About Africa Talent

Africa Talent by Deloitte (Africa Talent) is a standalone division of Deloitte, owned by Deloitte Africa and Deloitte Netherlands, based in South Africa. Our goal is to meet the growing demand for Talent in Africa and Europe; by recruiting and developing Talent throughout Sub Saharan Africa in order to service the diverse needs to enable projects at our clients. Talent employed will have the full experience of Deloitte, while getting both local and international exposure to a diverse set of clients, working remotely from Africa.  It will take advantage of the demographic reality of Africa as a future source of talent for both Africa and Europe and at its core is the goal to create employment in Africa and invest in African talent.

The ethos of our organisation is characterised by vision, purpose beyond profit and an appetite to innovate and deliver creative, high impact solutions to urgent client challenges.

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte – Africa Talent - is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

This space is a true encapsulation of hybrid work, whereby individuals and teams gain access and exposure to learn from and engage with their global colleagues, while working virtually from their local Deloitte office or from home.

What’s in it for you?

• An ever dynamic and growing internal scaleup with a purpose
• The stability and trustworthiness of a purpose driven global brand, ready to build your own future and add to Africa’s prosperity
• Being the driver of Africa Talent’s day-to-day operations
• A competitive package of benefits
• A hybrid work environment with possibility to work at home some days.

Deloitte Africa Talent has an exciting career opportunity for a Manager with Payments experience within our Regulatory Risk team. This is a great opportunity for someone with the drive and determination to help develop the Regulatory Compliance service line within our Risk Advisory practice. The successful candidate will be innovative in understanding and applying our current capabilities and services. The purpose of this role is to provide compliance and regulatory advice to a broad range of Financial Services clients.

Every client assignment is unique providing you with an opportunity to work on a variety of projects and tasks, across sectors and industries including the following:

• Provision of technical expertise to assist a broad range of clients to manage their relevant regulatory requirements, with a focus on payment firms, platforms and digital assets.
• Support the development of new business opportunities and working closely with the senior management team.
• The interpretation and implementation of regulations.
• Supporting the development of Client Regulatory Strategies and Frameworks.
• Supporting the development of compliance policies and procedures.
• Reviewing client documentation in relation to regulatory requirements.
• Supporting internal audit services specific to compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Secondments to client Compliance, Risk and Operations Functions.
• Design and delivery of regulatory training tailored to meet client’s needs etc.

• Bachelor’s degree

To be considered for this position, you must demonstrate skills and experience in some of the following areas:

• proven experience in compliance or regulatory experience within a financial services environment (preferably Payments, Fintech and Banking) in industry or practice, as part of a Financial Services Institution, or in an advisory, law or business consulting capacity.
• Strong technical knowledge in regulation, regulatory strategy and Financial Regulator rules and guidance procedures, existing and new, with a focus on key payment regulations such as PSD2, MiCA and E-Mony directive.
• A good understanding of aspects of current payments regulation with an ability to develop a specialism in other areas of new regulation such as the evolving Fitness & Probity requirements, senior executive accountability, conflict of interest management and governance arrangements.
• Highly motivated, with a proven ability to work on own initiative within a challenging and dynamic work environment.
• Outstanding communication (both spoken and written) and people skills.
• Demonstrated outstanding planning, project management, networking and influencing skills
• Professional Diploma in Compliance - Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland (ACOI), or other is desirable.
• Strong IT skills (Microsoft applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) are desirable.

We are always interested in talking with professionals about their next career experience. If you have a passion for learning from talented people and benefit from the support of a global organisation and network, apply online now.

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.

At Africa Talent by Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonably accommodating persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

* Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

Hybrid & Vaccination policy

“Deloitte Africa has successfully launched the Hybrid Working model. Aligned with this model is our commitment to maintain an environment for personnel, clients and visitors that is safe and, as far as reasonably practicable, free from health risks.

Medical evidence provides overwhelming and empirical evidence that vaccination is currently the most effective means of preventing the spread of COVID-19 and reducing the likelihood of serious illness, death, transmissions and infections. More information about our mandatory vaccination policy will be discussed during the recruitment process for this position.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.