Regulatory & AML Compliance Manager (Fintech)

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Company

hirify.global is an enterprise payments platform providing payment processing, global payouts, localized FX, identity compliance, and fraud protection across Southeast Asia and global markets.

What you will do

• Own regulatory compliance and governance for Singapore, including MAS requirements, the Payment Services Act, the Financial Services and Markets Act, relevant MAS Notices, licensing matters, regulatory applications, submissions, and supervisory examinations.
• Interpret regulatory developments in Singapore and APAC and translate them into actionable business, product, and operational requirements.
• Oversee and improve AML/CFT controls covering enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, periodic reviews, suspicious transaction reporting, and financial crime risk assessments.
• Build scalable compliance policies, SOPs, governance frameworks, and technology-enabled controls with Product, Engineering, Operations, Risk, and Commercial teams.
• Advise leadership on new products, partnerships, payment workflows, and complex enterprise merchant requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of experience in regulatory compliance, AML/CFT, or financial crime risk management within regulated financial services, payments, or fintech.
• Deep knowledge of AML/CFT frameworks, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and financial crime risk management.
• Strong recent working knowledge of Singapore’s regulatory environment and MAS requirements for licensed Major Payment Institutions.
• Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical operational controls and sustainable processes.
• Strong commercial judgment, stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, time management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of complex problems, and influence cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Experience implementing or working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tools.

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth fintech, payments infrastructure company, or technology-led financial services business.
• Experience building, scaling, or transforming compliance frameworks during 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 on technology-enabled compliance controls.
• Exposure to compliance automation, RegTech, AI-enabled workflows, or transaction monitoring systems.
• Experience across multiple APAC jurisdictions or with regional regulatory initiatives.
• Professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA, or equivalent.
• Additional specialization in payments infrastructure, compliance engineering, data analytics, financial crime detection, product architecture, licensing, or automated compliance processes.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership individual contributor role with significant cross-functional exposure.
• Opportunity to build compliance infrastructure rather than only maintain existing processes.
• Direct collaboration with Product, Engineering, Risk, Commercial, Operations, and senior leadership teams.
• Potential to develop into functional, regional, or broader compliance leadership as the business scales.