Team Lead, KYC / Due Diligence (Remote) at Moniepoint Incorporated

Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, KYC / Due Diligence

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• We are looking for a Team Lead, KYC/ Due Diligence to ensure that our operations and business transactions follow all relevant legal and internal rules.
• You will also review employees’ work and provide advice on compliance.
• The main goal will be to ensure we operate in a legal and ethical manner while meeting our business objectives.
• If this excites you, it excites us too and we would love to have you.

Responsibilities
What you’ll get to do:

• Carry out quality assurance aka second-level review of KYC Documents of customers to ensure appropriate documents were provided for the products they subscribed to.
• Implement annual field compliance plans across the agent base of TeamApt.
• Be responsible for ensuring PEP & UBO registers are up to date and in line with best practices.
• Coach, train, and mentor field staff across the country.
• Play an active role in reviewing policies and procedures, including ensuring they are up to date with all legislation and best practices.
• Develop, coordinate, and oversee internal and external audit procedures for monitoring and detecting any misconduct or noncompliance; if any misconduct or noncompliance is detected, recommend a solution and follow up to ensure that the non-compliance is resolved
• Provide general advisory support and guidance on KYC related enquiries.
• Carry out CDD & EDD on customers of TeamApt.
• Take action in dealing with non-compliance situations, creating realistic plans to overcome them.
• Report to the Chief Compliance Officer concerning the organization’s compliance level with AML/CFT/CPF and Customer Due Diligence laws and regulations.
• Handle any other task assigned by the Chief Compliance Officer

Requirements
To succeed in this role, we think you should have:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 5 years of Compliance experience.
• Ability to work unsupervised.
• Compliance Certification e.g. DCP or ACAMs
• Knowledge of laws and regulations affecting the business area.
• Ability to interpret laws and regulations in light of operations.
• Deep knowledge of the TeamApt’s Products, Services, Processes and Policie.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.