Compliance Officer
Super Group Africa is seeking a Compliance Officer to manage in-country AML/CFT compliance and reporting obligations for Sports Betting Group Ghana. The role involves operating within a globally aligned compliance framework while acting as the Company’s Nominated Officer and appointed Money Laundering Compliance Officer.
The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, investigating, and escalating unusual and suspicious betting activity. They will liaise with supervisory authorities, law enforcement, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure statutory and regulatory expectations are met, while maintaining independence from business execution to challenge and influence decision-making at management level.
- Ensuring fulfilment of in-country AML Compliance and Reporting obligations.
- Represent the Company at local regulatory engagements and compliance related in-country stakeholder engagements where in-person representation is required.
- Drive the implementation of AML, CTF and financial crime management policies, systems, practices and procedures within Sports Betting Group Ghana.
- Ensure completion of AML, CTF and financial crime training, ensuring all necessary staff receive appropriate training and guidance.
- Ensure that the applicable transaction monitoring tools, with clear reporting regarding high-risk customers is implemented in Ghana.
- Maintain independence from business execution, while exercising sufficient authority to access systems, data, personnel, and third-party service providers, and to challenge, escalate, and influence decision-making at management level.
- Support and coordinate regulatory inspections, internal audits, and independent reviews, including the management of findings, remediation plans, and follow-up actions.
- Contribute to group-level compliance initiatives, reporting, and governance forums, ensuring country-specific risks, trends, and regulatory developments are appropriately communicated and addressed.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in AML Compliance within Ghana (required).
- Strong knowledge of Ghanian regulatory frameworks (required).
- Attention to detail and accuracy, particularly in external communications (required).
- Professionally recognized local or international certification in AML (required).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and effectively (required).
- Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams, with a focus on achieving shared goals (required).
- Minimum of 3 years of prior experience in gambling, payments or financial services industry (nice-to-have).
- Regulatory compliance expertise beyond AML compliance (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with AML issues and suspicious transaction monitoring systems (nice-to-have).
- Experience performing thorough analyses of customer information (nice-to-have).
- Experience preparing suspicious activity reports (SARs) (nice-to-have).
- Experience conducting investigations relating to AML (nice-to-have).
- Learning and development programmes.
- Performance tool for meaningful feedback.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Comprehensive medical aid.
- Group Life cover including life insurance and dread disease cover.
Betway Africa is the African arm of Betway, the sports-betting and online-casino brand owned by Super Group (SGHC), a holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Operating since 2006, it delivers sports betting and casino products - including the Jackpot City, Lucky Nugget and Ruby Fortune brands - across markets such as South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique. The division employs more than 1,000 people, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It covers functions spanning marketing, technology, finance and customer care for Betway's African operations.
