Senior Compliance Manager

Your Role

• Plan, design, and provide advisory oversight on B2B and C2C cross-border processes and operating models covering KYB/onboarding, sanctions screening, AML/CTF, and transaction monitoring activities.
• Define and enhance transaction monitoring approaches, including tracking, reviewing, and assessing financial transactions to identify potential regulatory, sanctions, and financial crime risks.
• Provide oversight and challenge on the use of advanced analytics and monitoring tools applied to both fiat and digital asset transaction flows, identifying unusual or irregular activities.
• Review and oversee Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) frameworks and perform Level 2 reviews and investigations for complex or high-risk cases, including high-risk customers, cross-border activity, and unusual transaction behaviour.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with applicable laws, regulations, license conditions, and supervisory expectations governing AML/CTF, sanctions, SVF operations, and cross-border financial transactions.
• Working closely with Product, Technology, Legal, Operations, and Business teams to assess financial crime and compliance risks and ensure controls are embedded by design.
• Support regulatory engagement activities, including responses to regulatory enquiries, inspections, and thematic reviews, and oversee remediation of identified issues.
• Provide regular risk reporting and management information to senior management and governance forums on financial crime risk exposures and control effectiveness.

To Succeed in this Role

• 5–7 years of relevant experience in AML/CTF, sanctions, and financial crime compliance covering B2B and C2C cross-border onboarding, customer due diligence, and transaction monitoring.
• Strong understanding of B2B and C2C cross-border compliance requirements, financial crime risks, and regulatory expectations applicable to payments, SVF, and digital asset-related businesses.
• Hands-on experience providing oversight or advisory support for transaction monitoring frameworks covering both fiat currencies and digital assets.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver complex compliance or risk initiatives, with excellent project management and cross-department collaboration skills.
• Experience or knowledge of stablecoins, virtual assets, or blockchain-based payment solutions is highly desirable.
• Prior experience working within or advising HKMA-regulated entities (e.g. SVF licensees or authorised institutions) is strongly preferred.

Professional Qualifications

• ACAMS – Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
• ICA Diploma or Advanced Certificate in AML, Financial Crime, or Compliance
• Other relevant professional compliance or risk management qualifications