AML Transaction Monitoring Analyst
Wave Mobile Money is a financial technology company providing affordable mobile money services across Africa.
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About Wave Mobile Money Inc.
Wave Mobile Money builds and operates a mobile financial network intended to help make Africa the first cashless continent. Its consumer services enable users to deposit and withdraw money, send funds, pay bills, buy airtime, and access customer support through mobile applications and agents. Wave Business provides bulk payments, in-person merchant payments, cash collection tools, a business portal, and checkout APIs. The company serves consumers, agents, merchants, businesses, and other clients across multiple African countries.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will investigate AML monitoring alerts and suspicious transactions, prepare suspicious transaction reports, and help improve monitoring controls. You will support report reviews, regulatory embargo implementation, law-enforcement information requests, dashboards, and financial-security training.
Requirements
- Proficiency in spoken and written French and English
- Bachelor's degree or above in IT, finance, criminology, risk management, or a related discipline
- At least 3 years of relevant AML transaction monitoring or sanctions screening experience at a financial institution
- Knowledge of AML/CFT risks
- Knowledge of UEMOA financial security regulations
Responsibilities
- Conduct investigations on AML transaction-monitoring alerts
- Improve alerts to reduce false positives and prioritize suspicious activity
- Review reports generated by other analysts
- Identify transaction-monitoring weaknesses and propose improvements
- Generate financial-security reports and dashboards
- Conduct investigations into suspicious transactions and activities
- Prepare suspicious transaction reports
- Support implementation of regulatory embargo restrictions
- Gather information relating to law-enforcement and financial-intelligence requisitions
Benefits
- Health insurance for employees and dependents
- 26 weeks of leave for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers
- Subsidized child care
- Subsidized gym memberships and fitness classes
- Airtime reimbursement
- Free food