Executive, Compliance Operations (6-month contract)

Funding Societies | Modalku Group; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid vacations

Flexible working

Health insurance coverage

Mental health and wellness initiatives

Company laptop and tech support

Job summary

Funding Societies | Modalku Group in Kuala Lumpur is seeking an experienced professional for an operations and compliance role. You will support daily compliance tasks, investigate suspicious transactions, and collaborate with various teams to enhance operational efficiency. The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's degree and has over 2 years of relevant experience, along with strong analytical and communication skills. Benefits include flexible working, medical coverage, and mental health initiatives.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of operations, compliance, and/or KYC experience, ideally within financial services or payments industry.
• Good knowledge of AM/CFT and onboarding industry processes and fraud trends.
• Ability to complete tasks with tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support regional day-to-day operational compliance tasks.
• Conduct PEP/sanctions checks and adverse news screening.
• Perform suspicious transaction/fraud investigation across markets.
• Collaborate with sales/cs, finance, and engineering teams.
• Assist in ad-hoc projects assigned by team leader.
• Keep informed about industry developments and trends.

Skills

Operations experience

Compliance knowledge

KYC experience

Attention to detail

Analytical mindset

Strong communication skills

Critical thinking

Problem-solving

Transaction monitoring

Fluency in English

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance or relevant field

Job description

Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed and operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India (Peak XV), Softbank Vision Fund, Khazanah and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium‑sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors, as well as payments solutions to SMEs and consumers.

Core Values

• Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed
• Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation
• Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results
• Serve with Obsession: Build win‑win relationships for the long‑term by having a customer obsession

This position sits in our Payments team, a fast-growing part of our organization which offers businesses a suite of payments and collections products in one easy‑to‑use digital platform. This role will be instrumental in supporting the team's ability to adapt to new challenges, streamline operations, and contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our compliance processes.

What you will do

• Support regional day‑to‑day operational compliance tasks including payment approval, customer onboarding (including CDD and EDD) and transaction monitoring
• Conduct and review PEP/sanctions checks and adverse news screening
• Perform suspicious transaction/fraud investigation across markets and suggest next course of action
• Collaborate with different teams, such as sales/cs, finance and engineering team to handle client queries
• Assist in ad‑hoc project assigned by team leader including periodic account review, platform process improvement project, etc.
• Keep informed about industry developments, trends and best practices and assess its effect on operational processes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance or relevant field
• 2+ years of operations, compliance and/or KYC experience, ideally within financial services or payments industry
• Good knowledge of AM/CFT and onboarding industry processes and fraud trends
• Attention to details and hands on attitude able to complete tasks with tight deadlines
• An analytical mindset with excellent organizational skills
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills
• Sound judgment and strong sense of ethics
• Transaction monitoring experience (identify suspicious transaction behaviours)
• Fluent in English speaking and writing is a must (can speak/write in Bahasa is a bonus)

Benefits

• Time off – We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country.
• Flexible working – We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical benefits – We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too.
• Mental health and wellness – We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we organize org‑wide fitness initiatives and engage partners to provide well‑being coaching.
• Tech support – We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity.

For more information on our payments team, kindly visit our website https://www.cardup.co/. For further information and stories about our company, see the relevant links.