StraitsX - Sr. Regulatory Compliance Officer
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Banking, Finance, Business, or a related field. • 5+ years of regulatory compliance experience within a MAS-regulated financial institution, payment firm, bank, or audit/advisory firm. • Deep understanding of the Payment Services Act (PSA) and relevant MAS notices/guidelines, particularly covering AML/CFT, Technology Risk, Outsourcing, and Regulatory Reporting. • Proven hands-on experience managing regulatory returns, implementing regulatory changes, and engaging directly with MAS. • A strong track record of driving regulatory implementation projects from initial gap analysis through to successful rollout across business, product, and tech teams. • Exceptional writing skills with the ability to draft clear, accurate gap analyses, management papers, and regulatory responses for senior leadership on the first attempt. • Highly organized and capable of managing multiple concurrent deliverables while securing timely input from cross-functional peers without direct reporting lines.
Responsibilities
• What Will You Do • Serve as the primary point of contact for internal/external audits and banking partner inspections, coordinating evidence (RFIs) and drafting management responses. • Conduct pre-audit mock reviews and manage the central issue tracking log to ensure all audit findings and deficiencies are remediated on time. • Project manage regulatory change initiatives across business, product, and tech teams to ensure new compliance controls are successfully built and deployed. • Track and internalize new MAS notices, guidelines, and circulars, proactively briefing senior management on operational and business impacts. • Partner with the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team to address gap analyses (e.g., MAS PSN01/2) and track end-to-end corrective action plans. • Review new product launches and material business changes, advising stakeholders on regulatory requirements and compliance risks. • Respond to due diligence questionnaires from banking partners and perform onboarding/periodic reviews of our own vendors to maintain the outsourcing framework. • Oversee key regulatory obligations and policy registers, and assist in preparing the enterprise-wide ML/TF risk assessment.
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