Head of Compliance and Risk
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 lead compliance and risk activities in the DRC, maintain policies and controls, monitor regulatory requirements, and manage regulator relationships. You will oversee AML/CFT support, risk mapping, internal controls, remediation, compliance training, and local fraud escalation.
Requirements
- Professional or native fluency in French and English
- 7–10 years of compliance, risk management, or regulatory affairs experience
- At least 3 years of senior leadership experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, law, economics, risk, or a related field
- Experience leading compliance for a regulated financial services company or fintech in the DRC
- Experience engaging with the BCC
- Knowledge of mobile money, e-money, and digital financial services regulation
Responsibilities
- Define the DRC compliance program strategy
- Advise leadership and the board on compliance matters
- Maintain compliance policies, procedures, and risk controls
- Monitor regulatory frameworks and ensure internal alignment
- Support AML and CFT investigations and submit suspicious transaction reports
- Monitor KYC and onboarding controls
- Manage relationships with regulators, banking partners, and local bodies
- Coordinate regulatory audits, inquiries, filings, and reporting
- Develop responses to non-compliance incidents
- Lead compliance training and education
- Identify and evaluate operational risks
- Maintain local risk mapping and mitigation strategies
- Design and implement second-level internal controls
- Track remediation actions from internal control reviews
- Coordinate local fraud investigations and awareness efforts
- Escalate fraud signals and trends
Benefits
- Health insurance for employees and dependents
- 26 weeks of maternity leave
- 4 weeks of paternity leave
- Subsidized childcare
- Subsidized gym memberships and fitness classes
- Airtime reimbursement
