Ria Money Transfer is hiring a Head of compliance Africa.
Job Description
Ria’s compliance department is the best-in-class global anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-terrorist financing (ATF) compliance department. For this reason, we strive to support the growth of our business with the reinforcement of our compliance department.
Compliance Officer Africa will observe, listen, coach, and develop compliance resources to provide first class risk management, customer service to customers as well as meeting shareholder expectations in operational compliance performance and efficiency. This role requires a leader with strong operational, analytical, problem solving, decision making and interpersonal skills which will enable them to build strong relationships with both our internal and external stakeholders, implement strategies to ensure business complies with its AML/CTF obligations, ensure employees are highly skilled, engaged, and motivated.
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:
- Hands on, the Compliance Officer of Africa is in charge of leading, supervising and managing all aspects of the AML/CTF program in the region including but not limited to Risk Management, Due Diligence, KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Correspondent, Global Agent and 3rd party Onboarding, Correspondent Visitation, KYC update process and AML/CTF training.
- Manage the compliance aspects of the expansion to new countries throughout the correspondent network or under Ria´s own license if applicable.
- Improve the Company’s processes and policies to ensure optimization and efficiency.
- Lead the implementation of new tools and systems to prevent money laundering, terrorism financing, fraud and any other financial crime.
- Manage relationships with internal and external auditors, regulators and banking partners.
- Encourage open communication and recognize the importance of building strong relationships with business, creating an environment of trust.
- A previous work experience in the compliance area of the financial sector.
- Experience/knowledge of Anti Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing and/or Fraud issues in a financial institution.
- Very literate in IT with good commands in Excel, VBA, Power BI, SQL and other Business Intelligence and Data Science tools.
- Excellent communications skills.
- Ability to work in teams and to multitask.
- Target oriented. Analytical and focused person with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong personality to defend Compliance position in front of different audiences and keep strong despite the pressure
Qualifications
- Lawyer, Economics or Business Administration Bachelor’s degree.
- Courses, certificate, or studies in Compliance related matters (CAMS, ICA or similar).
- Previous experience in AML/CTF environment or Compliance Risk management.
- Strong analytical, operational and problem-solving skills are a must.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated, with the ability to follow-through with the high-level task given.
Personal Effectiveness
- Acts with integrity
- Demonstrates adaptability
- Strong work ethic and exceptional attention to detail
- Diligent, efficient and able to manage multiple conflicting deliverables including working under pressure
- High level of professionalism, self-motivation, and sense of urgency
- Ability to Identify problems, determine possible solutions, and actively work to resolve the issues.
Management Work and Performance
- Ability to assign work and to establish work rules and acceptable levels of quality and quantity of work.
- Ability to review work and evaluate performance of others, and to develop individuals’ competencies
- Ability to establish expectations and clear direction to meet goals and objectives of on-going work for a group of employees.
- Ability to motivate and engage employees through effective communication.
- Ability to work on his own with independence and effectivity.
Interpersonal qualities
- Sensitive to cultural differences
- Influences others at all levels
- Builds relationships and act in collegial spirit among colleagues
- Possess the personal impact to command respect throughout the group and with the customers and agents.
- Ability to provide guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge, skills and abilities to accomplish a task or solve a problem, which in turn should improve job performance
- Ability to plan and support the development of others through a competency-based system.
- Ability to Identify knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to fulfill current or future job/role responsibilities effectively.
About Us
We’re Ria Money Transfer
A subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), Ria is a leading expert in cross-border payments that delivers innovative financial services including fast, secure, and affordable international money transfers. With the second most extensive cash settlement network and the largest direct bank deposit network in the world, Ria gets money to where it matters. We’re focused on harnessing technology and, as part of Euronet Worldwide, we provide a suite of state-of-the-art fintech products and services that bridge the gap between digital and physical transactions. Our omnichannel products and services, provide unprecedented choice to our customers and growth opportunities for our partners.
With presence in more than 160 countries, and more than 490,000 locations worldwide, we’re committed to helping millions of people send money home to their loved ones around the world, knowing that our customers deserve much more than just a fair price: they deserve empathy, hope, and ultimately respect. Join us in our mission to open ways for a better everyday life.
Closing date : 16 February 2022.