Compliance Due Diligence Manager at AZA Finance

AZA Finance is the largest non-bank in Africa and an established provider of Payments, FX and Treasury providing cross-border payment solutions which accelerate global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure. By leveraging cutting-edge technology with our proprietary technology, AZA Finance is able to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and across frontier markets.

Our API product provides both wholesale currency purchase and retail settlement via our robust API while our Web-Based platform is our B2B over-the-counter product that caters to businesses with wholesale currency needs, especially those paying partners and suppliers. Licensed by the UK’s FCA and the Bank of Spain, AZA Finance is a market-maker in every major African currency. AZA Finance was founded in 2013 and now has offices in Nairobi, Lagos, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Kampala, Accra, Durban and Dakar.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Compliance Due Diligence Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

As the Compliance Due Diligence Manager, you will be managing Manage day-to-day onboarding process as related to Customer due diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence for new and existing businesses (including high risk) across all markets to drive our global business growth and expansion.
Compliance onboarding is critical to our business as well as our compliance customer risk management program so we’re looking for an AML professional who is diligent, flexible, innovative, broad-minded with the relevant experience and skills, to help build the vision for excellent standards in KYC/CDD/EDD.
This is an exciting opportunity to take Africa’s leading digital F/X company to the next level.

Responsibilities

Conduct day-to-day compliance onboarding reviews of various businesses across all markets within defined SLA
Monitor the compliance onboarding team metrics relating to TATS, quality, quantity, error rates
Lead the periodic reviews and ongoing CDD trigger reviews
Identify and Lead process improvement initiatives required to optimize the CDD process
Ensure that all financial crimes risk events identified in the compliance onboarding process are duly escalated to senior management for mitigation measures.
Prepare training materials in collaboration with stakeholders for AML
Conduct KYC review of new customer information and documentation in line with AZA requirements and best practice
Be responsible for all Due Diligence record keeping processes, data analytics and MI reporting
Work closely with the customer success team improve the entire customer journey from onboarding to first transaction.
Effectively collaborate with key internal stakeholders – Sales, Lead Generators, Onboarders, Compliance, Legal, Account Mgt , Product to drive business growth
Display a high level of emotional intelligence, good communication & interpersonal skills.

Requirements

First Degree in Banking / Financial Institution or any related field
Evidence of ACAMS/ICA/ACFCS certification
Working knowledge of Financial crimes risk management in CDD operations
Experience working in a multinational financial institution is preferred
At least 5 years of experience in KYC/CDD/EDD in a banking or financial institution and specifically managing high risk customers and businesses and managing team.

What we are looking for:

Young professional who is ambitious and passionate
Flexibility, broad-mindedness, responsiveness, resilience are the key qualities required to thrive in this role
Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, communication and listening skill
Creative problem solver and sound decision-maker with the ability to work independently with minimal guidance
Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and multitask, when required
Strong attention to detail
Love helping customers and able to maturely handle all customer temperaments
Advanced Microsoft Office and Google Suite Tools skills along with the willingness and ability to become familiar with Company-specific sales tools/software
Experience working with Salesforce.com( Added Advantage)
Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success.