Vacancies at Luno

The role in a nutshell:

You will form part of the Compliance Operations team based in Cape Town, reporting to the Manager Compliance Operations. You will work in a fast paced environment, collaborating with other business units, including Engineering, Product and Legal teams, servicing the business on an international level together with the teams from South East Asia, Africa and Europe.

Your mission will be:

• Supporting Luno’s compliance efforts across multiple geographies
• Following policies and procedures to ensure compliance with regulations, including but not limited to Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customers (KYC)
• Conducting transaction monitoring and account review for potentially suspicious behaviour
• Reporting on and presenting compliance related data
• Filing STR and other regulatory reports
• Assist with other ad-hoc compliance requests pertaining to transaction monitoring and customer behaviour

A little about you:

• University degree from a recognised tertiary institution
• Keen interest in AML/CFT industry
• Strong analytical mindset 
• Ability to adapt within a fast-paced environment
• Strong attention to detail, report writing and documenting outcomes of investigations 
• High proficiency in English
• If not a South African citizen, an existing, valid permit to work in South Africa
• Entrepreneurial, strong sense of responsibility and very high level of integrity
• Solid interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
• Friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed
• Familiarity with crypto-currencies will be highly advantageous

Life at Luno:

• Forward-thinking and ambitious team that values diversity, hard work, and the continuous quest for excellence.
• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance.
• Free training courses on Udemy and CodeAcademy.
• 0 fees with Luno from the day you start.
• Generous maternity / paternity and even paw-ternity for your furry friend.
• Annual Inspiration Day.
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts.
• Free lunch and snacks.
• Free access to Headspace – a full library of guided meditations, sleep stories, and music.

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Your mission will be:

• Supporting Luno’s market surveillance efforts across multiple regions;
• Facilitating compliance with regulations to ensure the market is operated in an orderly, fair and transparent manner;
• Reviewing alerts to ensure compliance with rules governing trading, clearing and settlements of transactions on the exchange;
• Filing regulatory reports to ensure compliance and deepening trust with regulators;
• Collaborate with the wider Financial Crime and Liquidity team to support ad-hoc requests and queries;
• Helping to scale the capability and capacity of the team through the use of technology.

You will enjoy this role if you have:

• A BSc, BEng, BComm or other relevant qualification from an accredited college/university in Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Math or a related quantitative field of study.
• At least 3 years experience in a financial markets related role within a trading or compliance environment;
• Strong analytical, detail oriented mindset
• A fundamental understanding of customer and transaction risk scoring models;
• Ability to conduct a quantitative analysis from varied information sources to investigate complex financial transactions;
• A can do, get things done attitude;
• Proficiency in English with sound interpersonal skills;
• An ethical, transparent approach to weighing in on customer activity.

In the first 3 months you will:

• Have a thorough functional understanding of Luno’s Financial Crime tools and integrations.
• Support the execution of the Market Surveillance efforts and operationalise initiatives.
• Identify and understand the challenges and propose solutions to circumvent them.
• Gain exposure to the cryptocurrency industry, transaction monitoring and financial crime.

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The role in a nutshell:

In this role, you’ll be providing support to the Transfer Pricing and International Tax Manager, to ensure that Luno meets its transfer pricing obligations. The role is based in Luno’s Tax team that forms part of Luno’s broader Finance team.

Your mission will be:

• Perform intercompany recharge calculations to ensure the transfer pricing policy is accurately and consistently applied across the group and that supporting documentation is in place.
• Work with external advisors to ensure that all transfer pricing returns required by legislation are timeously submitted and accurately reflect the group’s transfer pricing policies and charges. 
• Update the transfer pricing documentation (e.g. local files).
• Work with the wider Luno team to ensure intercompany agreements are in place and updated to support intercompany transactions.
• Work with the Luno Finance team to provide support on transfer pricing matters to external auditors and ensure that related party transactions are accurately and completely disclosed in the annual financial statements.
• Assist with responses to revenue authority transfer pricing queries and audits. 
• Monitor intercompany loan transactions and balances and ensure that exchange control implications are considered and supporting documentation is in place.
• Monitor and work with the wider Luno team to identify changes to the business, analyse the impact of these changes on transfer pricing policies and compliance and implement required changes. 
• Monitor global transfer pricing and international tax developments, analyse the potential impacts on the group and implement required changes. 
• Assist with international tax compliance and matters, including: 
  • withholding tax compliance in respect of related cross border charges, relief provided by double tax agreements.
  • support the Tax team to respond to revenue authority queries and audits.
  • assist with ad hoc tax related projects or tax compliance, e.g. tax considerations for launching into a new country, any product changes required due to tax legislation, e.g. digital taxes, proposed investments. 

A little about you:

• Finance professional certification (CA (SA), SAIT, CIMA, SAIPA)
• Minimum of 2 years transfer pricing and international tax experience in a multinational company or in consulting.
• Advanced excel skills.
• Strong attention to detail. 
• Practical, problem solving mindset. 
• The ability to build strong, mutually respectful relationships with diverse teams, and to deal with multiple different teams, countries and issues on any given day.

Nice-to-haves

• Postgraduate qualification in Taxation
• Transfer pricing and international tax experience in South Africa, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Nigeria, Australia and Singapore.
• An interest in and enthusiasm for crypto.

Life at Luno:

• Forward-thinking and ambitious team that values diversity, hard work, and the continuous quest for excellence.
• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance. 
• Free training courses on Udemy and CodeAcademy.
• Generous maternity / paternity and even paw-ternity for your furry friend.
• Annual Inspiration Day.
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts. 
• Free lunch and snacks.
• Free access to Headspace – a full library of guided meditations, sleep stories, and music.
• 0 fees with Luno from the day you start.*