Compliance and Risk Officer at PayU Nigera

PayU is a leading online payment service provider dedicated to creating a fast and simple payment process for our merchants and buyers. We have and always will focus on matching merchants’ needs with consumers’ shopping and payments behavior.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Compliance and Risk Officer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description

We are seeking a goal-oriented, high energy and hardworking individual to join our team as Compliance and Risk Officer. PayU Nigeria operates in a high-velocity business (B2B) environment. There are also multiple PayU global group initiatives that require local implementation and monitoring.

Key Deliverables and Responsibilities

Implementing, and maintaining compliance policies and processes under the direction of the Global PayU Group, for example AML, CDD, ABAC, Competition Compliance and data privacy.
Researching and implementing industry best practices and processes for legal compliance
Identify and assess and drive the necessary treatment of any risk
Manage and formulate plans of action based on audit feedback
Ensuring all compliance and risk policies and procedures are up to date and implemented locally
Working closely with the Global to ensure transparency.

Education, Skills & Experience

2-4 years experience in a similar role of Risk and Compliance officer
Relevant qualification
Experience working in a global team
Financial Services / Technology experience is desirable
Ability to work in an open plan office
Highly flexible, adaptable and ability to handle pressure
Team-player, ability to manage diversity within the team in the local office and across jurisdictions
Communication and relationship management: establish strong working relationship with peers and stakeholders to manage administrative processes
Ability to work independently and be a self-starter
Ability to work effectively in a multi-national, multi-cultural organization to accomplish business and unit goals
High proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint.