Senior Compliance Manager at Nium

Description

What’s the story?

Nium is a next-generation financial services platform  that enables companies around the world to unlock new revenue opportunities and improve cash flow economics

Nium is a leader in its geographical and payment service breadth, owning licenses in the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies. Our modular platform allows banks, payment providers, travel companies, and other businesses to collect and disburse funds in local currencies to over 100 countries, plus issue physical and virtual cards globally. Our proprietary set of APIs embeds financial services and can bring to life multiple B2B and B2C use cases in a matter of weeks.

Nium is part of CB Insights Fintech 250, which highlights the most promising Fintech companies globally. Today, Nium serves over 130 million customers and enables platforms to provide access to financial services to over 3 billion people across the world.

Where do you come into the picture?

We are looking to appoint a Senior Compliance Manager for our growing African business area. Working as part of the global Compliance Team, you will be a subject matter expert for compliance in Africa. Our Compliance team is responsible for the detection and prevention of financial crime including fraud, money laundering, and terrorist financing.

What would a day in your life @ Nium look like?

• Advise and guide a number of change projects and new product developments from a financial crime perspective

• Work on process improvements and automation

• Assist in the development and ongoing improvement of policies and procedures

• Deal with queries from law enforcement, banking providers, clients, and regulators

• Act as a subject matter expert for the business on compliance-related matters

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience in financial crime management ideally in the payments space, one of which should have been in a managerial position

• Detailed understanding of financial crime typologies in payments

• Previous PEPs and Sanctions monitoring exposure and understanding of the screening lists

• Hands-on Transaction Monitoring Experience

• Experience in fraud prevention techniques, fraud investigation, and management

• Ability to assess risks and evaluate impacts and develop appropriate, proportionate responses

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team as well as to accomplish tasks with minimal supervision within tight deadlines

• Ability to identify red flags and suspicious activity relating to AML, CTF and fraud

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Advanced Excel skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Insurance

• Home Office setup allowance

• Training & Development

• 24x7 Employee Assistance Program

• Recognition framework

• Generous Parental and Family leave