Key Responsibilities:
- Onboarding Complex Organizations: Your primary focus will be leading the onboarding of highly complex organizations and financial institutions, ensuring thorough due diligence, timely reviews, and effective risk management.
- Strengthening the KYB Framework: You’ll refine and enhance onboarding procedures across the Group, ensuring consistency, depth, and speed in application reviews and escalation handling.
- Driving Automation & Innovation: Partner with tech teams to streamline compliance operations through automation and machine learning, building scalable solutions for a fast-growing organization.
- Leading Compliance Strategy: Define and execute the strategic direction of KYB/KYC operations, aligning regulatory requirements with business goals.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary liaison with MLROs, regulators, and external partners, ensuring transparency and trust in all compliance matters.
- Performance & Risk Reporting: Prepare and present key reports to Senior Management and Compliance Committees, offering insights into performance, risk exposure, and operational health.
- Team Leadership & Development: Oversee training initiatives, build team capabilities, and ensure consistent knowledge standards across regions.
- Operational Excellence: Monitor KPIs and SLAs, ensuring the team consistently meets performance benchmarks.
- Documentation & Governance: Ensure all reviews and investigations are properly documented in line with Group standards.
Requirements:
- Minimum 10-12 years of experience in KYB, complex organizations & FI’s onboarding, Sanction Screenings, Investigations-related work.
- Ability to work in a challenging, highly regulated environment, serving as the primary liaison with MLROs, regulators, and other external stakeholders.
- Good understanding of the Payments/Fintech industry.
- ACAMS certification is preferred but not mandatory.
- Strong Interpersonal and English communication skills (both verbal and writing).
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an investigative mindset.
- Team player, but also able to work independently and self-motivated.
- Attention to detail, efficiency, and ability to work under pressure within tight deadlines.
- Good hands-on experience with Advanced MS-Excel including Macros is an added advantage. Knowledge with data analytics will be an added advantage (not mandatory).
- Willingness to learn continuously and keep up to date with the Payments industry and its regulatory landscape.
- Experience to build, lead and motivate a Compliance Operations team.
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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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