ADVANCE.AI is a leading AI company that provides digital transformation, fraud prevention, and process automation solutions for enterprise clients. A leader in Artificial Intelligence, risk management and has a global footprint with operations across ASEAN and wider APAC and Latin America, it currently partners over 700 enterprise clients across banking, financial services, fintech, payment, retail and e-commerce sectors. ADVANCE.AI has a global footprint across 12 markets in 3 continents.
ADVANCE.AI is part of Advance Intelligence Group, a Series D-backed Tech Unicorn valued at US$2 billion, and also one of the largest independent technology startups based in Singapore. Founded in 2016, the Group has presence across South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and Greater China. The Group is backed by top tier investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Warburg Pincus, Northstar,Vision Plus Capital, Gaorong Capital, Pavilion Capital, GSR Ventures and Singapore-based global investor EDBI.
Ranked among LinkedIn's Top 15 Startups in Singapore in 2022 (the third year in a row we've been on the list), we are partners with 700+ enterprise clients across Southeast Asia, South Asia and Mexico in sectors such as banking, financial services, fintech, payment, retail and e-commerce.
Advance Intelligence Group employees are united by a shared vision and purpose: to Advance with Intelligence for a Better Life--for our customers, colleagues and communities.
Our culture is built on values that are core to who we are and what we stand for:
- We foster an INNOVATION mindset
- We achieve results with EFFICIENCY and excellence
- We take pride in the QUALITY of our work
- We uphold INTEGRITY in all we do
- We embrace COLLABORATION to work across business lines and borders
Position Summary
We are looking for a hands-on, mid-level Compliance Manager to help build and strengthen compliance capabilities across ADVANCE.AI's fintech platform. The role focuses on supporting the responsible growth of our payments and KYC product lines across Southeast Asia, ensuring regulatory expectations are met while enabling product innovation and commercial execution.
This is primarily an individual contributor role with responsibility for designing and implementing core compliance frameworks, particularly in KYC/KYB, vendor and outsourcing compliance, and enterprise client assurance. The successful candidate will work closely with product, engineering, commercial, legal, and data-protection stakeholders, with guidance from the Group Compliance function and exposure to regional regulatory strategy.
Candidates must be comfortable taking on and developing foundational compliance responsibilities — including implementing KYC/KYB processes and anti-bribery controls — even where they have not previously owned these areas end-to-end. We value strong learning agility and a willingness to step into new regulatory domains in a fast-moving technology environment. Experience in crypto or digital-payments compliance and software-driven compliance processes is strongly preferred.
This role is suited to someone who enjoys building compliance capabilities from the ground up rather than maintaining mature regulatory programmes. Credit-bureau expertise and responsibility for information-security certification programmes (e.g. ISO or SOC2) are not required.
The role reports functionally to the Group Chief Compliance Officer, with operational oversight from the CEO of ADVANCE.AI.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive compliance initiatives supporting ADVANCE.AI's crypto payments and KYC/KYB product lines
- Work with product, engineering, and commercial teams to embed regulatory requirements into products and client delivery
- Build practical compliance frameworks covering KYC/KYB processes, vendor / outsourcing compliance, and enterprise client assurance
- Develop core AML/CFT and anti-bribery controls suited to a fast-growing fintech environment
- Conduct compliance risk assessments for new products, partnerships, and market expansion
- Monitor regulatory developments and provide pragmatic guidance to the business
Requirements
- 5–8 years compliance experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or technology-enabled financial services
- Exposure to crypto or digital-payments regulatory environments and familiarity with KYC/KYB or identity-verification solutions
- Strong execution mindset and ability to operate independently in fast-moving commercial settings
- Willingness to take ownership of foundational compliance work and learn new regulatory domains
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills
Preferred
- Experience in high-growth fintech, crypto, or technology scale-ups
- Exposure to vendor / outsourcing compliance or enterprise client compliance engagements
- Demonstrated capability to learn using AI tools or automation to scale compliance effectiveness
