Nium23d ago

Global Head of Financial Crime Strategy

SingaporeFull-timeexecutive

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About Nium Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today.

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About Nium

Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.

Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In July 2025, we delivered the largest month in our 10-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $50B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.

It is an incredible time to join us, and we are only just getting started.

Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and run a card issuance business live in 34 countries. Backed by regulatory licenses in more than 40 markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross-Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies list.

In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high-growth company.

About the Role

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NIum is looking for a Global Head of Financial Crime Strategy to lead prevention and detection, and reporting strategy, and to collaborate closely with our operations, legal, regulatory compliance and product teams.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter and driven individual who is keen to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

This role will lead Financial Crime Strategy for the first line of defence and report directly to the Chief Operations Officer (COO). With a heavy focus on technology, automation and continued optimization, the role remit will be to continue to build out the Financial Crime Compliance [FCC] programme with priority being to support and protect the business against Money Laundering Risk (including Counter-Terrorist Financing and sanction risk), and to ensure a swift and effective detection of money laundering activity and embed anti money laundering legislation, rules and guidance throughout the business.

The scope of this role is broad and encompasses a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities, including but not limited to the following;

Manage and maintain a high calibre Financial Crime Compliance within the 1^st Line of Defence, supporting and protecting the business against Financial Crime.

Work alongside the Head of Compliance Operations to manage and set department and individual goals and targets for all Compliance Operations tasks.

Responsibility for the further development, implementation and maintenance of an effective tactical and strategic FCC programme.

Monitoring regulatory FCC developments and notifying relevant changes and ensure the design and implementation of new/amended FCC controls are effective.

Maintenance of Financial Crime Systems, driving continuous validity testing and optimization.

Delivering FCC regular training programme to embed a culture of awareness.

With the help of MLROs and the 2nd Line Compliance Team, understand and have continuing knowledge of FCC requirements to ensure that the AML programme is consistent with all applicable local laws, regulations and rules and that the FCC programme is updated, as required, in light of changes to local laws, regulations and rules.

Develop and manage a regular monitoring and reporting process to inform senior management, the audit committee and the board.

Manage remediation activities across Financial Crime, being the central conduit between Operations, Technology, and Compliance.

Establish and maintain liaison with local financial industry representatives to proactively identify current financial crime trends, criminal activity and the identification of organised criminal groups and influence security best practises.

Where applicable, liaison with national and international law enforcement entities and liaison with local financial industry representatives to proactively identify financial crime trends/criminal activity and organised criminal attacks.

Minimum 10 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance in EMI/FinTechs.

Highly numerate with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and running financial crime technology infrastructures.

Knowledgeable and experienced in governance and Financial Crime Compliance policies and procedures with knowledge on fintech Financial Crime Compliance risk and advisory.

Able to communicate and present to senior management or business partners.

Experienced people manager.