Wirex

Financial Crime Team Leader – APAC

Wirex

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Malaysia

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Create and sustain a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team environment with open communication and clear expectations.
  • Set clear objectives, allocate work effectively, and manage priorities and deadlines across the team.
  • Lead by example by participating in and supporting complex AML, CFT, and fraud investigations across fiat and crypto products.
  • Apply and oversee the use of fraud rules, monitoring thresholds, and investigative tools in line with approved frameworks.
  • Review, challenge, and approve STRs prior to escalation to the STRO, ensuring regulatory quality and consistency.
  • Oversee ongoing AML monitoring activities, including enhanced due diligence (EDD), source of funds (SoF), and source of wealth (SoW) assessments.
  • Support transaction testing, data validation, and the ongoing enhancement of transaction monitoring systems, scenarios, and controls.
  • Review and contribute to compliance and financial crime training materials to support staff awareness and capability.
  • Identify gaps or weaknesses in current processes, policies, or controls, and work collaboratively to implement remediation and process improvements.
  • Analyse internal and external STR data to identify emerging trends and risks, presenting insights to the Financial Crime Compliance Committee to support risk mitigation.
  • Produce regular MI for the investigations function, highlighting volumes, trends, backlogs, capacity constraints, and resourcing needs.
  • Actively listen to team feedback, addressing concerns, resolving conflicts, and escalating issues where appropriate.
  • Provide support to the Financial Crime Operations Manager on projects, regulatory initiatives, and ad hoc requests.

Requirements

  • Proven experience working within a FinTech, payments, or digital assets environment, ideally with exposure to both fiat and crypto products.
  • Strong and demonstrable experience in financial crime, AML/CFT, and fraud investigations, including STR reporting.
  • Previous people leadership experience is essential, including coaching, performance management, and workload oversight.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Highly organised, resilient, and comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-paced, regulated environment.
  • Solid KYC, customer due diligence, and investigations background, including EDD and complex case handling.
  • Professional certification such as CAMS, ICA, or equivalent is desirable.
  • Familiarity with APAC regulatory expectations (e.g. Malaysia, Singapore, Australia) is advantageous.
Benefits
  • Generous leave + Public Holidays.
  • Paid Charity Day.
  • Flexible working hours and remote working.
  • Company-provided equipment.
  • Annual training and development budget.
  • Extensive opportunity to grow your career at an innovative FinTech.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AMLCFTfraud investigationsSTR reportingKYCcustomer due diligenceEDDdata validationtransaction monitoring systemsfinancial crime compliance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationorganisational skillsconflict resolutionteam collaborationanalytical skillsproblem-solvingresiliencetime managementactive listening
Certifications
CAMSICA