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Zepz

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2021

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

💰 $165M Debt Financing - Zepz on 2025-03

Fintech • B2C

Zepz is a fintech company that operates digital remittance brands (notably WorldRemit and Sendwave) offering fast, secure, mobile-first cross-border money transfer services for consumers. The company emphasizes fair, fast and flexible payments, a world-class customer experience, and global reach — enabling app-based transfers to over 130 countries, with reported volumes of about $10 billion transferred and 50 million customer transactions in 2020 across more than 5,000 corridors. Zepz positions itself as customer-focused and growth-oriented, with hundreds of employees and multiple international offices supporting consumer remittances primarily to regions such as Africa and Asia.

📋 Description

• Act as Country AML and Compliance Officer for the two Zepz Canada entities (covering the WorldRemit and Sendwave brands). • Manage the local Compliance team and be responsible for quality and timeliness of their output, notably SAR and EFT fillings. • Act as chief interface between the company and regulatory bodies. • Implement financial crime and regulatory compliance programmes that enable the safe and sustainable growth of Zepz in Canada. • Implement and manage the AML and CTF programmes, anti-bribery & corruption rules, record management, exams and audits, licence registrations and oversee reporting for suspicious activity. • Conduct risk assessments, oversee training and resolve issues identified in Exams and Audits. • Producing periodic management reports for the Canadian Management Team, they will also be accountable and report into group Compliance management on the status of Canadian Compliance. • Ensure compliance with country/jurisdictional laws, regulations and company policy and procedure. • Embody a Compliance-aware culture throughout Zepz which is capable of identifying, managing and quantifying exposures. • Be responsible for regulatory reporting. • Represent Canada Compliance in group-wide governance fora. • Act as a member of the global Compliance leadership team, working with colleagues across the world to optimise the Compliance operating model. • Contribute to the company’s global policies that are Compliance-owned and, in turn, draft and own policy addenda that are owned by Canada Compliance. • Be responsible for ‘horizon scanning’ for any and all new and amended regulations that may affect Zepz’s operations across Canada, including assessment of whether our existing controls need to change in response. • Create and manage budgets for the local team. • Manage the compliance, AML, and CTF due diligence of new partners. • Involved in local partnership opportunities, vendors and banking partners if any, from a compliance perspective.

🎯 Requirements

• Established Country AML and Compliance Officer, who has previously overseen AML, sanctions and compliance framework and responsible for external reporting to the relevant authorities. • Previous experience of working in the fintech Payments sector is preferred, although candidates with broader Financial Services backgrounds will also be considered. • Regulatory Expertise: Steeped in CDD, EDD, partner/third party due diligence, and suspicious activity detection/investigation, and reporting. Understand compliance frameworks for risk management and internal controls. Following all Regulatory requirements under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA), including the Retail Payments Activities Act -RPAA and The Revenue Quebec Act regulations and directives as applicable. • Will know how to implement best regulatory practices and resolve outstanding issues. Able to socialise best practice with the broader global compliance team. • Ability to work within ambiguity and fast-paced environment. • Engaged in the day-to-day details of the role, whilst never losing strategic oversight of the control framework and having the gravitas to face off to very senior stakeholders internally. • A strong people manager, they will be a ‘multiplier’ of the talent and around them, and attract and retain high performing team members, setting a tone of positivity, accountability, and competence within the team. • Operational and Strategic Mentality - Not only develops sound and effective day to day controls but continually monitors and oversees operations to assure alignment with the business. Realises that cultivating our people is one of our best strategic choices. Can manage the tasks of the day while scanning the horizon for future threats/changes.

🏖️ Benefits

• unlimited annual leave • great healthcare benefits • employee discounts