ZAMP FINANCE Hiring for Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Dubai Full Time

Background:

Zamp is a B2B focused fintech with a bold vision to reimagine the future of global business banking Imagine if business banking was seamless and magical – for a small startup in one country to a multinational across the world. Imagine if there was an elegant way to solve for the myriad of challenges that a CFO face today e.g:

• Working with multiple partners – for banking, payments, investments, debt, fx
• Optimizing yield on cash, while ensuring safety
• Optimizing working capital and cash conversion cycles
• Manual work needed for reconciliation, insights, analytics and planning
• Access to real-time company-wide data for optimal decision making

It’s a massive problem.. It’s a massive space.. What if we could build products and solutions to solve these problems for companies across the world. We are on a mission to solve exactly that – to make business banking and finance magical – one step at a time, continuously and steadily Our aspiration is global. Our customer focus is global. We are leveraging the latest technology and on a quest to build a global-best product. Join us in our rocketship journey

Our investors and founder:

We raised ~$22Mn in our seed funding round from Sequoia Capital and prominent angel investors such as Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO, Uber), Tony Xu (CEO, Doordash), Marcelo Claure (ex-CEO, Softbank International) – full list of investors here. Our founder is Amit Jain. Amit is an ex-Managing Director at Sequoia Capital in Singapore prior to starting Zamp. Prior to Sequoia, Amit was Head of Asia Pacific for Uber.

Life is good:

• Competitive salaries and stock options (with a huge upside)
• Working with the very best.. Seriously, not kidding
• Diverse and Inclusive workspace
• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees, spouse and children
• You can choose to come to office empty handed, leave your gadgetry needs on us
• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life
• We celebrate, when we feel like – for small wins, large wins or just to feel good
• Learning and upskilling opportunities
• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home

Why join us?

You have a unique opportunity to be part of an early team that is out to change the world. We work hard, have huge aspirations, are determined, are looking to make our mark in the world and have fun along the way.

We believe in open communication, transparency, a non-hierarchical organization, the best ideas winning, empowering builders to build, open debate of ideas.. And all this, built on a strong foundation of honesty, integrity, respect, diversity and inclusion.

You will be part of the early team, work with the founding team members directly with an open canvas to paint. We hustle, we work hard, and we aim to deliver the best products and experience to our customers. We have a large ambition, are eager to change the world, and are just getting started in our journey. We are looking for rockstars to join our team on this rocket-ship journey

As our very first MLRO, you’ll work independently. Working alongside you would be colleagues across the globe that are experts in their own fields like sales, partnerships, engineering, product etc,. You will work directly with our founder and founders’ office to ensure we clear all the compliance requirements to get started and operate in a smooth and compliant manner in a given region.

What you will do

Policy and content review and creation

• Assist with the creation, maintenance and review of policies, procedures, and controls to identify, prevent, mitigate and manage regulatory risk
• Assist with review of marketing promotions, client communications, and website content
• Update investment and disclosure documentation in line with regulatory, legislative and business changes
• Preparation of board and compliance reports

Regulatory requirement management

• Maintain VARA records and all required VARA registers
• Assist with regulator correspondence and reporting for the VARA
• Set up the appropriate internal processes and policies for for crypto and payments compliance for Zamp e.g. AML, FATF, Travel rule, KYC/KYB, others
• Ensure Zamp compliance with crypto regs & and industry standards on payments and transactions
• Lead conversations with regulators and ensure compliance to all licenses (for payments services and crypto / virtual assets)

Daily compliance activities

• Investigate breaches and incidents and ensure timely resolution and improvement to control environment
• Manage the complaints handling process, in particular, escalated complaints
• Manage relationships with key internal and external parties and promote a positive Compliance culture
• Identify and partner with the appropriate partners and tools needed for compliance – and help get onboarded and initiated

What we’re actively looking for:

• At least 7 years’ relevant experience in a legal or compliance role with a substantial knowledge of relevant rules and regulations and the day-to-day compliance affairs
• VARA/ ADGM Compliance experience
• Experience with securities, OTC derivatives or CFD exposure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills; Good organisational skills
• Exposure and/or knowledge in cryptocurrency trading and exchanges is a plus.

Good to have:

• Relevant professional certifications (RG146 etc.)
• Good understanding of FINTRAC (Canada), other UAE regulations

This role may be a good fit if you:

• Love working in a fast-paced, global organisation maintaining close contact with relevant teams across multiple locations
• Possess excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to provide useful and efficient counsel
• Are able to communicate with team members across functions effectively, your ability to get your point across and make sense of what’s being communicated is going to be of great importance
• Are a self-starter, hustler and curious to learn
• Thrive in ambiguous environments