Vacancy title:
Risk and Compliance Officer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
Yas

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, September 30 2025

Duty Station:
Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Overview Mixx, a fintech company under the AXIAN Group, is hiring for the position of MFS Risk and Compliance Officer in Dar Es Salaam. Join a fast-growing, innovative team shaping the future of financial services across five African countries. Applications are open until September 29, 2025.

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Position: MFS Risk and Compliance Officer Location: Dar Es Salaam Application Deadline: September 29, 2025

Job Requirements

• University degree in finance or another relevant subject.
• Financial services experience.
• Excellent verbal and written skills with high proficiency in English.
• Strong management skills across a range of challenging situations.
• Tenacity, commitment, and personal drive to deliver whatever it takes.
• People management skills, with the ability to influence, cajole, and direct where appropriate, and to judge when to support, intervene, or escalate.
• Relationship management and business partnering skills, with proven experience building, developing, and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders, especially senior management.
• Root cause analysis skills, including understanding an issue or complex problem, identifying key drivers, and working with process owners to define and implement sustainable solutions.
• Conversant in structured query language (SQL).
• Project management and scoping of work plans.

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Core Responsibilities

• Conduct risk assessments for all new MFS products, services, and promotions, ensuring proposed controls are executed in alignment with stakeholders.
• Review MFS control policies, procedures, and processes periodically to maintain effectiveness and alignment with business risk protection.
• Ensure compliance of MFS business activities, including managed service agreements, with GSMA Mobile Money Code of Conduct and regulatory standards.
• Oversee execution of Gawio processes in line with the National Payment System (NPS) Act 2015, related regulations, and internal control procedures.
• Monitor E-Stock management controls, ensure clearance of pending items, and validate/report BOT returns (Ecosystem vs Trust reconciliation and monthly returns).
• Perform due diligence and sanction/PEP screening for all MFS corporate customers and partners, with ongoing weekly reviews.
• Monitor transactions for suspicious activities linked to money laundering, terrorism financing, fraud, or financial losses, and investigate reported cases.
• Manage MFS risk and compliance alerts, ensuring timely review, closure, and periodic updates of alerts configurations and dashboards.
• Verify inactive refund requests, respond to formal transaction information requests from regulators (e.g., Bank of Tanzania), and support audits/inquiries.
• Provide additional risk analysis and reporting as required by senior management, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in risk management activities.

About Mixx Mixx is a fintech company under the AXIAN Group, a pan-African organization operating in five African countries. We are driven by a culture of innovation, agility, and impact. Our young, passionate, and ambitious teams work daily to shape the financial services of tomorrow. At Mixx, we believe diversity is a source of strength. When candidates have equal skills, we encourage female applicants and actively work to create a fair, inclusive, and stimulating professional environment for everyone.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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