Compliance Manager/Assistant Manager (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid, Singapore

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing Asia Pacific fintech providing multi-currency digital wallets and payment solutions for consumers and businesses.

What you will do

• Review and approve high-risk onboarding cases in Singapore using documented, risk-based decisions and escalate cases when required.
• Own and enhance the customer due diligence framework for individual and corporate customers, including identity verification, beneficial ownership, source of funds and wealth, name screening, and customer risk rating.
• Oversee onboarding and ongoing name-screening procedures, including watchlist management and screening-system configuration and performance.
• Partner with Product and Engineering on screening-system enhancements and support onboarding and operations teams with case-handling and escalation guidance.
• Perform quality assurance and sampling, identify control gaps and training needs, and report KYC and screening metrics and trends.
• Monitor regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry typologies and convert them into policy, procedure, and risk-rating updates while supporting regional teams.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of experience in a KYC function for the Manager level, or at least 7 years for the Assistant Manager level, including hands-on approval or review of high-risk onboarding cases.
• Experience with name-screening systems and procedures, including alert review and disposition, match logic, and list management.
• Strong knowledge of CDD/EDD, beneficial ownership, sanctions and PEP screening, and customer risk-rating methodologies.
• Sound judgment and confidence in making and defending risk-based approval decisions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across business, operations, and compliance teams.
• Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity, changing processes, and evolving regulatory expectations.
• Experience supporting a head office, regional, or group function across multiple jurisdictions is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with eKYC and digital onboarding.
• Knowledge of transaction monitoring and ML/TF typologies across customer types.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Singapore.
• Entrepreneurial culture focused on diversity and inclusion.
• Opportunity to work with a fast-growing regional fintech team across multiple jurisdictions.