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SAFARICOM

Automotive

Sanctions & Compliance Analyst

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Description

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Business or related field
  • Professional certifications such as: CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), CGSS (Certified Global Sanctions Specialist), ICA Certificate/Diploma in AML or Financial Crime Compliance or CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner)
  • At least 2 years experience in Financial Crime Compliance, AML, or Sanctions Compliance
  • Good knowledge of global sanctions regimes and regulatory requirements (OFAC, UN, EU, local regulators)
  • Experience working within a regulated financial institution.
  • Experience participating in sanctions model validation, tuning, or screening optimization initiatives.


Responsibilities

Sanctions Screening & Alert Management

  • Review and investigate sanctions screening alerts generated from customer onboarding, payments, partner onboarding, and customer databases.
  • Perform name screening against applicable sanctions, watchlists, politically exposed persons (PEP), and adverse media databases.
  • Differentiate true matches from false positives and document rationale for decisions.
  • Escalate confirmed or potential sanctions matches in line with internal procedures.

Investigations & Risk Assessment

  • Conduct comprehensive investigations on customers, transactions, and counterparties.
  • Assess sanctions, AML, CFT, and reputational risks associated with alerts and cases.
  • Gather and analyze customer information, transactional activity, and supporting documentation.
  • Recommend appropriate risk mitigation measures and control actions.

Regulatory Compliance & Governance

  • Ensure compliance with local and international sanctions regulations (UN, OFAC, EU, UK HMT, and other applicable regimes).
  • Support the implementation and monitoring of sanctions compliance policies and procedures.
  • Maintain awareness of regulatory changes and sanctions developments.
  • Ensure all investigations and decisions meet regulatory and audit standards.

Case Management & Documentation

  • Maintain accurate and complete records of investigations, reviews, and decisions.
  • Prepare detailed case summaries, management reports, and escalation memos.
  • Ensure timely closure of alerts and cases within established service level agreements (SLAs).
  • Support regulatory examinations, audits, and compliance reviews through high-quality documentation.

Training & Continuous Improvement

  • Promote awareness of sanctions compliance obligations across the organization.
  • Support training initiatives for staff on sanctions, screening, and financial crime risks.
  • Contribute to process enhancement projects and automation initiatives.
  • Share lessons learned and emerging typologies to strengthen the compliance framework.

Monitoring, Controls & Testing

  • Participate in the testing and validation of sanctions screening systems and controls.
  • Identify control weaknesses, process gaps, and areas for improvement.
  • Support periodic reviews of screening rules, parameters, and risk-based controls.
  • Contribute to quality assurance activities and compliance monitoring programs..

Sanctions List & Blacklist Management

  • Maintain and update sanctions lists from global and local regulators
  • Manage customer, partner and internal blacklist databases
  • Ensure timely updates and synchronization of screening systems

Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory

  • Provide sanctions and compliance guidance to business units and operational teams within Agile squads.
  • Respond to sanctions-related queries and targeted financial sanctions notices from the Financial Reporting Centres
  • Support the implementation of compliance initiatives and remediation actions.

Health and Safety

  • Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
  • All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions


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