Financial Crime Compliance Manager
- Compensation
- SGD 10K–SGD 15K / mo
- Location
- Singapore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Legal
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- ● Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Business, Risk Management or a related discipline.
- ● Minimum 5–8 years of relevant financial crime compliance experience, preferably within
- fintech, payments or regulated financial services.
- ● Strong understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions compliance, transaction monitoring,
- customer due diligence and financial crime investigations.
- ● Experience managing financial crime compliance operations, control frameworks or
- investigative teams.
- ● Familiarity with international financial crime standards, including FATF recommendations
- and applicable sanctions regimes.
- ● Ability to assess financial crime risks associated with cross-border payments, card
- programmes and digital financial services.
- ● Strong analytical, investigative, communication and stakeholder management
- capabilities.
- ● Professional certification such as CAMS or ICA is advantageous.
- Key Performance Indicators
- ● Operational effectiveness: Timely resolution of financial crime alerts, investigations
- and escalations against agreed SLAs.
- ● Investigation quality: Accuracy, consistency and completeness of investigation
- outcomes and supporting documentation.
- ● Control effectiveness: Identification and timely remediation of financial crime control
- gaps.
- ● Risk management: Effective identification, assessment and escalation of higher-risk
- activity and relationships.
- ● Process efficiency: Improvements in case management, monitoring effectiveness,
- automation and productivity.
- ● Governance: Timely and accurate management reporting, regulatory support and audit
- remediation.
- Core Competencies
- ● Strong technical financial crime compliance expertise
- ● Sound risk-based decision-making and professional judgment
Full description
Crime Compliance Manager is responsible for managing the effective execution of Reap's financial crime compliance framework across its operations, ensuring that financial crime risks are appropriately identified, assessed, monitored and mitigated.
The role provides oversight of AML/CFT, sanctions compliance, transaction monitoring, investigations and customer due diligence controls, ensuring consistent application of global standards and adherence to applicable regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Crime Compliance Management
● Manage the implementation and day-to-day operation of financial crime compliance controls, policies and procedures.
● Oversee AML/CFT, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and ongoing due diligence processes.
● Ensure consistent application of financial crime standards across products, markets and jurisdictions.
● Identify control gaps and coordinate remediation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Transaction Monitoring & Investigations
● Oversee transaction monitoring alerts, investigations and case management to ensure timely and effective resolution.
● Review complex or higher-risk financial crime cases and provide guidance on appropriate escalation and mitigation.
● Coordinate suspicious activity escalations and reporting with relevant MLROs and regional Compliance teams.
● Analyse emerging financial crime typologies, trends and suspicious activity patterns.
● Maintain appropriate investigation documentation and audit trails.
- Customer Due Diligence & Sanctions Compliance
● Provide second-line oversight of customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence and
ongoing monitoring controls.
● Review and escalate high-risk customers, PEPs, sanctions matches and adverse media
findings in accordance with applicable approval frameworks.
● Support customer risk assessments, periodic reviews and remediation programmes.
● Provide financial crime risk guidance on client relationships, partners and new business
activities.
- Financial Crime Risk & Control Enhancement
● Support financial crime risk assessments covering products, customers, jurisdictions and
transaction activity.
● Evaluate the effectiveness of financial crime controls and recommend improvements.