Recruitment at Paystack

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack’s mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Protection Senior Associate

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• Our team is looking for a driven, forward-thinking and innovative operations officer with a passion for data, technology, and privacy.
• In this role, you’ll be an integral part of the team ensuring that Paystack’s products and business operations adhere to legal, ethical, and best practice standards in data protection and privacy.
• This dynamic role will focus on developing and driving processes for our Global Privacy Compliance Program, with a particular focus on Europe and Africa.
• The role will report to the Data Protection and Privacy Lead. The candidate should be based in Nigeria with the ability to travel when required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as part of a small team of data privacy experts maturing Paystack’s global privacy framework
• Assist the DPO and project/product owners in carrying out Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)
• Analyse existing and new legislative and regulatory developments to ensure that Paystack understands and remains compliant with evolving requirements across jurisdictions
• Work closely with other members of Paystack’s data, security, marketing, sales and product teams to help develop policies and procedures, and drive compliance with them, logging instances of non compliance with the DPO
• With the DPO and Security GRC, prepare documents for Paystack to present externally before regulators, industry groups and other key stakeholders during audits or licence applications (i.e. NDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, CBN, data protection regulators etc.). This includes drafting document approval lists, updating date of approval on policy documents, applying correct nomenclature and classification labels to Management System documents.
• Actively engage data protection champions to assist with duties such as ROPA updates, sub-processor engagement, privacy due diligence screening, and other compliance requirements
• Work with the legal team in managing Data Processing Agreements (DPA) and ensuring data sharing and transfer with third parties is governed by the relevant agreement
• Update the DPP compliance calendar based on requirements from applicable data protection legislation and others as we expand to new jurisdictions
• Serve as the Data Privacy Risk Champion
• Provide strategic input to the cross-functional data protection and security GRC team
• Assist in driving Third Party Security and Privacy Risk Management initiatives across Paystack. This includes identifying potential third-party risks and ensuring these risks are mitigated
• Maintain the Privacy Risk Register by monitoring risk assessments and risk treatment progress; analysing, identifying, describing, and quantifying privacy risks that impact all business risks
• Help foster a security and privacy-centric culture across Paystack, by drafting quarterly awareness content to share company wide
• Regularly review existing DPP processes and suggest opportunities for improvement and/or further maturity (i.e. DSR procedure).

Qualifications
You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• 3+ years’ experience working on data protection and privacy issues, with particular depth on US, European, and African data privacy regulations and the regimes governing transfer of data between various jurisdictions
• Experience with the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as other global privacy laws, regulations, best practice, and industry guidelines
• Experience and/or knowledge in solving data protection and privacy issues
• Strong organization and project management skills with the ability to work well on both long and short-term projects under pressure
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills who works well in a collaborative team environment
• Demonstrated ability to work in a diverse environment adhering to the highest ethical standards
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and remain adaptable
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Professionalism.

Other Nice To Haves:

• Preferably worked in a financial/technology company or in a consulting firm as product or privacy expert
• Solid understanding of managing third-party relationships, the regulatory environment, risk management frameworks and industry best practices.
• Strong working knowledge of supplier SLAs, KPIs, and risk management techniques.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• MacBook Pro
• Health Insurance
• Hybrid Working
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Payroll Specialist

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• This is an exciting time to join Paystack and make a personal difference in the African employment space as a Payroll Specialist, joining our African Operations team.
• In your role, you will be owning the employee payroll cycle and employment statutory compliance in multiple countries that we operate in and ensuring compliance with all the statutory requirements in Africa and Europe.
• You will be reporting to the Finance Operations Lead and will be working from Nigeria.

Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with Payroll service providers in the preparation of payroll and statutory filing requirements.
• Maintain and update employee payroll records, including tax and benefit deductions.
• Prepare and file payroll-related tax reports in accordance with local laws and regulations.
• Conduct regular audits of payroll systems to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Manages existing relationships with payroll, accounting and benefits service providers.
• Reconciliation of PAYE, Pension and other statutory remittances with respective Payroll providers
• Responsible for ensuring full data integrity and confidentiality.
• Manage and resolve any payroll-related issues or disputes.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and policies related to payroll and employee benefits.
• Communicate effectively with employees and management regarding payroll issues, benefits, and policies.
• Stay up-to-date on changes to local payroll laws and regulations and ensure compliance.

What it takes to succeed in this role

• 5+ years of payroll management
• Strong Knowledge of payroll best practices.
• Strong knowledge of local payroll laws and regulations in Africa and Europe.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to use payroll software with accuracy and efficiency
• Proficient in using software tools like Microsoft Office or Google Suites.
• An analytical mindset with great problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.
• Be open to acquiring new knowledge, be analytical and interested in Payroll
• Solid understanding of accounting, financial reporting & Tax fundamentals and payroll best practices
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

While this is NOT strictly required, it would be a plus if you:

• Have previous experience in a big four, top-tier consulting firm, fintech or financial institution.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working environment
• Full medical coverage
• Pension contributions
• Gym membership
• Macbook pro
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: This role is full-time and remote-friendly within +/- 3hrs of West African Standard Time.

Job Title: Senior Sales Executive

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• As a Senior Sales Executive, you are an individual contributor tasked with executing on our go-to-market strategy in a field sales capacity.
• You’ll execute outbound sales campaigns across target sectors in an assigned territory with the goal of delivering on an annual quota.
• You’ll be accountable for building and managing a pipeline of business by running a full sales cycle across multinational enterprises, growth and early stage startups, local corporates and high growth SMEs.
• You’ll be required to establish relationships with Champions of Paystack within each prospect account, and serve as the directly responsible individual for sales engagements with Paystack. In summary, you will identify new business opportunities and work to close these to increase Paystack’s market share and adoption within your territory.
• In terms of profile: You are an adept salesperson seeking to build a long-term career in sales. You are capable of engaging in business conversations with C-level executives, and also comfortable having high-level technical conversations with relevant stakeholders. You have an understanding of the buyer journey and can lead relatively long, multi stakeholder deals in a highly consultative manner.
• You understand how to communicate value to differentiate competing product offerings and enjoy working on products that require deep product knowledge, combined with technical knowledge.
• We’ve pioneered a new era of simple, powerful, financial technology tools for businesses in Africa. And as we prepare for a period of accelerated growth, we are looking to you to help generate and convert a healthy pipeline of some of the best businesses on the continent.
• And you’ll do all this while working closely with a tight-knit team of creative problem solvers who’ll value you, give you the opportunity to meet high expectations, and who’ll actively create a supportive, nurturing space within which to accelerate your career.
• This full-time role is based in Country and reporting directly to the Head of Sales.

Responsibilities
As a Sales Executive, you’ll:

• Draft and execute a Territory and Pipeline reconciliation plan, which captures your strategy for executing a demand-generation campaign to identify, engage and close new business for Paystack within target sectors
• Manage the sales cycle from pipeline generation to close, for multinational enterprises, growth and early-stage startups, local corporates and SMEs, to deliver on an annual revenue quota (target)
• Receive qualified inbound opportunities and take ownership of these, qualifying and closing them
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and operational teams both within and outside Paystack
• Report pipeline and sales activity data in a CRM to provide visibility into your book of business and guidance on your forecast
• Support product development and cross functional initiatives as needed to enhance Paystack’s offering and value proposition.

Qualifications

• 7 – 10 years experience in Sales or Business Development in Payments or technology, with Quota responsibility, and a track record of top performance in meeting set objectives
• Able to understand complex technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple products
• Ability to build a book of business within an assigned territory, and consistently deliver on quarterly and annual targets from outbound sales efforts
• Strong ability to drive sales engagements in a fast-changing environment, sustaining focused conversations to achieve a clear objective.
• Able to build trust and credibility by providing accurate information and guidance to prospects regarding Paystack’s products and solution capabilities
• Strong presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills encompassing verbal, written and presentation skills
• Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
• Strong interest in technology

While this is not strictly required, it would be a plus if you:

• have previous experience in the banking, payments, or the payment cards industry.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• MacBook Pro
• Health Insurance
• Hybrid Working
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Compliance Lead

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• We are looking for a forward thinking and innovative Compliance Lead to work with other members of the compliance team to build and manage our Regulatory and in-house compliance program, including AML/KYC/CFT, ABC and FC compliance program and operations with the primary aim of mitigating regulatory and compliance risk.
• You will be working with Paystack’s Head of Compliance and Risk in the management of Paystack’s compliance functions and creating strategies and policies to make sure Paystack is compliant with regulations across the different jurisdictions of operations and board approved polices.
• Your goal will be to ensure we operate in a legal and ethical manner while meeting our business objectives.

What you’ll do

• Develop and implement an effective regulatory compliance program.
• Create sound internal controls and processes and monitor adherence to them.
• Proactively audit processes, practices and documents to identify weaknesses and revise procedures, reports etc. periodically to identify hidden compliance risks or non-conformity issues
• Evaluate business activities to assess compliance risk and recommend changes to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and internal rules.
• Developing, overseeing and understanding control systems to prevent or deal with violations of regulatory regimes in multiple African jurisdictions.
• Master a deep understanding of the rules and regulations governing each market in which we operate, including monitoring any changes and developments
• Design and implement relevant compliance processes including know your customer (KYC), anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions and combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) across multiple jurisdictions.
• Design, execute, and manage enterprise-wide and product-specific AML/CTF policy, procedures, risk assessments, and country risk ratings across jurisdiction of operation.
• Develop an effective and fully functional compliance operations team, including but not limited to KYC operations, quality assurance, STR monitoring and reporting
• Oversee the gathering of internal information to meet external regulatory reporting obligations
• Coordination of regulatory exams in different jurisdictions.
• Ensure the fulfillment of all record keeping requirements
• Investigate irregularities and non-compliance issues
• Act as a point-of-contact for all employees on issues relating to money laundering, terrorist financing and receive reports on non-compliance with laws or company policies
• Serve as the compliance officer in Nigeria and a key stakeholder of the Risk & Compliance team in the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing,.
• Work closely with other compliance officers or serve as a compliance officer in relevant jurisdictions.
• Oversee the development and manage the AML CFT/ financial crimes compliance function.
• Thoroughly embed the compliance culture across Paystack including regular trainings on compliance matters such as: AML/CFT, Sanctions, ABC and rendering training reports to the relevant regulatory authorities and the board.
• Monitor AML/CFT and fraud trends, intelligence, typologies, and regulatory developments; and make recommendations to innovative, implement or improve transaction controls and/or monitoring programs accordingly.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders in the Legal, Regulator, Risk and Compliance teams as where required with the Paystack’s growth to articulate concerns around compliance and AML/CTF issues and processes.
• Centralise interaction and communication with country Financial Intelligence Units.
• Design and manage the Global Anti-Money Laundering Questionnaires and Supplement Guides.
• Design and oversee the Global Financial crime operations.
• Review all CDD (Customer Due Diligence) reports or escalations provided by the KYC operations or quality assurance and check for completeness and probe for further information or follow up action as is required.
• Coordinate the collection of management information and statistics.
• Responsible for the coordination of compliance reports across the different jurisdictions.
• Support the Head of Risk & Compliance in reporting to relevant board risk Committees and preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reports to Paystack’s Senior Management and regulatory bodies, where applicable.

What it takes to succeed at this role

• 7+ years in a compliance and risk role in a pan-African financial institution.
• Experience in payments/financial services
• Excellent sense of judgment – able to help steer the company to balance innovation and growth with regulatory compliance
• Critical problem-solving skills
• Ability to thrive, adapt and embrace change in rapidly changing regulatory environments
• In-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements and guidelines in Nigeria
• In-depth Knowledge of regulatory requirements and controls in Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation Financing (AML, CFT, CPF), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) etc.
• Familiar with AML/CFT monitoring systems and related investigation processes and able to recommend technology solutions that would facilitate a seamless process implementation.

The person we want to hire for this role will also be:

• A team player who is willing to pitch in where needed in a fast-paced, growing company.
• Decisive, and capable of making smart decisions in the face of ambiguity and imperfect information.
• An exceptionally hard/smart worker, capable of getting things done.
• Required to travel frequently to countries where Paystack is active.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Technology, Economics, Finance, Business or similar;
• The ability to speak an additional language such as French or Arabic is an added advantage.

Nice to have’s:

• Master’s Degree in either Economics / Business / Law (preferred)
• Relevant course, done through ICA (International Compliance Association)
• Pan African Experience
• ACAMS certification.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online