Are you passionate about shaping Financial Crime Compliance strategies across diverse African markets while driving measurable business growth?
Do you enjoy partnering across teams to deliver innovative solutions that enhance customer experience and regulatory outcomes?
About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management.
About the Role
You will define and lead the execution of the Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) strategy across the LexisNexis Risk Solutions business in Africa. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will align strategic priorities, identify growth opportunities, and deliver outcomes that strengthen market position and customer value. This role focuses on translating insights into action, enabling revenue growth and impactful solutions across the region.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for achieving revenue targets and providing excellent customer experience
- In partnership with other Market Planning team members, develops and executes an Africa FCC strategy, in alignment with global FCC priorities and the priorities of other functions across LNRS
- Identify potential areas of growth for the FCC business across Africa and define strategy for accelerating revenue. Develop M&A opportunities in line with global FCC and business services strategy
- Work closely with Product and Data teams to develop FCC Product strategies and roadmaps and associated business cases
- Partner closely with Sales to win new business, expand existing relationships, and drive referrals
- Partner closely with Marketing to expand market presence, heighten brand awareness and trust, and intelligently drive qualified leads to Sales
- Partner with Professional Services on consultative selling and customer management
- Provide insight and research on competitive intelligence, market sizing, industry trends, regulatory trends and market drivers to inform strategy and improve knowledge sharing across the organisation.
Requirements
- Cross-functional leadership and the ability to work effectively with key partners across a large, global and matrixed organization
- Experience of working across the African continent
- Business acumen and strategic planning
- Disciplined management of complex agenda
- Critical thinking and analytical skills, and high level of comfort with problem-solving
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; team player
- French and/or Portuguese speaker preferred
- Domain expertise in the FCC space
Working for You
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Medical Aid
- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
- Study Leave
Risk benefit statement
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work
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Skills Required
- Domain expertise in Financial Crime Compliance (AML/CTF, fraud, identity verification)
- Experience working across the African continent
- Cross-functional leadership in large, matrixed organizations
- Business acumen and strategic planning
- Proven ability to manage complex agendas and deliver results (including achieving revenue targets)
- Critical thinking and strong analytical/problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work as a team player and partner with Sales/Marketing/Product
- French and/or Portuguese speaker
LexisNexis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about LexisNexis and has not been reviewed or approved by LexisNexis.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are often described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside life and disability protection. Wellbeing programming such as wellness initiatives and fitness support is also positioned as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are repeatedly framed as a meaningful component of total rewards through 401(k) matching and access to stock purchase opportunities. Performance bonuses and charitable matching are also included as financial-support features within the broader rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as broad, including PTO, paid holidays, sick leave, and paid volunteer time. Flexible work arrangements, including remote options and flexible hours, further strengthen the overall rewards experience.
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What We Do
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets, monitoring their brands and competition, and in mitigating business risk. We collaborate with universities to educate students, and we support nation-building with governments and courts by making laws accessible and strengthening legal infrastructures. We partner with leading global associations and customers to collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 130 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
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