputs into a coherent global strategy. • Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline. • Ability to build trust and credibility with regulators and internal leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• Transparent work culture • Opportunity to work with a global team • Mentorship from industry leaders

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