Compliance Business Partner at Moniepoint Incorporated

Moniepoint 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.

Moniepoint Incorporated (formerly TeamApt Inc.) was founded with the vision to create a society where everyone experiences financial happiness. We are the parent company of TeamApt Limited, a Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) licensed Switch and Processor, and Moniepoint Microfinance Bank, a CBN-licensed Microfinance Bank.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Compliance Business Partner

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

About the Role

• You will be responsible for bringing together multiple stakeholders to ensure Compliance-related risks with Moniepoint’s products and services are understood, considered, and appropriately mitigated.
• You will also partner with the product team to develop and deploy products and services to ensure global compliance regulations. 

What You'll Get to Do

• Serve as the primary Compliance representative for Product development and enhancement to ensure Compliance-related risks of product changes are understood by all relevant stakeholders and addressed appropriately.
• Maintain extensive knowledge of products and services within the payments industry and understand the compliance risks (i.e., operational, financial crime, sanctions, fraud, data privacy, consumer protection risks) of those products and services.  
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the length and breadth of Moniepoint’s products and services.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of Compliance requirements and translate and describe those requirements to Product personnel.
• Facilitate the design, update and implementation of product risk assessments including compliance certificates for all products across Moniepoint.
• Drive Compliance involvement in early stages of product ideation, development, or changes.  Recommend strategies to enhance collaboration.
• Recommend potential Compliance controls to the Compliance Business Partner based on industry knowledge and knowledge of capabilities of the Product team. 
• Develop actionable product requirements documents for compliance.
• Understand Product challenges to implementation of compliance solutions and escalate/report risks, issues, and impact through Compliance. 
• Provide reasonable challenge to proposed implementation plans, as appropriate.
• Assist in determining the reasonability, viability, or effectiveness of proposed compliance controls.
• Maintain documentation of stakeholder approvals
• Collaborate with stakeholders such as Audit, Legal and Operations to identify when technology changes have downstream impacts to other units. 
• This role will also communicate directly with the relevant SVPs to determine impact to compliance systems.
• Conduct quarterly training sessions for product teams on compliance issues.

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

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Business Management, Commerce, Commerce in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role, preferably in the payment industry or banking. 
• Specific experience with compliance requirements and either liaising with Product, or direct experience in product development, preferred.
• Experience with writing actionable product requirements documents is a must.
• Proven leadership skills with ability to drive projects and implementations to completion.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to translate non-technical requirements into technical language and vice-versa, and communicate to the appropriate audience, required.
• Ability to prioritize multiple requests based on sound analysis of business need.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions.
• Ability to work effectively and drive results in a fast paced environment.
• Experience with an array of compliance-related systems, such as transaction monitoring, case management, or verification systems a must.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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