Kyc / Pdd Compliance Officer

**About Thunes**

Thunes is a global, fast-growing, and innovative Fintech scale-up that uses technology to disrupt and transform the existing financial system.

We have a strong Mission: to create a better global payments network, and a great Purpose: to connect the world to economic opportunities and address systemic inequality when it comes to financial services.

We are proud to power payments for the world's fastest-growing businesses and work with some of the amazing global brands - from Gig Economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia's super-app Grab, to global Fintech leaders such as PayPal and Remitly.

Our Products help to drastically simplify the Payment integration experience for our customers: with a single, simple connection, businesses and consumers can send payments to - and get paid in - every corner of the world. Instantly.

Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in Barcelona, London, Paris, Shanghai, New York, Dubai, and Nairobi.

**Thunes Collections**

The Thunes collections (formerly Limonetik) platform supports over 265 local payment methods in 60 different countries, reduces complexity of settlement by aggregating multiple financial flows into one settlement and supports these services with comprehensive reconciliation and reporting tools all via one state-of-the-art API.

**Context of the role**

Based in France (Paris) and reporting directly to the Compliance Director of Thunes Collections, this role will help reinforce the Compliance function for Thunes Collections, the acquiring business of Thunes Group in the European Economic Area (EEA) region relying on a French payment institution license. This role will also partner with the Compliance function of the French payout business, as well as with Legal, Sales/Business Development and Product teams in London, Singapore, US and the rest of the world.

The position provides an exciting opportunity to work on an international stage, alongside household names, and join a rapidly growing FinTech company making a real impact on the lives of people in developed and emerging markets alike.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Supervise the client & partner onboarding activity within Thunes Collections
- Guarantee compliance with SLAs
- Ensure timely escalation and own proposed course of actions to line management to address identified risks and blocking points during such processes.
- Provide exigent AML-related support to Thunes Collections Compliance team
- Monitor problematic situations during the onboarding process
- Manage and provide training to the first lines as well as to internal KYC/PDD officers
- Conduct initial and ongoing Know Your Customer/Partner Due Diligence analysis, including the following:

- Conduct research on legal entities in the Company's systems (WorldCheck, Bureau Van Dijk, Graydon etc.) as well as in official government records and other public websites
- Conduct basic corporate research on legal entities using closed databases public websites (sector/industry type, products, services sold, localization of main suppliers, main clients and operation locations)
- Evaluate client risk according to predefined risk criteria
- Communicate with clients, as needed, to gather and understand information on beneficial ownership or on any other missing documents
- Manage sanctions, PEPs, and negative news screening process
- Conduct Enhanced Due Diligence on clients, including the following:

- Ensuring that the partners' transactions are in line with expected behavior
- Conduct interviews with the partners' compliance departments to assess that the partners AML-CTF framework is in line with Thunes expectations.
- Identify situations where a client's information or documents appear fraudulent or suspicious.
- Implement new compliance policies and procedures related to the onboarding of clients and partners
- Centralize and coordinate remediation of audit findings
- Create and analyze reports of compliance management information
- Support and participate at the creation and deployment of the permanent control plan of the entity (including risk assessment & internal control)
- Being an actor in the establishment of a risk & compliance culture within the business line

**Skills/Qualifications**
- At least 5 years professional experience within the payments industry.
- Expertise in compliance areas within a financially regulated company, including experience conducting Corporate KYC in the financial sector
- Experience working in an international and diverse environment, as well as managing/supervising teams
- Understand the principles and be familiar with Payment products
- Good understanding of corporate organizational structures, and local regulatory environment (laws, guidelines,)
- Ability to work well under pressure, different priorities, and tight deadlines
- University Degree in Law, Business or similar
- Capacity to work in project mode and with collaborative approach
- Clear written and ve