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🧭 Permanent
🔍 Financial Services
- A LLB degree and admission as Attorney.
- Approximately five years of relevant experience in a Regulatory role, gained in a law firm or in-house environment.
- Expert knowledge of and experience in operating in an African cross-border financial services (payments or lending) legal and regulatory environment.
- An understanding of data privacy, AML/KYC, credit reporting, tax and/or outsourcing frameworks and regulation.
- Significant experience engaging directly with regulators and managing new license processes.
- A track record of interpreting and navigating regulations and defining strategy in an evolving legislative environment.
- Fluency, both written and spoken, in English.
- Identify, track and manage regulatory issues across all our markets of operation currently in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, South Africa and Benin.
- Work with the Head of Department to advise on and shape global regulatory strategy.
- Be responsible for regulator engagement (working closely with the General Manager // In-Market Operations, local country management and strategic delivery teams) and project management of new license processes.
- Scope new territories and products for understanding of legal framework (legal, regulatory, capital restrictions, shareholding restrictions, AML and KYC requirements, credit reporting, consumer protection, data privacy, and cross-border data flow requirements and challenges).
- Oversee regulatory runway of pending legislation and work with the business to develop necessary controls to comply with it.
- Oversee in-house regulatory requirements & manage all regulatory queries and interpret and advise thereon.
- Advise on regulatory issues arising from our partner and key stakeholder relationships.
- Oversee and coordinate outside regulatory counsel where their services were retained.
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