Junior Transaction Monitoring Associate

About the role

Duplo, a Lagos‑based fintech startup, is looking for a Junior Transaction Monitoring Associate to help safeguard its platform against financial crime. You will work closely with the compliance team to review alerts, investigate suspicious activity, and ensure adherence to AML, CTF and KYC regulations.

Key responsibilities

• Review and analyse transactional alerts for patterns such as structuring or layering.
• Escalate high‑risk cases and file SARs/STRs as required.
• Identify unusual behaviour, flag suspicious transactions and place liens on confirmed inflows.
• Contact customers to verify transaction authenticity using internal tools.
• Report suspicious outflows to beneficiary institutions and cooperate with external regulators, financial institutions and law‑enforcement agencies.
• Stay current with AML laws, financial‑crime regulations and industry standards.
• Assist in developing and reviewing internal AML policies and training materials.
• Assess risks associated with flagged transactions and communicate findings to senior management.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in law, finance or business (preferred).
• Minimum 2 years experience in compliance or financial‑crime roles, preferably in fintech or banking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem‑solving ability and capacity to work in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments.
• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills.