👋 About UsNALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.We operate two core products:NALA, our consumer app making cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia.Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments.Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion.🙌 Your MissionBuild and lead a best-in-class AML/CFT compliance framework for Belgium, ensuring regulatory excellence while enabling safe, scalable growth in international remittances.🎯 Your Responsibilities in this RoleOwn and evolve NALA’s AML/CFT framework in Belgium, ensuring full compliance with local law, EU directives, and NBB expectationsLead end-to-end suspicious activity investigations and act as the nominated officer for CTIF-CFI reportingDeliver and maintain the Overall Risk Assessment (ORA), covering customer, product, and corridor-level financial crime risksAct as the primary point of contact for regulators and law enforcement, managing audits, inspections, and ongoing relationshipsDesign and monitor internal controls and KPIs/KRIs to ensure ongoing effectiveness of the compliance programProvide strategic advisory to leadership on new products, market expansion, and risk appetite decisions🔥 Must-have requirementsExperience operating as MLRO or equivalent senior compliance role in a regulated environment7+ years of AML/CFT experience within a Payment Institution or Electronic Money InstitutionDeep knowledge of Belgian AML regulations, NBB expectations, and EU AML directivesProven track record managing SAR/STR reporting and regulatory interactionsStrong experience conducting complex financial crime investigations (e.g. layering, smurfing, cross-border schemes)Professional fluency in English and either French or DutchMeets “Fit and Proper” requirements for senior compliance roles with the NBB💪 Nice to have requirementsPrevious experience in a high-growth fintech or remittance businessExperience working with transaction monitoring systems and regtech toolsLLM or legal/compliance academic background✅ Success in the role looks like3-Month MetricsFully onboarded as the nominated AML officer with regulators and established key regulatory relationshipsCompleted review of existing AML/CFT framework with clear action plan for gaps and improvements6-Month MetricsDelivered an updated ORA and implemented enhancements to controls, monitoring, and reportingEstablished scalable, data-driven compliance processes supporting growth without increased regulatory risk⭐️ Benefits35 Days Off including your local bank holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.Enhanced Parental Leave: We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
👋 About Us
NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.
We operate two core products:
- NALA, our consumer app making cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia.
- Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments.
Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.
At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.
Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion.
🙌 Your Mission
Build and lead a best-in-class AML/CFT compliance framework for Belgium, ensuring regulatory excellence while enabling safe, scalable growth in international remittances.
🎯 Your Responsibilities in this Role
- Own and evolve NALA’s AML/CFT framework in Belgium, ensuring full compliance with local law, EU directives, and NBB expectations
- Lead end-to-end suspicious activity investigations and act as the nominated officer for CTIF-CFI reporting
- Deliver and maintain the Overall Risk Assessment (ORA), covering customer, product, and corridor-level financial crime risks
- Act as the primary point of contact for regulators and law enforcement, managing audits, inspections, and ongoing relationships
- Design and monitor internal controls and KPIs/KRIs to ensure ongoing effectiveness of the compliance program
- Provide strategic advisory to leadership on new products, market expansion, and risk appetite decisions
🔥 Must-have requirements
- Experience operating as MLRO or equivalent senior compliance role in a regulated environment
- 7+ years of AML/CFT experience within a Payment Institution or Electronic Money Institution
- Deep knowledge of Belgian AML regulations, NBB expectations, and EU AML directives
- Proven track record managing SAR/STR reporting and regulatory interactions
- Strong experience conducting complex financial crime investigations (e.g. layering, smurfing, cross-border schemes)
- Professional fluency in English and either French or Dutch
- Meets “Fit and Proper” requirements for senior compliance roles with the NBB
💪 Nice to have requirements
- Previous experience in a high-growth fintech or remittance business
- Experience working with transaction monitoring systems and regtech tools
- LLM or legal/compliance academic background
✅ Success in the role looks like
3-Month Metrics
- Fully onboarded as the nominated AML officer with regulators and established key regulatory relationships
- Completed review of existing AML/CFT framework with clear action plan for gaps and improvements
6-Month Metrics
- Delivered an updated ORA and implemented enhancements to controls, monitoring, and reporting
- Established scalable, data-driven compliance processes supporting growth without increased regulatory risk
⭐️ Benefits
- 35 Days Off including your local bank holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
- Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
- Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
We’re on a mission to increase economic opportunities for Africans across the globe, and we’re keen to hear from capable, ambitious, and creative people who want to help bring this vision to fruition. 🚀 Our first product was a mobile money service in East Africa, which gained over 2,000 customers. Now we’ve set our sights on building a bank for the African diaspora across the globe and our initial focus is on remittances. We’re currently launching an international money transfer service for African living overseas, who send money home to their loved ones. We’re backed by: Balderton Capital, Y- Combinator, Accel Partners, and several incredible fintech angel investors including the founders of Monzo, Comply Advantage, Luno, and Simple.Find us on TechCrunch
What we are currently building 🚀 We want to build a bank for the African diaspora globally, initially by starting with a cross-border money transfer service. We believe this is critical to solve to channel economic value back to the African continent. We believe using remittances is one of the best forms of true economic development and we would like to use it as an entry point before building new layers of financial services for the African diaspora. At a starting point we are excited about:
Building Remittances 2.0 - we know remittance fees are a race to the bottom and believe the current model has some things that need to be changed.
Enabling credit - for senders sending money back to Africa so they don’t have to wait till they get their paycheck at the end of the month.
Building infrastructure - enabling payments infrastructure locally in Africa.
Building a community of African diaspora helping us build an incredible product together.
We’re on a mission to increase economic opportunities for Africans across the globe, and we’re keen to hear from capable, ambitious, and creative people who want to help bring this vision to fruition. 🚀
Our first product was a mobile money service in East Africa, which gained over 2,000 customers. Now we’ve set our sights on building a bank for the African diaspora across the globe and our initial focus is on remittances. We’re currently launching an international money transfer service for African living overseas, who send money home to their loved ones.
We’re backed by: Balderton Capital, Y- Combinator, Accel Partners, and several incredible fintech angel investors including the founders of Monzo, Comply Advantage, Luno, and Simple.
Find us on TechCrunch
What we are currently building 🚀
We want to build a bank for the African diaspora globally, initially by starting with a cross-border money transfer service. We believe this is critical to solve to channel economic value back to the African continent. We believe using remittances is one of the best forms of true economic development and we would like to use it as an entry point before building new layers of financial services for the African diaspora.
At a starting point we are excited about:
- Building Remittances 2.0 - we know remittance fees are a race to the bottom and believe the current model has some things that need to be changed.
- Enabling credit - for senders sending money back to Africa so they don’t have to wait till they get their paycheck at the end of the month.
- Building infrastructure - enabling payments infrastructure locally in Africa.
- Building a community of African diaspora helping us build an incredible product together.
