Senior Manager, Financial Crime Compliance, Suspicious Activity Reporting

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system used by more than 675,000 businesses, is hiring a Senior Manager for Financial Crime Compliance, Suspicious Activity Reporting in Singapore. Reporting to the FCC Transaction Monitoring Lead, the role leads and oversees a team of analysts and conducts independent, risk-based reviews of complex cases escalated from first- and second-line operations, covering KYC, name screening and transaction monitoring.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee, mentor and train a team of FCC L3 analysts, ensuring high-quality case resolution, adherence to SLAs and process governance.
• Review and resolve assigned KYC, enhanced due diligence, name-screening and transaction-monitoring cases, including alerts escalated from operational teams.
• Assess customer profiles, ownership and control structures, business activities, transaction patterns, counterparties and supporting information.
• Conduct internal and external research and critically assess information provided by customers or internal stakeholders.
• Reach evidence-based conclusions or recommendations, documenting rationale, supporting evidence and follow-up actions.
• Identify financial-crime risks, recurring themes and process improvement opportunities, and escalate complex or higher-risk cases, potential sanctions matches and suspicious activity concerns.
• Apply local and global Financial Crime Compliance policies, keep complete case records and collaborate with Operations and Compliance stakeholders.
• Stay up to date with financial-crime risks and regulatory developments and perform ad-hoc tasks requested by the line manager.

Required profile

• Degree qualified, or at least 8 years of working experience in the FCC space.
• Proven track record in an AML/CTF or fraud investigations role.
• Experience in FinTech or start-up environments is strongly preferred.

Required skills

• Strong analytical and investigative skills, able to assess complex information and reach well-reasoned conclusions.
• Understanding of financial-crime risks, typologies and risk-based review practices.
• Sound judgement, ownership and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.