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Global Head of Commercial Compliance – Financial Institutions

Nium

Global Head of Commercial Compliance – Financial Institutions

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London, Greater London, England, GBR

Hybrid

Expert/Leader

Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Cryptocurrency

The Role

Lead compliance strategy for Financial Institutions, ensuring compliance framework supports innovation and commercial expansion. Oversee AML/CTF, KYC/KYB, and risk assessments.

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About Nium

Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.

Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In July 2025, we delivered the largest month in our 10-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $50B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.

It is an incredible time to join us, and we are only just getting started.

Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and run a card issuance business live in 34 countries. Backed by regulatory licenses in more than 40 markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross-Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies list.

In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high-growth company.

About the Role

As the Vertical Head of Commercial Compliance for the Financial Institutions segment, you will be working as part of Nium’s global, dynamic compliance team. This role will lead the compliance strategy for Financial Institution businesses and is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the compliance framework. You will ensure that product innovation and commercial expansion are supported by robust, scalable compliance controls.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance Strategy & Framework Development: Work with MLROs for various licensed entities to design and operate a comprehensive compliance framework for FIs, covering AML/CTF, sanctions, KYC/KYB, and transaction monitoring, tailored to platform businesses.

Commercial & Product Advisory: Proactively partner with sales, marketing, and product teams to embed compliance-by-design into new products, services, and expansion initiatives.

Regulatory Commercialization: Translate global regulatory changes (e.g., stablecoin settlement, AI-driven payments) into actionable commercial opportunities for the FI vertical.

Risk Assessments: Conduct regular risk assessments and internal audits of commercial activities to identify vulnerabilities.

Due Diligence: Strengthen due diligence processes for third-party relationships.

Contractual Review: Support legal teams in reviewing high-risk commercial contracts to ensure compliance with trade controls and anti-bribery laws.

Monitoring & Surveillance: Implement automated monitoring, trade surveillance, or reporting systems to detect potential violations.

Requirements

Fintech Veteran: 10+ years in compliance, with deep expertise in cross-border payments, commercial banking or fintech. Experience in compliance within a complex international financial institution or for financial institution businesses.

Commercial Mindset: You view compliance as a foundational product feature that helps win deals, not a barrier that stops them.

Global Navigator: Expert knowledge of global regulatory frameworks in major markets, including Singapore, United Kingdom, Europe, North America.

Tech-Forward: Comfortable working with AI-native tools and stablecoin settlement rails.

Technical Knowledge: Deep expertise in international banking regulations, AML/KYC requirements, market conduct rules, and institutional product knowledge.

Hands-on Capability: Proven experience implementing compliance technology solutions (automation, transaction monitoring) rather than just advisory roles.

Leadership Presence: Strong ability to influence senior management and work effectively with cross-functional teams (Legal, Risk, Product).

What we offer at Nium

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.

We Care: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.

We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities. Check out CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.

We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!

We Thrive With Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

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This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Nium expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Skills Required

10+ years in compliance with expertise in cross-border payments
Experience in international financial institutions
Strong knowledge of global regulatory frameworks
Expertise in AML/KYC regulations
Proven experience implementing compliance technology solutions

Nium Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nium and has not been reviewed or approved by Nium.

Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered market-competitive in certain tech and sales roles and higher‑paying geographies, with upside evident for specific functions and seniority. Signals of strong totals in U.S. engineering/product and top‑end sales support a generally favorable footing.
Healthcare Strength — Company materials and external listings describe comprehensive health coverage and 24×7 assistance support aligned with a modern fintech package. These elements are positioned as core parts of the global offering.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous parental leave, standard PTO, and a company‑wide year‑end shutdown expand time‑off support beyond basics. Public career materials and job ads consistently reference these components.

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The Company

713 Employees

Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium prides itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication. Nium’s key solutions: • Pay-ins • Pay-outs • Card issuance • Banking-as-a-service • Crypto-as-a-service We are a global leader in B2B modern money movement • Launched the world’s first global platform for crypto-as-a-service • $280M Funding • Series D • $2B Valuation o 130+M End customers o 190+ Payout markets o 100+ Supported currencies • Named on CB Insight’s Fintech 250 List • Financial Times’ List of Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies 2021 • Fintech Employer of the Year’ at the 2021 Singapore Fintech Festival • Best B2B Payment Platform’ at the 2021 Future Digital Awards

Why Work With Us

We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform modern money movement. We are driven by our co-created values of "seek the simple", "make it better" and "win it together". These aren't just buzzwords; they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money.