Xendit - Regulatory & AML Compliance Manager, Singapore
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree-holder with minimum 7+ years of experience in regulatory compliance, AML/CFT or financial crime risk management within regulated financial services, payments or fintech. • Deep understanding of AML/CFT frameworks, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and financial crime risk management • Strong recent and working knowledge of Singapore's regulatory environment, including MAS requirements applicable to licensed Major Payment Institutions • Strong self-motivation and a proactive approach to problem-solving. • Sound commercial judgment, with the ability to balance regulatory requirements, risk appetite and business objectives. • Proven ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical operational controls and sustainable processes. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership. • Comfortable operating independently in a fast-moving environment, taking ownership of complex problems from ambiguity through execution. • Excellent time management and organizational skills to prioritize effectively in a dynamic environment. • Experience implementing or working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tools. • Experience in a high-growth fintech, payments infrastructure company or technology-led financial services business. • Demonstrated track record of building, scaling or transforming compliance frameworks, particularly in environments experiencing rapid growth or organizational change. • Familiarity with payment acceptance, acquiring, cross-border payments, payouts, e-money or platform-based payment models. • Experience partnering with Product, Engineering or Data teams to design or improve technology-enabled compliance controls. • Exposure to compliance automation, RegTech, AI-enabled workflows or transaction monitoring systems. • Experience operating across multiple APAC jurisdictions or supporting regional regulatory initiatives. • Relevant professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA or equivalent.
Responsibilities
• Own Regulatory Compliance & Governance • Continuously strengthen operational and procedural adherence to applicable MAS requirements, including the Payment Services Act (PSA), Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA), relevant MAS Notices (e.g., PSN01, PSN02, PSN03) and other applicable notices • Lead regulatory engagement including license-related matters regulatory applications and variations, and ongoing submissions and supervisory examinations, serving as a trusted point of contact for the MAS and other relevant authorities • Proactively anticipate, interpret, and assess regulatory developments in Singapore and the broader APAC region, translating regulatory changes into actionable business, product and operational requirements for internal teams. • Drive a risk-based approach to regulatory governance, ensuring robust controls, clear accountability and effective oversight • Strengthen Financial Crime Risk Management • Oversee and enhance Xendit’s AML/CFT compliance framework, ensuring alignment with local statutory obligations and international regulatory standards. • Oversee enhanced due diligence (EDD), transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, periodic reviews and suspicious transaction reporting operational workflows, maintaining dynamic rules, identifying weaknesses in existing controls and driving sustainable and timely remediation through improved policies, processes and technology. • Partner with operational teams to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and scalability of financial crime controls. • Build Scalable Compliance Infrastructure • Translate regulatory obligations into scalable operating processes, technology-enabled controls and governance frameworks that support increasing transaction volumes and business complexity Partner with Product, Engineering and Operations to embed compliance requirements into product architecture, merchant onboarding and payment workflows. • Draft, update, and implement local compliance policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and governance frameworks. • Design and deliver localized AML/CFT frameworks that can be adapted across products to foster a high-standard compliance culture across all local operations. • Act as a strategic compliance partner to Product, Commercial and senior leadership teams on new products, partnerships and complex enterprise merchant requirements. • A Bonus Compliance Superpower • We're looking for someone who brings more than deep regulatory and AML/CFT expertise. Ideally, you have a second area of technical specialization that sets you apart! Whether that's • a deep understanding of payments infrastructure and fund flows • hands-on experience with compliance engineering and RegTech • expertise in data analytics and financial crime detection, • the ability to translate regulatory requirements into product architecture and technology-enabled controls • experience building transaction monitoring systems • lead complex licensing initiatives across multiple markets • or automated compliance processes at scale • We don't expect you to have all these capabilities. What excites us is someone who combines strong regulatory foundations with a distinctive technical skill set, and wants to apply both to building the next generation of compliance infrastructure at Xendit
Benefits
• Build, don't just maintain. Help shape the compliance infrastructure of a growing payments platform, with the opportunity to solve complex regulatory challenges through technology and better systems. • Build, don't just maintain • Work at the intersection of regulation and innovation. Partner directly with the teams building payment products and infrastructure used by leading businesses across Southeast Asia. • Work at the intersection of regulation and innovation • Have meaningful ownership and influence. Take responsibility for critical regulatory outcomes, influence business decisions and work closely with senior stakeholders. • Have meaningful ownership and influence • Grow into broader leadership. Develop the experience, relationships and track record to pursue future opportunities in functional leadership, regional compliance or larger transformation initiatives as the organization scales. • Grow into broader leadership
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