anelechi
Compliance Officer/Mlro
I am a Compliance and Financial Crime Reporting professional with over 8 years of progressive experience spanning transaction monitoring, AML/CFT programme management, KYC oversight, regulatory reporting, and law enforcement liaison across banking and fintech. Certified Designate Compliance Professional (DCP) currently functioning at MLRO level at a leading licensed fintech, I currently lead a team of Transaction Monitoring and KYC Analysts. I have deep operational fluency in AML/CFT/CPF frameworks, and reporting. I am Seeking to step formally into an MLRO, head Compliance, Senior AML, or Senior Fraud role where regulatory judgement, investigative rigour, and cross functional leadership can be applied at scale.
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $96,000
Hourly rate: $50
Nationality: 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Residency: 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Experience
compliance officer
Fidelity Bank Plc 2018 - 2005
Compliance – Internal Risk Profiling | Fidelity Bank Plc 2023 – 2025 • Led the review and enhancement of the bank's financial crime risk framework, expanding coverage across regulatory breach, insider dealing, market manipulation, data breach, sanctions/asset freeze, legal, and ESG risk dimensions. • Coordinated annual enterprise-wide risk assessments across financial crime, sanctions, and ESG risk, producing outputs that informed Board-level risk appetite. • Conducted Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) investigations on complex, layered corporate structures and nominee arrangements. • Revamped due diligence questionnaires for correspondent bank, IMTO, and fintech relationships to align with Wolfsberg Group standards, improving the defensibility of the correspondent banking programme. Compliance – Transaction Monitoring & Profiling | Fidelity Bank Plc 2020 – 2023 • Held direct escalation authority for financial crime risk arising from customer, product, and counterparty transactions, monitored via goAML and related AML tooling. • Conducted KYC remediation and risk-based due diligence reviews, invisible trade reviews for TBML indicators, and annual correspondent/respondent bank due diligence. • Prepared investigation and analysis reports underpinning STR filing and management escalation. Compliance – Law Enforcement Agency Desk | Fidelity Bank Plc 2018 – 2020 • Served as primary interface between the bank and law enforcement (Nigeria Police Force, EFCC), managing account-information requests with strict confidentiality and legal compliance. • Reported to the NFIU on BVN and customer name amendments in line with disclosure obligations, and maintained unit SOPs against evolving regulatory guidance.
Skills
compliance
kyc
sanctions
legal
english