Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)Incorporation and Registration Specialist, QA Team Lead
Sep. 2015Athens, Attiki, Greece- Reviewing various types of incorporation applications for diverse entity types with a strong focus on financial authorisations, RegLab/FinTech and funds (but also including SPVs, foundations, non-financial LTD/branches, Tech Start Up, cell companies, investment partnerships etc.)
- Conducting in-depth KYC checks on applicants and submitting recommendations for authorisation/incorporation (including complex applications for continuance from foreign jurisdictions into ADGM). This includes thorough beneficial ownership investigation in accordance with the ADGM Beneficial Ownership & Control Regulations.
- Assisting with review of existing legislation and suggested amendments to adjust to the rampant developments in an evolving jurisdiction.
- Close cooperation with the monitoring and enforcement team to identify and close potential loopholes in compliance areas.
- Customer facing - handling applicant/client queries surrounding the Registration Authority's incorporation process, managing relationships with corporate service providers, law firms and other external agencies.
- QA Team Lead: - Developing new functionalities and leading user acceptance testing for new services in the online registry solution (includes all registries, i.e. companies, partnerships, auditors, charges, real property, foundations). This includes the full life-cycle commencing with identifying and drafting the change/enhancement requests, reviewing business catalogs, overseeing the creation and execution of test cases, finding and reporting bugs using JIRA/TFS/Salesforce/catalyst, manually testing bug fixes and assessing impact on live production system. Preparing test plans, reviewing test results from team members.