Compliance Officer at Flutterwave

• As our Compliance Officer (Nigeria), your primary responsibility will be to act as an ambassador for Flutterwave’s compliance culture and standards demonstrating the highest standards of compliance behaviour and to raise awareness of regulatory requirements and compliance policies.
• As well as to provide an advisory role for regulatory aspects across the business, ensuring best practice and adherence to Flutterwave’s compliance and regulatory policies and procedures.

What Your Day to Day Activities Will Be Like

• Complete KYC/DDF quality assurance for our Nigerian merchants and vendors.
• Maintain regulatory licenses for Nigeria
  • Regulatory reporting and filling.
  • Regulatory liaison.
  • Lead related audits and own remediation of any audit findings.
• Ensure Flutterwave operations in Nigeria is in compliance with all regulatory obligation including schemes/acquiring bank rules.
• Build trust with Flutterwave’s Nigeria regulators, acquiring banks and card/payment schemes.
• Manage and coordinate meaningful reporting internally and externally, respond to information requests and proactively communicate regulatory changes and notifiable events.
• Review and test Flutterwave’s risk and compliance programs and processes. Identify gaps and take ownership of resolution.
• Act as the in-country Nigeria Money Laundering Reporting Officer. Taking responsibility for AML and Financial Crime compliance;
• Support and advise the Nigerian business leads on compliance matters.
• Develop, implement and maintain Business Continuity plans for the Nigerian Market;
• Provide support for the maintenance of  Flutterwave’s externally accredited quality management systems – ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 22301:2012 – assist during the management review and particularly the review of the internal audit reporting system.
• Maintain an up to date high level of knowledge and understanding of internal policies and procedures, including ‘Compliance’, ‘Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing’, ‘Financial Crime’, ‘Customer Due Diligence’, ‘Treating Customers Fairly’, ‘Complaints Management’, ‘Client Assets’, ‘Anti-Bribery and Corruption’, ‘Conflicts of Interest’, ‘Market Abuse and Personal Dealing’, ‘Gifts, Benefits and Entertainment’.