Lead – Fraud & Financial Crime Risk
ABX
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Malaysia
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About the role
- Develop strategies, implement controls, and lead teams to protect an organization from financial crime and scaling fraud prevention.
- Ensure regulatory compliance, analyze threats, enhance processes, drive awareness and training staff.
- Act as a key liaison with business units and senior leadership.
- Provide strategic leadership across fraud prevention, detection, investigation, case management, governance and regulatory engagement.
- Develop short-term and long-term strategies for fraud and financial crime preventive controls.
- Assess the fraud and financial crime landscape within the financial services and general environment.
- Oversee investigations into suspicious activities, transaction monitoring alerts, and complex financial crime cases.
- Ensure adherence to relevant regulations, sanctions screening, and any other reporting requirements.
Requirements
- Minimum 15 years of working experience covering the banking industry/ financial technology /mobile banking fraud investigation and surveillance, Fraud risk or AMLCFT risk, and financial crime investigation/detection/analysis/policy making roles.
- Candidates with both experience are preferred.
- Has sound knowledge of the relevant regulatory guidelines governing the financial technology business in fraud risk, AMLCFT requirements, and is comfortable and experienced in dealing with regulators and law enforcement organisations.
- Has experience and knowledge of how to identify and analyse sources of fraud and AML, their related risks, and use different approaches and tools to measure and manage the risk.
- Able to perform in a fast-paced environment with quick analytical thinking, has a strong sense of urgency, meticulous, inquisitive, very keen to share knowledge, and passionate about process improvement.
- Confident decision maker, capable of making risk decisions on suspicious transactions, PEPs, and high fraud risk transactions.
- Experience in conducting relevant risk assessments and ability to communicate effectively with 1LOD teams, to ensure they understand the risks in their area.
- Strong Understanding of Key financial Crime and Fraud risk indicators and metrics, and can develop them, summarize into reports which explain key trends on a monthly basis for senior management and the board.
- Strong command of English, both written and spoken.
- Have strong networking experience with the banking industry, e-wallet/e-commerce, and other digital financial services/banking peers.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior and Board levels.
- Hands-on experience with fraud detection systems (Anti-Fraud & AML solutions), rule engines, and analytics.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Competitive salary
- Ongoing professional development
- Welcoming and supportive culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
fraud preventionfinancial crime investigationregulatory compliancerisk assessmenttransaction monitoringAMLCFTdata analysiscase managementprocess improvement
Soft Skills
analytical thinkingdecision makingcommunicationleadershipstakeholder managementnetworkingteam collaborationinquisitivesense of urgencyknowledge sharing