
VP/Director, Financial Crime Risk Business Oversight
TD
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Singapore • Singapore
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About the role
- Provide senior oversight and challenge of AML/ATF/ABAC risks across APAC
- Review and challenge risk assessments, control effectiveness, issue materiality and risk acceptance decisions
- Ensure alignment with enterprise standards and local regulatory expectations.
- Accountable for end‑to‑end governance of audit, regulatory and compliance issues
- Assess findings, determine severity and root cause, and challenge remediation plans
- Oversee issue tracking, escalation and formal closure with senior management and regulators
- Act as a senior FCRM representative for regulatory engagement across APAC
- Oversee regulatory reporting, onsite examinations and information requests
- Own regulatory change governance, including horizon scanning, impact assessment and remediation oversight
- Provide governance oversight and challenge of AML/ATF/ABAC policies, standards and procedures
- Own APAC FCRM management and committee reporting, articulating key risks, issues, trends and priorities
- Provide APAC oversight of centrally performed AML controls, including transaction monitoring and sanctions screening
- Own outsourcing governance, including MSA review, KPI/KRI assessment, service performance oversight and escalation
- Maintain a working understanding of APAC products, business models and transaction flows
- Apply product knowledge to support governance decisions, risk challenge, audit issue assessment and regulatory escalation
- Support other FCRM functions through product‑informed guidance and challenge, without assuming execution or coverage responsibilities
Requirements
- Minimum 15 years’ experience in AML/FCRM, regulatory compliance or financial crime risk management within financial services
- ACAMS or equivalent professional certification
- Demonstrated experience in governance, oversight and senior challenge roles, including audit and regulatory engagement
- Strong knowledge of APAC AML/ATF/ABAC regulatory frameworks and supervisory expectations
- Strong understanding of capital markets products and business models, and how financial crime risks manifest across different products, distribution models and jurisdictions
- Ability to translate product and transaction knowledge into effective governance, risk challenge and regulatory decision‑making
- Experience overseeing centralised and outsourced AML control models
- Proven ability to engage regulators, auditors and senior management with credibility and authority
- Strong judgement and decision‑making capability in complex and ambiguous risk environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing senior management and committee‑level reporting.
Benefits
- health and well-being benefits
- medical coverage
- paid time off
- career development
- reward and recognition programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
AMLATFABACregulatory compliancerisk managementaudittransaction monitoringsanctions screeninggovernance oversightKPI/KRI assessment
Soft Skills
judgementdecision-makingcommunicationcredibilityauthorityoversightchallengeengagementproduct knowledgerisk challenge
Certifications
ACAMS