Risk & Compliance Officer at Mixx By Yas

Mixx is hiring MFS Risk and Compliance Officer

• University degree in Finance or another relevant subject.
• Financial services experience.
• Location: Dar Es Salaam.

Core Responsibilities

• Conduct risk assessments for all new MFS products, services, and promotions, and ensuring proposed controls are executed in alignment with stakeholders.
• Review MFS control policies, procedures, and processes periodically to maintain effectiveness and alignment with business risk protection.
• Monitor compliance with MFS business activities, including managing trust agreements with CRDB, M-Pesa/MoneyCode, and other licensing standards.
• Ensure end of day reconciliation for each trust with the banks, M-Pesa/MoneyCode, MFS systems, registries, and internal company databases.
• Monitor E-Stock management controls, ensure clearance of pending items, and validate report BOT returns (Ecosystem vs Trust rec. and monthly returns).
• Perform due diligence and sanction/PEP screening for all MFS corporate customers and partners, with ongoing weekly reviews.
• Maintain a strong feel for fraud and being the first point of contact for any potential fraud or abuse.
• Manage MFS risk and compliance data, ensuring timely review, closure, and periodic updates of alerts, configurations, and dashboards.
• Verify inactive fraud requests, respond to formal transaction information requests from regulators (e.g., Bank of Tanzania), and support audits/inquiries.
• Provide fraud risk analysis and reporting as required by senior management, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in risk management activities.

Core Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written skills—high proficiency in English necessary.
• Strong management skills across a range of challenging situations.
• Tenacity, commitment, and personal drive to deliver whatever it takes.
• Strong judgment—the ability to influence, cajole, or direct where appropriate. Ability to judge when to support, when to intervene and when to vocalize.
• Relationship management and business partnering skills proven experience of building, developing, and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders, especially senior management.
• Ability to solve problems by identifying an issue or complex problem, the key drivers behind it, then working with the process owners to define an action plan and supporting the implementation of a sustainable solution.
• Conversant in structured query language (SQL).
• Project management and scoping of work plans.

At Mixx, we believe that diversity is a source of strength. When candidates have equal skills, we encourage female applicants and actively work to create a fair, inclusive and stimulating professional environment for everyone.

Joining Mixx by Yas means becoming part of a fintech company belonging to the AXIAN Group, a pan-African player operating in five African countries. You will be working in a fast-growing fintech company driven by a culture of innovation, agility and impact. Our young, passionate and ambitious teams are shaping the financial services of tomorrow every day.

If this description corresponds to you, grow with us by applying before September 29 2025.