About the role
As the Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance, you are the architect of our global financial crime combatting strategy. Your mission is to empower our MLROs and Country Compliance Officers by providing them with a world-class, tech-driven framework, unified policies, and scalable tooling. You build the global standards and systems that ensure our in-country Compliance leaders succeed in meeting regulatory expectations, including audits and inspections.
Key Responsibilities
Global Standard Setting: Develop and implement a group-level AML/CFT control framework tailored to a diverse portfolio of payments services, cards, and emerging products, ensuring a consistent risk appetite across all entities while allowing for local legal "add-ons."
Systems & Product Enablement: Partner with Product and Engineering to build a "Global Compliance Stack." You own the global requirements for our proprietary or vendor-led KYC, screening, and advanced transaction monitoring leveraging AI / ML.
Vendor Engagement: Stay abreast of the latest tools and providers in the industry for FinCrimes Compliance and lead the technical selection for FCC vendors ensuring quality and cost-efficiency, with global scale.
Global Strategy & Governance: Develop and implement a group-level AML/CFT control framework tailored to a diverse portfolio of payments services, cards, and emerging products.
Risk Management: Conduct regular global and regional risk assessments; maintain oversight on complex investigations and filing of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs/SARs).
Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing, cross-border compliance team, fostering a culture of "Challenge, Escalate, and Respect".
Operational Oversight: Drive continuous improvement in KYC/CDD/EDD workflows, rule validation, and back-testing to ensure controls remain effective during rapid scaling.
Requirements
Experience: 12+ years of senior compliance leadership within a global payments firm, fintech, or international bank.
Industry Expertise: Familiarity with the FinCrime regulations around the world, including Payment Services Act, BSA/USA PATRIOT Act, and evolving international cross-border payment standards.
The "Architect" Mindset: You have 15+ years of experience, but you’ve moved past manual reviews. You think in terms of scalable systems and automated workflows.
Influence without Authority: Proven ability to lead a matrixed organization where regional MLROs have local accountability but look to you for functional direction and "best-in-class" tools.
Fintech Native: You understand the nuances of high-velocity payments, crypto-linkages, and digital-first onboarding.
Crisis & Advisory: You are the "Level 2" escalation point for complex, cross-border financial crime cases that span multiple jurisdictions.
Time-to-Market: Speed at which a new country can "plug in" to the global FCC stack and go live.
Platform Health: Significant reduction in manual work for regional teams through automation and high-fidelity alerting.
Audit Readiness: 100% consistency in global data standards during any regional regulatory examination.
Detection Effectiveness: High "true positive" rate in transaction monitoring and significant reductions in false positive alerts.
Regulatory Standing: Zero major findings in regulatory audits and successful expansion into new markets via timely licensing.
Skills Required
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance in EMI/FinTechs
- Extensive experience in designing, implementing, and running financial crime technology infrastructures
- Knowledgeable in governance and Financial Crime Compliance policies
- Able to communicate and present to senior management
- Experienced people manager
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Nium Insights
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.
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