Technical Financial Crime Manager
Salary
Not disclosed
Job Type
full time
Posted
6 days ago
Closing date
7 Jul 2026
Job Description
As we enter a phase of accelerated growth, we are seeking a Technical Financial Crime Manager to own, design, and scale our fraud and AML detection capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of data, engineering, and financial crime operations, with end-to-end accountability for ensuring our monitoring systems are technically robust, domain-accurate, and scalable across multiple markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, build, test, and optimise fraud and AML detection rules, scenarios, thresholds, and models used in production systems.
- Translate complex datasets and domain insights into actionable detection logic embedded in monitoring and alerting platforms.
- Establish feedback loops between investigation outcomes and detection logic to continuously improve signal quality.
- Measure and manage detection performance using quantitative metrics (precision, recall, false positives, alert-to-case conversion, loss metrics).
- Own the end-to-end fraud and AML detection domain, ensuring alignment between prevention, detection, investigation, and remediation.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to embed detection logic into core systems and improve monitoring, alerting, and case management tooling.
- Identify gaps, risks, and inefficiencies, leading initiatives to strengthen controls and scale operations sustainably.
Requirements
- 7+ years in financial crime roles in payments, fintech, banking, or financial services.
- Strong technical expertise in data analysis, including advanced SQL and experience working with large, complex datasets.
- Expert Python skills, including experience with libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, and/or model pipelines.
- Proven experience designing, building, and tuning risk detection systems (fraud, AML, or similar).
- Solid understanding of statistical modelling, machine learning, and/or time-series forecasting.
- Experience measuring and optimising detection performance using quantitative metrics.
About the employer
Paystack
Paystack is a hiring organisation operating in Lagos, Nigeria within the finance sector. They are currently recruiting for the Technical Financial Crime Manager role advertised on this page. Visit the official application link for more about the company, its culture and the team you would be joining.
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