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Job Description

As the VP of Compliance at Deriv, you will assume a pivotal position in ensuring our Groups adherence to regulatory and statutory requirements across all areas of operation. Your expertise will play a key role in shaping and strengthening our compliance practices on a global scale. You will provide technical advice, undertake risk assessments, develop policies, and devise procedures to help the Group comply with relevant laws,regulations, and licensing requirements across its worldwide operations and building businesses in new markets.

Your challenges

  • Guide compliance excellence: Help steer the Deriv Group business by providing comprehensive compliance guidance and ensuring a deep understanding of applicable legislation for the Group and its subsidiaries. Your insights will be instrumental in aligning our operations with regulatory standards.
  • Navigate regulatory changes: Stay vigilant and monitor new and proposed changes in standards, legislation, and regulatory notifications. By promptly updating internal policies and procedures, you will ensure the Group remains ahead of the compliance curve.
  • Mitigate compliance risks: Identify and assess potential compliance risks, strategise effective mitigation measures, and share detailed risk reports. Your expertise will enable us to proactively address compliance and regulatory challenges, safeguarding the Groups reputation.
  • Create a collaborative compliance framework: Foster collaboration by liaising with Deriv Groups Head of Compliance and our Compliance teams worldwide. Through an aligned and holistic compliance framework, you will help strengthen our global compliance efforts and ensure consistency.
  • Engage with regulatory authorities: Act as a point of contact and build relationships with regulatory authorities and industry standards organisations as necessary. Your interactions will foster effective communication and a cooperative approach to compliance.
  • Perform strategic monitoring and planning: Develop and implement strategies for monitoring compliance and conducting audits, reviews, and action plans. By creating and revising the annual compliance work plan, you will ensure our practices efficiently align with evolving regulatory requirements.

Requirements

What you have

  • A university degree in finance, law, risk management, banking, financial services, payments, or another relevant field
  • 17+ years of experience in a compliance role
  • Deep understanding of corporate governance, anti-money laundering (AML), investment and/or payment services regulations, crypto asset regulatory
  • Frameworks and other relevant legislation
  • Experience in dealing with regulatory bodies
  • Solid understanding of legal requirements and controls
  • Excellent spoken and written English communication skills

Benefits

  • Market-based salary
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Medical insurance
  • Housing and transportation allowance
  • Casual dress code
  • Work permit
  • A chance to work with top talent from across the globe (70+ nationalities)
  • Ample team-building and bonding activities
  • Great overseas travel opportunities


Job Details

Role Level: Executive-Level Work Type: Full-Time
Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai
Company Website: https://www.deriv.com/careers Job Function: Legal & Compliance
Company Industry/
Sector:
Financial Services

What We Offer


About the Company

For 25 years, Deriv has been revolutionising global access to trading opportunities, now accelerated by AI innovation. Our award-winning platforms never sleep—processing millions of transactions daily across forex, stocks, cryptocurrencies, and synthetic indices for over 2.5 million customers in 150+ countries.With an AI-first mindset, we’re transforming how financial markets work. We’re all in on artificial intelligence and it’s how we work. Our global team of 1400+ curious minds across 20 offices in 15 locations drives innovation at every level. From engineering to marketing, product design to customer support, we’re reimagining our operations through AI. Our people have access to bleeding-edge LLMs, advanced frameworks, and the freedom to experiment with new workflows.Our culture encourages exploration, creativity, and calculated risk-taking—because that’s how breakthroughs happen. We’ve earned recognitions including the Great Place to Work certification in 8 countries, Best Workplace for Women in 2 countries, and Investors in People Platinum, with 90% of employees saying Deriv is a great place to work. Whether building technology, creating products, growing business, or supporting operations, our teams turn ideas into action.Our core values of integrity, customer focus, teamwork, and competence guide everything we do. And if you work with us, you’ll get to take on hard problems, innovate with the best, and create global reach. You’ll do your best work here. Join us to redefine the future of accessible online trading through AI innovation.

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