FinCrime Insights & Systems Analyst

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable envied and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline manage their operations and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence innovation and customer satisfaction.

Role Overview

Our client just stood up a critical new position within the Financial Crime function: FinCrime Insights & Systems Analyst. This is a build-from-the-ground-up opportunity for someone who wants to shape how our client detects reports on and gets ahead of AML and fraud risk across both fiat and crypto across every jurisdiction they operate in. Youll sit at the intersection of datasystems and financial crime strategy. You will be a critical enabler for our clients AML and fraud teams. The insights tooling and reporting you produce will directly power how they do their jobs from investigations to decisioning to strategy. One day youll be with Product and Engineering scoping a new fraud signal; the next youre spotting an emerging typology before it becomes a real problem or sitting with our fraud & AML team setting up proactive rules. Youll report directly to the Technical Financial Crime Manager and have real ownership over the tools and insight that power our AML and fraud capabilities.

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Location: Cape Town

Workplace: Hybrid

Requirements

• Experience working within a Financial Crime function (AML fraud or both) ideally in fintech payments banking or crypto
• Strong SQL skills comfortable independently querying joining and interrogating large datasets
• Hands-on experience with dashboard/BI tools (e.g. Looker Tableau Metabase Power BI) to build and maintain reporting
• Familiarity with applying AI/ML tools to financial crime use cases whether thats typology detection anomaly detection or using AI to accelerate analysis.
• A genuine interest in how fraud and money laundering typologies evolve particularly across fiat and crypto rails
• Comfortable operating across multiple regulatory jurisdictions and translating regulatory reporting requirements into practical systems and workflows
• Strong cross-functional collaborator able to work fluently with engineers product managers and frontline AML/fraud analysts alike
• A builders mindset: someone who sees a gap in tooling process or insight and wants to go fix it not just flag it

Nice to have

• Experience with crypto/blockchain analytics tools (e.g. Chainalysis Elliptic TRM Labs)
• Exposure to rules-engine or case-management platforms (unit 21 Actimize Feedzai ComplyAdvantage Sardine)

Responsibilities

Reporting & alerting

• Own end-to-end AML and fraud reporting framework and alerting framework across fiat and crypto ensuring outputs are accurate timely and regulator-ready across all our jurisdictions. Work with our clients AML team fraud team and Data to define and report on their KPIs within the respective spaces

Enabling AML & Fraud teams

• Be the critical insights engine behind our AML and fraud teams giving them the data dashboards and analysis they need to investigate faster decide with confidence and work proactively rather than reactively

Systems & tooling

• Manage and improve the systems that power financial crime detection and response and build new tools where gaps exist with Data Product & Engineering

Typology intelligence

• Proactively identify and call-out emerging AML and fraud typologies building the analytical capability to spot them earlier and faster for our AML & fraud teams

Rules engine

• Assist in managing and continuously improving our AML and fraud rules engine tuning for both detection effectiveness and false-positive reduction

Cross-functional controls

• Partner with Product Engineering Data fraud and AML teams to design and implement proactive controls before risk materialises not just after

Signals development

• Work with Product Engineering DataAML and fraud to build and maintain the AML and fraud signals that feed our detection systems

Why join

• Direct ownership of a high-visibility function within our clients Financial Crime team
• The chance to build systems and tooling from scratch not inherit legacy processes
• Work across fiat and crypto across multiple African jurisdictions at a company processing large transaction volume
• Report directly into the Technical Financial Crime Manager with a clear seat at the table on strategy.