Financial Crime Specialist
Black Pen Recruitment
- Nigeria
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Any combination of relevant education and experience and/or related professional designations/certifications (CAMS, CFE, Audit) in this field is highly desirable.
- Minimum Required: Post-secondary degree in Compliance, Risk, Finance, Legal or equivalent combination of educational and work experience.
- Fluent English, French and Arabic are beneficial and a combination of local languages are essential for this role, as is a willingness to travel across your assigned region as necessary.
- 5-7 years' of work experience within the financial services industry, law enforcement/regulatory or cryptocurrency/fintech industry.
- Working knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act and AML Regulations, USA Patriot Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
- Ability to operate multi-nationally with internal business partners and external partners/third party vendors.
- Ability to work in a self-directed and remote environment.
- Demonstrated understanding of remittance or cryptocurrency type business practices, organisational structure and general policies and procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to draft clear and professional correspondence, reports and other documents of a legal, compliance and business nature.
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to appropriately work with confidential information.
- Ability to facilitate the collection of information through interviews, meetings etc.
- Ability to articulate and convey complex, conceptual information to various audiences verbally and in writing.
- Experience communicating with regulators and law enforcement agencies.
- Experience in public speaking and making clear and persuasive business presentations.
- Excellent demonstrated organisational skills, including time management, record keeping, self-scheduling, and follow-up.
- Must be a self-starter and be able to act independently.
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Support the execution and ongoing improvement of the hybrid Compliance and Anti-Fraud programs (encompassing fiat and cryptocurrency), CRMP, principles, standards, policy, and oversight expectations within assigned territory.
- Provide second line support and challenge to the business during onboarding and ongoing
- Advice on policy or procedural changes required to incorporate the identified changes.
- Ensure YC policies remain fit for purpose and appropriate for the changing regulatory and business environments.
- Provide guidance to the financial crime team and when required to aid wider team objectives.
- Ensure that key Financial Crime regulatory issues are reported to the Financial Crime Manager with options and recommendations analyzed to facilitate reporting to senior management.
- Assist in the design and provision of training to all bank staff.
- Monitoring of transactions (including OTC) and escalation of any exceptions.
- Undertake other tasks as and when reasonably required.
- Ensures the Global Compliance program is maintained and relevant.
- Consults with internal and external experts (legal, engineering, client services, product development, law enforcement, partners) to identify risks, best practice and expectations.
- Analyses internal and external information to gain additional intelligence regarding emerging risks in fiat money and cryptocurrency .
- Provides guidance and support to the Regional business and engineering through participation in new product/service or channel projects.
- Provides support for Third Party Vendor due diligence and Compliance Review activities.
- Provides guidance, policy interpretation and support to Partners within the region.
- Actively participates in management discussions on risk and participates in governance and risk committee meetings as appropriate.
- Facilitates internal audit, independent audit and regulatory queries and duties.
- Engaging with colleagues and key stakeholders internally and externally throughout the life of each investigation and nurturing these relationships.
- Supporting colleagues by coaching and sharing best practice.
- Contributing to the delivery of tactical and strategic improvements to the way our client works, including supporting as a subject matter expert on projects and change initiatives.