AML Ops Lead - Transaction Monitoring
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LemFi is hiring an AML Ops Lead to head its Transaction Monitoring team in Nigeria. You will lead AML analysts, oversee alert triage and investigations, drive process and system improvements, and ensure compliance with OFAC, FCA and FINTRAC frameworks while supporting the company's fintech growth. The role requires 4-6 years of AML or compliance operations experience and proven team leadership in a high-volume environment.
- Lead, coach and develop a team of AML analysts handling high-volume transaction monitoring alerts.
- Own alert triage, investigations, quality assurance and escalation of complex or high-risk cases.
- Drive process, tooling and system improvements with data-backed proposals.
- Requires 4-6 years AML/compliance operations experience and prior team leadership.
- Remote role based in Nigeria with exposure to global regulatory frameworks.
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Original source description
If you have led a financial crime investigations team in a high-volume environment and you want the scope to genuinely change how the team operates, this role is for you.
Reporting to the Function Manager/Head, you will operate at the heart of day-to-day compliance decision-making, balancing regulatory compliance frameworks with a seamless user
Experience
to support sustainable, high-growth fintech scaling.
As an AML Ops Lead - Transaction Monitoring within the Compliance Operations team, you will play a critical role in protecting LemFi and its customers from financial crime while enabling safe and seamless access to our products.
What you'll build and own
Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with compliance on complex or high-risk cases and represent the team's findings clearly when escalating to senior stakeholders.
Staying Current: Keep up to date with evolving AML typologies and regulatory expectations (e.g., OFAC, FCA, FINTRAC) relevant to LemFi's markets, and help bring that awareness into the team's day-to-day investigations.
Team Leadership & People Management: Lead, coach, and develop a team of AML analysts by providing regular feedback, tailored coaching, and early performance support. Foster a collaborative culture where knowledge is shared, issues are escalated early, and continuous learning is encouraged.
System Optimization: Proactively identify issues and inefficiencies in processes and drive solutions through a mix of partnerships, technology, process, and procedure changes, including working closely with compliance and engineering. You're expected to bring data and specific proposals to these conversations, not just flag the problem.
Issue Escalation: Flag control weaknesses, high-risk cases, or tooling/process issues to leadership promptly and clearly, following agreed protocols. The goal is for leadership to hear about problems from you first, not after the fact.
Quality Assurance & Performance: Perform independent quality reviews of completed TM investigation decisions before closure or escalation. Track team and individual performance against SLA, quality, and false-positive metrics, and use what you find to guide coaching, not just reporting. Run regular 1:1s with clear, actionable takeaways, and address underperformance early with specific, documented goals.
Performance & Metrics: Track and report on key team metrics, including SLA adherence, QA pass rates, and false-positive trends, using these insights to guide coaching and process improvements.
Alert Triage & Investigations: Oversee the review of systematic alerts triggered by suspicious activity, ensuring every investigation is thorough, well-reasoned, and clearly documented from first review through to closure or escalation. Your team's case narratives should hold up to scrutiny, whether that's an internal audit or a regulator's request.
Your
Proven track record leading or supervising a team of analysts, with clear examples of coaching people through performance challenges, not just managing output.
4-6 years of total AML or Compliance operations
Strong written communication skills for internal escalations, audit responses and regulatory documentation.
identifying and fixing operational inefficiencies, whether through better workflows, smarter tooling or changed team habits.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders confidently, including in difficult conversations
Working knowledge of OFAC, FCA and FINTRAC regulations and the ability to make defensible, risk-based decisions under each framework.
Adaptability to global operational needs and ability to work in a rapidly changing business and regulatory environment.
Hands-on
in AML transaction monitoring or financial crime investigations in a remittance, payments or remittance-adjacent environment, with direct exposure to high-volume alert queues.
Nice to have:
Familiarity with AI-assisted transaction monitoring tools or case management platforms.
A relevant professional qualification such as CAMS, ICA Diploma or equivalent.
across multiple product types (remittance, credit, savings or multi-currency accounts) within the same compliance function.
How to Apply
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