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talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform. Our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

Job Description

This role plays a critical part in strengthening the Global Compliance Program by ensuring strict adherence to regulatory requirements across areas such as KYB and third-party due diligence. The role demands proactive risk identification, sharp analysis of compliance metrics, and decisive follow-up on issues and action plans. The candidate is expected to drive compliance controls, enforce sanctions regulations, and ensure timely implementation of global initiatives. A strong grasp of regulatory developments, rigorous monitoring, and the ability to influence key stakeholders across the business are essential to maintain the highest standards of compliance integrity and operational accountability.

What’s On Your Plate?

• This position will support and enhance the Global Compliance Program.
• Lead the development, implementation, and rollout of internal compliance policies across relevant jurisdictions.
• Review, draft, and standardize Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to align with regulatory expectations and internal governance.
• Supervise compliance with regulatory requirements related to scope areas.
• Report, analyze, and scale relevant compliance metrics.
• Manage risk controls and regulatory affairs to drive the control agenda.
• Conduct compliance awareness and training sessions where appropriate.
• Liaise with the Regional Compliance team to help deliver initiatives.
• Build and maintain key relationships across the Compliance department and with key partners.
• Follow up on open action plans and problem solving.
• Perform Due Diligence on all third parties.
• Perform risk assessments to understand the level and scope of risk.
• Provide Regional Compliance Team with assurance that all controls required under sanctions regulations are embedded to avoid any sanctions breach and/or establishing relationships with a listed party.
• Report findings and submit recommendations for corrective actions to the Regional Compliance Team.
• Support Compliance Monitoring and KYC requirements in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Monitor compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies.
• Keep up-to-date with relevant laws, rules, and regulations, and ensure that any changes are reflected in policies, procedures, and compliance programs.
• Create internal reports as required.
• Investigate irregularities and non-compliance issues.
• Report back to business functions on current risk and compliance performance.
• Highlight and escalate areas of concern to the Regional Compliance Team.
• Perform various administrative duties such as file creation and maintenance of ongoing projects.
• Review due diligence requests and related risks of third parties, and recruitment of high-risk candidates to ensure compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, Compliance, or a related field (Master’s or professional certification preferred: e.g., CAMS, ICA, CRCM).
• 5+ years of experience in a compliance, risk, or regulatory role, ideally in a multinational or regulated environment.
• Proven experience managing KYB, due diligence, and third-party risk processes.
• Strong understanding of sanctions regulations, AML, CTF, and general regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in drafting, rolling out, and maintaining policies and SOPs.
• Familiarity with compliance monitoring frameworks and audit processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams and deliver global or regional compliance initiatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to assess risk and recommend controls.
• Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal—with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving structure in fast-paced environments.
• Strong ethics and sound judgment; maintains confidentiality and integrity.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspaces; experience with compliance and risk systems/tools.
• Fluency in English & Arabic is a must.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Legal

Industries

• Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting

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Company Description

talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

Job Description This role plays a critical part in strengthening the Global Compliance Program by ensuring strict adherence to regulatory requirements across areas such as KYB and third-party due diligence. The role demands proactive risk identification, sharp analysis of compliance metrics, and decisive follow-up on issues and action plans. The candidate is expected to drive compliance controls, enforce sanctions regulations, and ensure timely implementation of global initiatives. A strong grasp of regulatory developments, rigorous monitoring, and the ability to influence key stakeholders across the business are essential to maintain the highest standards of compliance integrity and operational accountability.

What’s On Your Plate?

● This position will support and enhance the Global Compliance Program.

● Lead the development, implementation, and rollout of internal compliance policies across relevant jurisdictions.

● Review, draft, and standardize Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to align with regulatory expectations and internal governance.

● Supervision of compliance with regulatory requirements related to scope areas

● Reporting, analysis and scaling of relevant compliance metrics.

● Manage risk controls and regulatory affairs to drive the control agenda.

● Conduct compliance awareness and training sessions where appropriate.

● Liaise with the Regional Compliance team to help deliver initiatives.

● Build and maintain key relationships across the Compliance department and with key partners.

● Follow up on open action plans and problem solving.

● Perform Due Diligence on all third party’s

● Perform risk assessments to understand the level, and scope of risk

● Provide Regional Compliance Team with assurance that all controls required under sanctions regulations are embedded to avoid any sanctions breach and/or establishing relationship with a listed party

● Report findings and submit recommendations for corrective action to Regional Compliance Team

● Supporting Compliance Monitoring and KYC requirements in accordance with regulatory requirement

● Monitor compliance with laws, regulations and internal policies

● Keeping up-to-date of relevant laws, rules and regulations and ensuring that any changes to these are reported and reflected in the relevant policies, procedures and compliance programs

● Create internal reports as required

● Investigate irregularities and non-compliance issues

● Report back to business functions on current risk and compliance performance

● Highlight and escalate areas of concern to the Regional Compliance Team

● Perform various general administrative duties (such as file creation and maintenance of ongoing administrative projects)

● Review due diligence requests and related risks of third parties, and recruitment of high risk candidates to ensure compliance with our internal policies and laws

Qualifications What Did We Order?

Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, Compliance, or a related field (Master’s or professional certification preferred: e.g. CAMS, ICA, CRCM).

5+ years of experience in a compliance, risk, or regulatory role, ideally in a multinational or regulated environment.

Proven experience managing KYB, due diligence, and third-party risk processes.

Strong understanding of sanctions regulations, AML and CTF, and general regulatory frameworks.

Experience in drafting, rolling out, and maintaining policies and SOPs.

Familiarity with compliance monitoring frameworks and audit processes.

Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams and deliver global or regional compliance initiatives.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to assess risk and recommend actionable controls.

Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal—with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.

Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving structure in fast-paced environments.

Strong ethics and sound judgment; maintains confidentiality and integrity.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspaces; experience with compliance and risk systems/tools.

Fluency in English & Arabic is a must.

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**Job Title**

**Compliance and Documentation Specialist**

**About Abbott**

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

**Working at Abbott**

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

**The Opportunity**

This position works out of our Kuwait location in the Nutrition Division. In this division our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands - including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, Glucerna® and ZonePerfect® - to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Conduct quarterly monitoring/audit to make sure they are compliant with the policy and requirements.
- Review & approve all activities to be performed with Health Care Professionals, and Health Care Institutions to ensure compliance with the policy and Abbott requirements are met before proceeding with the activity.
- Review and approve samples reconciliation on quarterly basis.
- Review and approve Debit Notes to distributors.
- Review and approve all invoices before payment to ensure all pre and post event documentation are in place.
- Perform Denied Party Screening on all HCPs, HCIs and customers on quarterly basis.
- Perform market visit with team members to ensure activities and visits are done in the right way.

**Required Qualifications**
- A bachelor's degree in business administration, pharma or related is the minimum requirement.
- 2-3 years of experience in a similar role
- Internal audit experience or compliance reviews experience is a **must.**

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Working in a similar role
- preferably in a large organization / multinational.
- Experience working in a pharmaceutical sector experience is advantageous.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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• Identify risk data sources and coordinate with the relevant departments and subsidiaries across Mezzan to ensure timely availability of data (e.g., Finance, IT, BUs) for effective data management.
• Develop and implement plans to identify data gaps, improve data availability, quality, and timeliness to enhance existing data collection methods and support risk management processes.
• Drive the automation of risk data gathering and validation processes, overseeing the creation and maintenance of data extraction and processing queries to streamline data access, reporting, and analysis.
• Provide data support and automation assistance to the risk management functions to facilitate effective implementation of risk management procedures.
• Supervise the data reconciliation and validation with financial control, IT, business units, and subsidiaries to ensure adherence to established risk management standards.
• Design, establish, and maintain a robust Risk Management Information System (RMIS) as per the Group ERM Framework and Reporting Protocols.
• Analyze big data and provide solutions in conjunction with IT & SAP teams.
• Manage the Risk Management Information System (RMIS) & coordinate all necessary changes with system admins / service provider.
• Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and calculating EMVs (Expected Monetary Values) to all applicable types of financial risks.
• Review process understanding working papers prepared by Risk Analysts as well as explaining the link between the Group structure, systems, processes and risk practices.
• Review and analyze relevant metrics and KRIs as per the KRI Program Plan designing KRI trend analysis and reports accordingly.
• Design and implement an overall risk management process for Mezzan, which includes an analysis of the financial impact on the company when risks occur.
• Analyze current risks, identify potential emerging risks, and evaluate Group’s historical risk management performance comparing potential risks against established criteria (e.g., cost, legal requirements).
• Prepare and maintain Risk Appetite, Risk Incidents, Country-wide, Division-wide, and Business Unit-wide Dashboards as per the risk management plan.
• Develop Business Division Risk Reports for assigned risk area / categories as per the risk management plan.
  
  

Job Category

Shared services (Head Office)

Job Description

• Identify risk data sources and coordinate with the relevant departments and subsidiaries across Mezzan to ensure timely availability of data (e.g., Finance, IT, BUs) for effective data management.
• Develop and implement plans to identify data gaps, improve data availability, quality, and timeliness to enhance existing data collection methods and support risk management processes.
• Drive the automation of risk data gathering and validation processes, overseeing the creation and maintenance of data extraction and processing queries to streamline data access, reporting, and analysis.
• Provide data support and automation assistance to the risk management functions to facilitate effective implementation of risk management procedures.
• Supervise the data reconciliation and validation with financial control, IT, business units, and subsidiaries to ensure adherence to established risk management standards.
• Design, establish, and maintain a robust Risk Management Information System (RMIS) as per the Group ERM Framework and Reporting Protocols.
• Analyze big data and provide solutions in conjunction with IT & SAP teams.
• Manage the Risk Management Information System (RMIS) & coordinate all necessary changes with system admins / service provider.
• Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and calculating EMVs (Expected Monetary Values) to all applicable types of financial risks.
• Review process understanding working papers prepared by Risk Analysts as well as explaining the link between the Group structure, systems, processes and risk practices.
• Review and analyze relevant metrics and KRIs as per the KRI Program Plan designing KRI trend analysis and reports accordingly.
• Design and implement an overall risk management process for Mezzan, which includes an analysis of the financial impact on the company when risks occur.
• Analyze current risks, identify potential emerging risks, and evaluate Group’s historical risk management performance comparing potential risks against established criteria (e.g., cost, legal requirements).
• Prepare and maintain Risk Appetite, Risk Incidents, Country-wide, Division-wide, and Business Unit-wide Dashboards as per the risk management plan.
• Develop Business Division Risk Reports for assigned risk area / categories as per the risk management plan.
  
  

Skills

• Must have expertise in data analytics.
• Detail Oriented.
• Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills.
• Highly proficient in MS Office Applications.
• Ability to work in a team, strong work ethic, flexibility and adaptability.
  
  

Education/Qualifications

• Mandatory: Bachelors’ degree in Accounting, Risk Management, Business Administration, or Information Systems.
• Professional Certification(s) such as CRMA, RMP, CFE, CRA, etc. (Desirable)
• A minimum of 5-8 years in external audit, risk consulting, financial planning, analysis or relevant experience.
  
  

About The Business

Mezzan Holding Co.is one of the leading food, healthcare, and consumer conglomerates in the Middle East with a celebrated heritage of over 75 years. Headquartered in Kuwait with direct operational activities in Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Jordan Mezzan Holding Co: Employs 8,500 people (50+ nationalities) Distributes over 34,000 Stock Keeping Units (SKU) Serves over 100,000 meals a day in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE through its catering business. Has a total of 130,000 square meters in food, beverage and FMCG manufacturing facilities in Kuwait, Qatar, UAE. Represents some of the biggest names in the FMCG and healthcare industries.

Apply NowSeniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Finance and Sales
• Industries Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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