Job vacancy:
AML/CFT Auditor
Team Supervision
- Assign tasks to team members, monitor daily progress, and provide on-the-spot guidance where required.
- Review staff outputs, ensuring quality and consistency across working papers and reports.
- Conduct daily/weekly operational meetings with audit staff to track progress and address blockers.
- Oversee performance, identify skill gaps and organize targeted training or mentoring to strengthen delivery capacity.
Training & Capacity Building
- Lead internal training sessions to build technical audit and compliance expertise within the team.
- Deliver external client training programs on AML/CFT obligations, audit findings, and best practices, as and when required.
- Evaluate training effectiveness and update programs in line with regulatory changes and evolving AML/CFT risks.
- Mentor and develop audit staff through ongoing supervision and knowledge-sharing.
- Maintain an internal knowledge base of evolving typologies, regulatory circulars, and industry best practices.
- Brief senior management and staff regularly on emerging risks and compliance expectations.
Additional Duties
- Undertake other cognate duties assigned by senior management, particularly where operational coordination is required.
- Attending client meetings as and when required.
- Reporting during Board meetings and at frequent dashboards of the Company.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Law/ Finance/ management or other related qualifications.
- Minimum 7 years of experience as an auditor.
- Prior experience in an audit firm would be an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of industry processes and regulations.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities.
- An analytical mindset with excellent organizational skills.
Main Duties:
Operational Oversight
- Direct and oversee day-to-day audit operations, ensuring all client assignments are progressing according to agreed timelines, budgets, and scope.
- Maintain a centralised assignment tracker covering status, deliverables, deadlines and responsible staff, with escalation protocols for delays.
- Supervise scheduling and resource allocation to ensure optimal use of team capacity.
- Oversee offsite operations at client premises, ensuring logistics, documentation, and reporting are properly managed.
- Ensure audit outputs (working papers, reports) are reviewed and approved before release to clients.
- Follow up with clients on pending documents, clarifications, or approvals required to complete engagements.
- Ensure continuity of audit operations especially for time-sensitive assignments.
- Regularly assess the efficiency of control systems, flag operational risks to senior management and recommend effective improvements.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures as may be required for the provision of the services provided by the Company.
- Act as the primary operational point of contact for client boards, MLROs and compliance teams during audit execution.
- Manage follow-ups on remediation actions post-audit, ensuring clients address deficiencies identified.
- Oversee timely and accurate preparation of reports for regulators, ensuring delivery of required documentation.
Strategic Development & Business Growth
- Identify opportunities for new service lines (e.g., thematic reviews, regulatory gap analyses, outsourced MLRO).
- Evaluate the operational feasibility of new ventures and ensure adequate capacity before execution.
Quality Assurance & Control Systems
- Design, implement and enforce daily monitoring controls to ensure assignments meet internal quality benchmarks.
- Conduct ongoing review of audit testing procedures, ensuring they remain consistent with methodology and regulatory expectations.
- Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or recurring issues in operations and initiate corrective measures.
- Report daily/weekly progress and operational KPIs to senior management.
Financial Oversight
- Monitor invoicing, collections, and engagement profitability to ensure assignments are financially sustainable;
- Authorise and track expenditure related to assignments (e.g., travel for offsite audits, software licences, external consultants);
- Provide regular financial oversight reports to senior management, highlighting delays in collections or unprofitable engagements.
Kindly express your interest by sending your CV on: recruitment@juristax.com
Deadline for application: 23 January 2026
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