Financial Crime

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of AML analysts by providing regular feedback, tailored coaching, and early performance support.
• Oversee the review of systematic alerts triggered by suspicious activity, ensuring every investigation is thorough, well-reasoned, and clearly documented from first review through to closure or escalation.
• Perform independent quality reviews of completed TM investigation decisions before closure or escalation.
• Proactively identify issues and inefficiencies in processes and drive solutions through a mix of partnerships, technology, process, and procedure changes.
• Track and report on key team metrics, including SLA adherence, QA pass rates, and false-positive trends, using these insights to guide coaching and process improvements.
• Partner with compliance on complex or high-risk cases and represent the team's findings clearly when escalating to senior stakeholders.
• Keep up to date with evolving AML typologies and regulatory expectations relevant to LemFi's markets.
• Flag control weaknesses, high-risk cases, or tooling/process issues to leadership promptly and clearly, following agreed protocols.

AML Ops Lead – Transaction Monitoring

• Ensure that Kora remains compliant with all regulatory requirements regarding AML/CFT/PFW.
• Provide support and advice on compliance issues e.g. all business units, new products, new jurisdictions, and new regulatory initiatives.
• Assist as and when required, in the development, drafting, and updating of procedures/processes/policies and related training programs/manuals and the delivery of training that is tailored to the operations & finance units' needs.
• Review, test, and recommend updates to Kora’s AML/CFT/CPF operations, standards, and controls.
• Carry out KYC on new merchants and conduct on-doing due diligence on existing merchants.
• Assist in implementing compliance measures and determine appropriate remedial action plans (including, where necessary, timeframes and responsibilities).
• Draft, manage, and execute policies and procedures that govern the organization's enterprise AML/CFT/CPF) program.
• Conduct transaction monitoring and generate STR/SAR reports.
• Ensure that the organization complies with existing and developing international and national laws and regulations.
• Carry out periodic evaluations of the compliance programs and make appropriate changes and improvements.
• Handle end-to-end process flow for all requests and enquiries from regulators and LEAs.
• Ensure Kora follows its year-on-year training plan by owning the Compliance training and awareness function.

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AML Ops Lead – Transaction Monitoring

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