Compliance & Regulatory Reporting Specialist AZA Finance

We’re looking for an experienced Financial Crime and AML expert, to bring our financial crime and AML operations up to speed. The right candidate should have a working knowledge of the remittance and payments landscapes and a passion for disruptive technology. Experience filing reports and engaging with the Bank of Uganda will be an added advantage.You will play a key role in shaping and delivering the company’s risk appetite, automation, operations and controls around fraud and AML. You will be working at the edge of financial services, helping to define and drive innovation at the interface between the digital services and conventional financial services.
While maintaining the customer experience and interests as a core objective, you will be responsible for setting high standards of legal and regulatory compliance, across all customer onboarding, transaction monitoring and investigations activities. You will seek to advance and protect the reputation of the firm and maintain a good knowledge of latest industry developments in applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
We aspire to lead the way in building a world-class compliance offering at the forefront of a technological revolution. If you think you’re up to the challenge we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities
• Driving the implementation and execution of our compliance processes for the selection, onboarding and monitoring of our customers, merchants and partners.
• Applying risk assessment procedures to appropriately identify and manage AML risks
• Suggesting and implementing – in close cooperation with the senior compliance management officer – adequate mitigation measures to reduce the AZA’s AML risk exposure
• Regulatory Liaison with the Bank of Uganda and other regulators in Uganda.
• Liaising and coordinating all activities for regulatory reporting to the Bank of Uganda
• Maintaining records and a complete and up-to-date documentation

Requirements
• 4+ experience as Compliance/Regulatory Compliance/Regulatory Reporting or equivalent in a regulated company.
• Experience in defining and implementing effective policies and procedures from scratch.
• ACAMs certification (added advantage)
• Understands the needs and dynamics of a start-up.
• Experience communicating with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong ability to communicate both written and verbally.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong knowledge of current and prospective regulation that impacts our business.
• Understanding of digital payments and remittances
• Been through an authorization process.
• Able to break down and articulate complex technical ideas.
• Excellent ability managing projects and prioritizing effectively.
• Proactive and accountable.
• Possess acute attention to detail.
• Passionate about disruption and changing the status quo.
• Preference for finding automated solutions.
• Product-minded and care about the customer journey/user experience.

Benefits
• Great career development opportunities in a fast-growing Fintech Company
• Ownership: All team members are empowered to bring ideas and make a difference in a dynamic and casual work environment
• 24 days statutory paid annual leave in addition to local public holidays, plus an extra day off for birthdays and days off for Christmas/New Year break
• Company funded private medical insurance: dental, medical, and optical services coverage based on your jurisdiction.
• Mentorship & buddy program
• Complimentary breakfast, snacks & drinks
• Team building and happy hours events.
• Employee mental health support
• Employee referral program