Sobre esta vaga de Europe MLRO na NALA

NALA · Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

👋 About Us

NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.

We operate two core products:

NALA, our consumer app making cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia.
Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments.

Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.

At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.

Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion.

🙌 Your Mission

Build and lead a best-in-class AML/CFT compliance framework for Belgium, ensuring regulatory excellence while enabling safe, scalable growth in international remittances.

🎯 Your Responsibilities in this Role

Own and evolve NALA’s AML/CFT framework in Belgium, ensuring full compliance with local law, EU directives, and NBB expectations
Lead end-to-end suspicious activity investigations and act as the nominated officer for CTIF-CFI reporting
Deliver and maintain the Overall Risk Assessment (ORA), covering customer, product, and corridor-level financial crime risks
Act as the primary point of contact for regulators and law enforcement, managing audits, inspections, and ongoing relationships
Design and monitor internal controls and KPIs/KRIs to ensure ongoing effectiveness of the compliance program
Provide strategic advisory to leadership on new products, market expansion, and risk appetite decisions

🔥 Must-have requirements

Experience operating as MLRO or equivalent senior compliance role in a regulated environment
7+ years of AML/CFT experience within a Payment Institution or Electronic Money Institution
Deep knowledge of Belgian AML regulations, NBB expectations, and EU AML directives
Proven track record managing SAR/STR reporting and regulatory interactions
Strong experience conducting complex financial crime investigations (e.g. layering, smurfing, cross-border schemes)
Professional fluency in English and either French or Dutch
Meets “Fit and Proper” requirements for senior compliance roles with the NBB

💪 Nice to have requirements

Previous experience in a high-growth fintech or remittance business
Experience working with transaction monitoring systems and regtech tools
LLM or legal/compliance academic background

✅ Success in the role looks like

3-Month Metrics

Fully onboarded as the nominated AML officer with regulators and established key regulatory relationships
Completed review of existing AML/CFT framework with clear action plan for gaps and improvements

6-Month Metrics

Delivered an updated ORA and implemented enhancements to controls, monitoring, and reporting
Established scalable, data-driven compliance processes supporting growth without increased regulatory risk

⭐️ Benefits

35 Days Off including your local bank holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
Enhanced Parental Leave: We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.

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Sobre a NALA

We’re on a mission to increase economic opportunities for Africans across the globe, and we’re keen to hear from capable, ambitious, and creative people who want to help bring this vision to fruition. 🚀

Our first product was a mobile money service in East Africa, which gained over 2,000 customers. Now we’ve set our sights on building a bank for the African diaspora across the globe and our initial focus is on remittances. We’re currently launching an international money transfer service for African living overseas, who send money home to their loved ones.

We’re backed by: Balderton Capital, Y- Combinator, Accel Partners, and several incredible fintech angel investors including the founders of Monzo, Comply Advantage, Luno, and Simple.

Find us on TechCrunch

What we are currently building 🚀

We want to build a bank for the African diaspora globally, initially by starting with a cross-border money transfer service. We believe this is critical to solve to channel economic value back to the African continent. We believe using remittances is one of the best forms of true economic development and we would like to use it as an entry point before building new layers of financial services for the African diaspora.

At a starting point we are excited about:

Building Remittances 2.0 - we know remittance fees are a race to the bottom and believe the current model has some things that need to be changed.
Enabling credit - for senders sending money back to Africa so they don’t have to wait till they get their paycheck at the end of the month.
Building infrastructure - enabling payments infrastructure locally in Africa.
Building a community of African diaspora helping us build an incredible product together.