Compliance Officer

Job overview

• Organization: GCA Pay Limited
• Position: Compliance Officer
• Job category: Finance and Banking
• Job type: Full-time
• Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Minimum experience: Three years

• Application deadline: September 8, 2026

Job description

GCA Pay Limited is seeking a qualified and detail-oriented Compliance Officer to support the company’s regulatory compliance and financial crime risk-management activities.

The successful candidate will work across payments, foreign exchange, treasury, supplier payments, partner settlements and cross-border transactions.

Key responsibilities

The Compliance Officer will be responsible for:

• Conducting customer KYC, KYB, beneficial ownership verification and enhanced due diligence.

• Performing sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEP) and adverse-media screening on customers, counterparties, beneficiaries and business partners.

• Reviewing transaction-monitoring alerts and investigating unusual or potentially suspicious activities.

• Reviewing supporting documents for supplier payments and cross-border transactions.

• Escalating suspected money laundering, fraud, sanctions violations and other financial crime risks.

• Supporting regulatory reporting, licence applications, licence renewals and ongoing compliance obligations.

• Conducting compliance due diligence on banks, payment service providers, vendors and strategic partners.

• Maintaining accurate, confidential and audit-ready compliance records.

• Supporting compliance monitoring, staff training, internal audits and regulatory inspections.

Education requirements

Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields:

• Law

• Finance

• Accounting

• Banking

• Economics

• Risk Management

• Business Administration

• Criminology

• Information Security

• Data Protection

• A related field

Experience requirements

Candidates must have:

• A minimum of three years of relevant experience in compliance, AML/CFT, financial crime, risk, investigations, regulatory operations or internal controls.