🙌 Your Mission
Your mission is take ownership of Compliance and Risk functions. In the Netherlands, we are in the process of getting our EMI license. You will be working closely with the MD of our Dutch Entity (NALA Payments BV) to ensure that our application is well structured and ready for review and approval by the DNB. From a global setting, you will be working closely with the global compliance team to ensure that we have a robust risk framework across the various jurisdictions that we operate in. The work you do will help provide more effective cross border payment services from the EU to various African nations, directly supporting our mission to build Payments for the Next Billion.
🎯 Your Responsibilities in this Role
- Project manage the creation and submission of the EMI license to the DNB
- Provide advise and support to our Compliance Operations team, ensuring that we are building a team with an automation first mindset making sure that we bake in operational efficiency at the source of our problem solving
- Work with the global compliance team to make sure that we are engaging in proactive horizon scanning to make sure that we risks to the business are raised and mitigated ahead of issues arising
- Work closely with the business to ensure that the Compliance team is a partner and not an obstacle - Compliance's job is not just to say no!
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in senior compliance roles within regulated financial institutions.
- Extensive knowledge of KYB/KYC, AML, CFT, and sanctions.
- Proven experience in the Payments and Fintech sectors in a Dutch and wider European context
- Deep expertise in Dutch regulations, working cloesly with the DNB for electronic money institutions
- First principled problem solver - with a focus on impact on the Customer
- A collaborative team player with passion to build, lead, and inspire a team
