Due Diligence Analyst at MFS Africa

MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 320 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.

As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on world-class operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated by the FSC in Mauritius, BoG in Ghana, BoT in Tanzania, and FCA in the UK.

The MFS Africa team has doubled in the past year and continues to grow rapidly. Our people are talented, curious, and the reason our company does exceptional things. Excellence in nurturing our people and their passions is foundational to our success as a business.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Due Diligence Analyst

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Probationary

The Role

• We are looking for an experienced Partner Due Diligence Analyst to be part of the Group Due Diligence shared services function and team.
• The role will form part of the Group Due Diligence function in the company’s Operations division; and will look to form part of the Group’s expansion and onboarding functions at a strategic level.
• The Analyst will be required to ensure our company adheres to legal standards and in-house policies.
• You will be responsible for performing quality assurance of CDD (Customer Due Diligence), EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) reviews and Know-Your-Customer (KYC). We are looking for a person with either compliance and risk background or a compliance operations/quality assurance background who is comfortable operating independently, pragmatically and meeting strict regulatory deadlines.
• This position is based in Lagos, Nigeria and reports to the Manager, Group Diligence Operations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Undertake the process of CDD (Customer Due Diligence)/EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) for corporate customers (the "Partners”) across the Group’s multiple markets.
• Engage with existing Partners on continuous reviews of CDD/EDD information.
• Enhance CDD/EDD recordkeeping and reporting processes by updating partner CDD/EDD database with the most recent partner information.
• Generate and analyze data to support periodic management and compliance reports.
• Contribute to managing regulatory risk across the Group's multiple markets by contributing to an appropriate compliance culture and framework for the business.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of CDD/EDD processes-improvement to ensure efficiencies and continuous improvement of Partner onboarding execution.
• Maintain a detailed working knowledge of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regulations and those of other Partner regulators within the Group's footprint.
• Generally, uphold the company’s values.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Law, Finance, Business Administration or related field.
• 2-3 years relevant experience in KYC, risk and compliance operations / quality assurance.
• Pan-African exposure, experience, and expertise is advantageous.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate one’s views in a clear and concise manner.
• Superb analytical skills; can organize and analyse complex data sets.
• Effectively manage relationships with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) at various levels of seniority, operating at both a strategic and tactical level.
• Comfortable working in a complex, ambiguous and highly pressured environment.
• High propensity towards execution.
• Passionate about consistency, quality and integrity in governance, legal and regulatory risk management.
• Ability to easily grasp and comprehend AML risks specific to a particular business unit and develop extensive user requirements as well as recommend automated solutions to reduce those risks.
• In-depth knowledge of mobile money industry standards and regulations.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.