Compliance Officer at Netzence Sustainability Limited

Role Summary

• The Compliance Officer will support the development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of the company’s compliance framework to ensure adherence to regulatory, legal, and internal policy requirements. This role works closely with risk, fraud, operations, product, and technology teams to embed compliance controls across all business processes. Ensure full regulatory compliance across Netzence’s FinTech operations, supporting AML/CFT, KYC, data protection, and internal control frameworks. FinTech experience is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and monitor AML/CFT, KYC, and transaction monitoring processes
• Investigate alerts generated from transaction monitoring and screening systems and document findings.
• Maintain accurate records of AML/KYC reviews, investigations, and regulatory reporting.
• Review and assess customer onboarding documentation to ensure completeness, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• Monitor transactions and customer behaviour for suspicious activity and potential financial crime risks.
• Support sanctions and PEP screening processes and escalation of high-risk customers (social media influencers, media personalities and others).
• Perform customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and ongoing customer monitoring activities to reduce or mitigate risk.
• Ensure compliance with CBN/SEC/FCA-aligned policies (as applicable)
• Conduct compliance reviews and internal audits quarterly or as required.
• Prepare monthly regulatory reports and respond to compliance inquiries.
• Support risk assessments and policy updates to mitigate risk and non-compliance.
• Train and retrain staff to ensure compliance requirements and standards are always up to date.
• Executive trainings on risk assessment and compliance of regulatory certificates to ensure the business is not exposed.

Requirements

• 4+ years in FinTech/financial services compliance
• Strong knowledge of AML/KYC frameworks
• High attention to detail and integrity
• Proven experience in compliance within a fintech, financial services, or regulated payments environment.
• Strong knowledge of applicable regulatory frameworks, including AML, CFT, KYC, sanctions, and data protection requirements.
• Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining compliance policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Ability to monitor regulatory changes and assess their impact on products, operations, and business processes.
• Hands-on experience conducting compliance monitoring, risk assessments, and internal reviews.
• Experience managing regulatory reporting, audits, and interactions with regulators or external auditors.