West Africa Remote (Global)

PawaPay is hiring a Cybersecurity Officer – West Africa

Responsibilities

  • Implement the organization's cybersecurity program across West African operations in alignment with established cybersecurity strategies and standards.
  • Perform routine evaluations of risks and system vulnerabilities, offering actionable recommendations for risk reduction based on internal frameworks.
  • Continuously monitor for security threats, detect incidents, and respond promptly, escalating critical issues to the Head of Cybersecurity when necessary.
  • Assist in compliance and regulatory interactions with financial and data protection authorities across both Francophone and Anglophone West African countries.
  • Ensure regional compliance with corporate information security policies and adapt them appropriately to local contexts.
  • Serve as the primary regional contact for cybersecurity matters, supporting internal departments such as Engineering, Operations, and Regulatory Affairs with daily guidance.
  • Organize and facilitate regional security activities including penetration tests, audits, and third-party evaluations, ensuring resolution of identified issues.
  • Lead regional efforts to promote security awareness and deliver training programs across teams.

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide) — West Africa, Europe, Africa, Asia

About company
PawaPay
PawaPay is a pan-African fintech enabling local payment channels used by the mass market to both local and international merchants. We operate in a highly regulated, partner-driven environment and are in scale-up mode, with ambitious growth plans across multiple African markets. Our vision is to simplify business for companies and consumers in Africa and we do that by ensuring that payments simply work, at scale, despite fragmentation and complexity that exists on the Continent. Through our payments API we already facilitate over 4 million transactions a day across 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. We are the largest PSP on the Continent for the processing of mobile money payments, and have positioned ourselves well to lead the payment space as it grows over the next decade.
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Posted 2 hours ago