Job Summary
The Global Head of Compliance is a senior management who serves as the ultimate custodian of the organization's compliance framework, regulatory integrity, and ethical standards. The incumbent provides strategic leadership to ensure the group operates in full alignment with all applicable laws, international regulations, and internal standards.
This is a regulator-facing leadership role requiring a seasoned fintech, payments, or banking executive with a stellar track record of engaging with financial regulators. The successful candidate will safeguard the group's global licenses, drive the regulatory agenda, and establish robust compliance checkpoints across the organization so that commercial growth and operational processes are structurally bound to appropriate governance, financial crime controls, and risk frameworks.
Responsibilities:
- Regulator Interface: Act as the primary, senior point of contact with the regulatory bodies across the globe, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and any other relevant regional regulators, fostering a transparent, and responsive relationship.
- Global License Ownership & Readiness: Lead the group's licensing applications and maintain a robust compliance framework. Actively audit and demonstrate organizational readiness (staffing, governance, AML/CFT controls, operational resilience, and customer protection arrangements) to satisfy regulatory standards.
- Inquiry Management: Oversee and respond to regulatory queries, audits, and investigations in a clear, accurate, and highly credible manner.
- Policy Architecture & Regional Controls: Design, implement, and continuously update global compliance policies, ensuring that business models, cross-border fund flows, transaction architectures, and internal infrastructure adapt seamlessly to evolving local regulations.
- Cross-Border Fund Flow Governance: Monitor compliance and financial crime risk assessments for transaction corridors between Singapore, Hong Kong, and international markets, ensuring strict adherence to regional customer due diligence (CDD) and record-keeping thresholds.
- Financial Crime & AML/CFT: Serve as the ultimate escalation point for the group's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) frameworks, ensuring cutting-edge transaction monitoring and sanctions screening.
- Operational & Financial Control Oversight: Provide independent compliance oversight over funds movement workflows (both Fiat and Crypto), enforcing strict segregation of duties and adherence to safeguarding rules.
- Independent Auditing: Establish systemic compliance controls and hold all business lines, including the Operations department, strictly accountable to internal policies and regulatory guidelines.
- Product Gatekeeping & Approvals: Embed mandatory compliance milestones and strict approval gates into the Project Management Office (PMO) and product development lifecycles; review and sign off on all new products, cross-border token flows, and system launches prior to go-live.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Law, Business, Finance, or a related field; an advanced degree (e.g., MBA or JD) or professional compliance certifications will be highly preferred.
- Minimum 10+ years of relevant professional experience, with a significant portion spent in senior compliance leadership roles within regulated financial services, fintech, or payments.
- Solid foundation or profound knowledge in payments, merchant acquiring, e-money, cross-border money movement, payment infrastructure, Regulated fintech, digital financial services, or Web3/Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs).
- Proven track record of managing compliance operations or securing licenses across global markets, especially for the Singapore and Hong Kong financial ecosystems.
- Direct and successful prior engagement or established credibility with financial regulators in Hong Kong and Singapore. Candidates with strong exposure to digital asset regulation, on-chain risk controls, and stablecoin settlement mechanisms will be highly advantageous.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable business guidance for senior management and the Board.
- Effectively bilingual in English and Mandarin to manage regional stakeholders and cross-border regulatory contexts.
How to Apply
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