Compliance Analyst – Jumia at Jumia Nigeria

Jumia is a leading e-commerce platform in Africa. It is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners. JumiaPay facilitates the payments of online transactions for Jumia’s ecosystem. With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, Jumia believes that e-commerce is making people’s lives easier by helping them shop and pay for millions of products at the best prices wherever they live. E-commerce is also creating new opportunities for SMEs to grow, and job opportunities for a new generation to thrive.

With over 5,000 employees in more than 10 countries in Africa, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating sustainable impact in Africa. Jumia offers unique opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment, creating new jobs, new skills, and empowering a new generation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Compliance Analyst – Jumia

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• As a part of the Compliance team, you’ll be responsible for running manual searches and screening for onboarding corporate and individual customers. You will validate customers and partners details and carry out screening utilising a number of tools and data sources.

Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include, without being limited to:

• Perform KYC review on targeted customers and partners.
• Perform Due Diligence review on targeted customers and partners.
• Emit recommendations to management based on the findings of your investigations.
• Follow up with Partners and Customers in case of missing documentation.
• Various other tasks on KYC, sanctions screening or transactions monitoring.

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business management, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field from a recognized and accredited university.
• A Masters’ in any relevant field is an added advantage.
• Professional English level required. Chinese, French and/or Arabic is a plus.
• 1 – 2 years’ experience working in a fast-paced corporate environment preferably in a similar role and industry, in internal control, compliance, operations, logistic, commercial or finance.
• Adequate knowledge of the online marketplace model and ecommerce environment
• Understanding of KYC due diligence and Anti-Money Laundering checks for new and existing customers is a plus.
• Professional knowledge of Salesforce is a plus.
• Previous experience in a Customer Services environment is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Extremely rigorous and details oriented, you love to deep dive in complex cases.
• Autonomous, you are able to manage multiple deadlines with limited and remote management.
• Curious, you love learning new things and using new tools. You are able to learn by yourself.
• Bullet-proof professional ethic.

Other Required Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Must have strong leadership, organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines on schedule.
• English professional required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and Powerpoint) and Google Docs.

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures
• Competitive compensation

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.