Director of Compliance

This is a remote position.

A global leader who is at the forefront of the financial services and FinTech space is seeking a Director of Compliance to join their dynamic and growing team. The company plays a modern and innovative role in enabling digitisation in the Commercial Banking and Crypto space. The company prides itself as one of the only providers which offer the ability to streamline account openings for the most complex of clients through human-in-the-loop verification of ANY document in their in-house validation team. The company places a lot of emphasis on culture and connection, making it a unique, collaborative, and comfortable environment for anyone to work in.

A bit about the role:

Reporting to the CEO of Africa, you would be responsible for ensuring the company remains compliant with both US and South African regulations and customer policies. This includes 1) designing, codifying, and managing their internal policies and procedures, 2) managing day-to-day compliance on an ongoing basis, and 3) supporting customer-facing teams as they share information with prospects and customers about their compliance.

Requirements

Your daily adventures include:

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Crafting a global risk and compliance program for the company, covering both their US and SA businesses

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Implement process and quality control measures including regulatory and best practice gap assessments

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Design and implement a policy governance process related to technology, security, and data protection, working closely with their Chief Information Security Officer

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Design controls to ensure the company consistently follows its policies and procedures, running internal audits to evaluate their adherence to their own policies and procedures

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Track regulatory or legislative changes in their customer markets to ensure the company remains compliant over time

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Lead the company through SOC 2 audits and improve control environments

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Support the US and SA sales teams with customer due diligence reviews, RFP responses, and implement a solution to streamline the process over time

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Design and implement a vendor due diligence process for the company s suppliers

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Occasionally US hours may be required from time to time

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Work with the Executive team and support them

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Keep Compliance records up to date and keep up to date with the new regulations

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Compile regular reports on risk and compliance performance that can be shared with management

What it takes to succeed:

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Have 8 years+ of experience, including compliance mgmt at banking, software, and/or technology

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Familiarity with data privacy regulation

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A Bachelor s degree or higher in disciplines such as Economics, Law, Accounting, or Finance

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Professional certification in compliance

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Worked in tech for financial institutions or at a company that sold software to financial institutions

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Understand banking processes

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Grown and recruited a compliance team before.

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Being comfortable with uncertainty and curious to figure out solutions and paths forward without complete information and data

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Resilience and tenacity to get the job done even in tough times

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Being a connector at the company: working collaboratively across departments and functions

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Be a patient teacher

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Be eager to learn and grow

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Appreciate both sharing and receiving, empathetic but open to feedback and seek mentorship to continually improve

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Humble confidence

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Give 2% extra

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Be transparent

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Be helpful

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Be real and have fun