Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Financial Crime Compliance Manager, APAC

We are proud to be partnering with our client, a globally established financial services organization with a significant international footprint and a growing presence across Asia Pacific. Operating across multiple regulated business lines including capital markets, payments, trading, and institutional financial services, the organization serves a diverse client base spanning corporates, financial institutions, and market participants worldwide.

As the business continues to expand across key APAC markets and enhance its regulatory infrastructure, there is a need to appoint a Financial Crime Compliance Manager to support the evolving financial crime compliance agenda. This is a high-visibility role that offers broad regional exposure and the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders across compliance, legal, risk, operations, and business leadership teams.

Position Overview

Reporting directly to the Head of Compliance, APAC, you will be responsible for overseeing financial crime compliance matters across multiple jurisdictions in the region. The role carries broad responsibility for AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, regulatory engagement, and financial crime risk management.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, providing guidance on complex onboarding cases, high-risk customer relationships, emerging regulatory developments, and financial crime risk considerations across a range of products and services. In addition, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the firm's financial crime framework, ensuring that policies, controls, and monitoring programmes remain aligned with regulatory expectations and industry best practices.

This position also offers meaningful involvement in strategic compliance initiatives, including technology transformation, surveillance enhancements, compliance automation projects, and the implementation of new risk management solutions across the region.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will provide subject matter expertise and advisory support on AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and broader financial crime matters to business units and senior management across APAC. You will partner closely with legal, risk, operations, technology, and business stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate financial crime risks while supporting commercial growth objectives.

You will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing financial crime policies, procedures, and controls, ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory requirements and international standards. This includes conducting enterprise-wide risk assessments, evaluating emerging risks, and implementing appropriate mitigation measures.

Operationally, you will oversee enhanced due diligence reviews, transaction monitoring investigations, sanctions screening activities, suspicious transaction reporting, and other financial crime surveillance processes. You will also support regulatory inquiries, audits, compliance reviews, and management reporting requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

A key component of the role involves contributing to the firm's ongoing investment in compliance technology and operational efficiency. You will participate in the evaluation, implementation, and optimization of transaction monitoring, screening, surveillance, and compliance management systems to strengthen the overall control environment.

The Successful Applicant

The ideal candidate will possess approximately 7 or more years of financial crime compliance experience gained within regulated financial services institutions, capital markets firms, payment services providers, brokerages, or regulatory bodies. You will have a strong understanding of AML/CFT frameworks, sanctions compliance, customer due diligence requirements, suspicious transaction reporting obligations, and financial crime risk management principles.

You bring a practical, solutions-oriented approach and are comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments where business growth and regulatory expectations must be balanced effectively. Experience advising senior stakeholders, handling complex investigations, and managing regulatory interactions will be highly valued.

Exposure to multiple APAC jurisdictions and experience supporting regional compliance programmes would be advantageous. Familiarity with financial crime technology platforms, transaction monitoring systems, screening solutions, or surveillance tools will also be beneficial.

This opportunity would suit a commercially minded compliance professional who enjoys working across diverse products, jurisdictions, and stakeholder groups, and who is looking to take on a broad, hands-on regional role within a dynamic and expanding international organization.

Celine Tay

Executive Director – Executive Search (Corporate Functions)

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Company EA Licence No: 24S2548

Personnel Registration Number: R1113056