FinCrime Insights Architect (AML & Fraud Systems)

Black Pen Recruitment; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Pen Recruitment is sourcing a FinCrime Insights & Systems Analyst for a fintech/payments technology company in Africa. The role sits at the intersection of data, systems, and financial crime strategy to detect and report AML and fraud across fiat and crypto.

You will own tools and insight powering the AML and fraud teams, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data to evolve detection, reporting, and proactive controls across multiple jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Crime (AML/fraud) in fintech, payments, banking or crypto.
• Strong SQL skills for querying large datasets.
• Hands-on with dashboard/BI tools to build and maintain reporting.
• Familiarity with applying AI/ML to financial crime use cases.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AML and fraud reporting framework across fiat and crypto and ensure regulator-ready outputs.
• Be the insights engine providing data, dashboards, and analysis to assist investigations and proactive decisioning.

Skills

SQL

BI Dashboards

AI/ML in FCrime

Regulatory knowledge

Cross-functional work

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Metabase

Power BI

Crypto analytics tools

Job description

Black Pen Recruitment is sourcing a FinCrime Insights & Systems Analyst for a fintech/payments technology company in Africa. The role sits at the intersection of data, systems, and financial crime strategy to detect and report AML and fraud across fiat and crypto.

You will own tools and insight powering the AML and fraud teams, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data to evolve detection, reporting, and proactive controls across multiple jurisdictions.