Europe MLRO

👋 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.