Compliance Specialist

The Compliance area

is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the AML/CTF (LAFT) risk management framework of the company. As we build a financial institution from the ground up, this area plays a critical role in ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting the company from financial crime risks, and enabling sustainable and responsible growth aligned with supervisory expectations.

Challenges that await you:

• Co-building and scaling an AML/CTF (SARLAFT) framework from the ground up in a fast-growing fintech environment.
• Defining, implementing, and continuously improving customer risk segmentation, scoring models, and AML/CTF risk methodologies.
• Balancing robust regulatory compliance with a seamless, efficient, and customer-centric user experience.
• Performing data-driven risk analysis to support AML/CTF assessments, monitoring, and decision-making.
• Adapting quickly to regulatory changes and evolving supervisory expectations, translating them into actionable policies and controls.
• Operating effectively amid incomplete or evolving processes and systems, while helping design and formalize scalable solutions.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Compliance teams to embed AML/CTF controls by design.
• Managing ambiguity while maintaining high standards of governance, documentation, and risk escalation.
• Supporting audits, regulatory interactions, Board reporting, and ongoing effectiveness assessments of the AML/CTF program.

What makes you a great fit:

• Over 5 years of hands-on experience in AML/CTF across the financial sector and fintech environments.
• Proven ability to thrive in settings where processes are built from scratch, not inherited, and where structure evolves alongside growth.
• Highly proactive and hands-on, with the autonomy to deliver results effectively in environments with limited supervision.
• Strong regulatory expertise combined with an analytical, data-driven mindset to support sound risk-based decision-making.
• Creative, resilient, and deeply motivated to help build and scale a regulated financial institution from the ground up.
• Energized by fast-paced, high-impact environments and unafraid of hard work or complex challenges.
• Conversational English.

Our ways of working:

• Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions.
• Honest Feedback: Valuing open, transparent communication.
• Supportive Team: A strong, collaborative community.
• Celebrating Achievements: Recognizing our wins together.
• High-Tech Environment: A team full of smart and revolutionary people who dare to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances.