The Compliance Analyst plays a critical role in protecting Vista from legal, regulatory, financial, and reputational risk by ensuring compliance with global laws. This role focuses on screening, reviewing, and escalating potential sanctions concerns related to customers, bookings, payments, business partners, and operational activities across Vista’s global network.

Vista is the world’s leading global business aviation company, providing worldwide business flight services through its network of subsidiaries and a team of over 4,000 experts. A global group headquartered in Dubai, Vista integrates a unique portfolio of companies to offer asset-free services that cover all key aspects of business aviation, including guaranteed and on-demand global flight coverage, subscription and membership solutions, and trading and management services.  

A career at Vista means stepping into an environment where you’re trusted with real autonomy and responsibility from day one. Whether you're keeping our aircraft airworthy, flying our clients across the globe, or working in one of our corporate teams, you’ll move fast, deliver impact quickly, and grow through hands‑on learning and close collaboration within a supportive global community.  

The analyst will work closely with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Commercial, and operational teams to ensure that Vista maintains a robust and efficient compliance framework.

• Conduct daily sanctions screening of passenger bookings, payment transactions, and business partners using approved screening tools.
• Review and analyse potential sanctions “hits” to determine whether they are true matches, false positives, or require escalation.
• Investigate cases involving sanctioned individuals, entities, restricted countries, or flight destinations.
• Ensure adherence to sanctions regulations in the relevant jurisdictions in which Vista operates.
• Monitor changes to global sanctions regimes and assess their impact on routes, customers, and airline operations.
• Support the AML Officer with ongoing AML and KYC reviews and maintenance of the AML framework
• Support the Compliance team in completing compliance risk assessments and enhance the compliance framework accordingly.
• Support preparation of internal reports, compliance dashboards, and regulatory notifications.
• Maintain accurate documentation related to sanctions decisions, investigations, and escalations.
• Assist in updating sanctions policies, procedures, and controls.
• Support the delivery of sanctions awareness training to frontline and commercial staff across the business.
• Support ongoing optimisation of automated screening systems, data quality, and matching logic.

• Experience in sanctions compliance, financial crime, AML, risk management, or related investigative roles.
• Strong understanding of global sanctions frameworks.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex regulatory language and apply it to real-world operations.
• Strong written communication skills for documenting assessments and decisions.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and make time‑critical decisions.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• High level of integrity and sound judgement.
• Collaborative and comfortable supporting colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.
• Proactive, curious mindset with a strong risk sense and willingness to challenge.
• Commercial acumen with good level of business exposure, ideally in the airline or related industry.