Anti-Vice & Financial Crime Surveillance Unit Head

Mynt; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mynt, the fintech behind GCash, invites senior leaders to fortify our AML and transaction monitoring functions in the Philippines. You will shape the unit’s operating model, deploy real-time detection indicators, and drive escalations for high-risk activity across national and global standards.

Your role requires guiding a surveillance team, optimizing false positives through ML-based tuning, and collaborating with forensics on regulatory inquiries.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in financial crime detection, transaction monitoring, or AML compliance within financial services or fintech.
• At least 3+ years of direct experience in a leadership or managerial capacity overseeing a transaction monitoring or surveillance team.
• Proven history of managing detection programs or alert triage systems related to high-risk areas like OSAEC, human trafficking, or gambling/gaming compliance

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and optimize the dedicated unit’s core operating model, workflows, and detection performance metrics from the ground up.
• Design and implement real-time transaction monitoring indicators specifically tailored to capture child exploitation financial flows, ensuring swift alert triaging and immediate escalation.
• Establish comprehensive monitoring rules targeting illegal gaming networks, structured peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, and high-risk transactional velocity
• Oversee initial investigative reviews of flagged activities to confirm suspicious patterns, ensuring the timely filing of high-quality Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
• Partner with product and engineering teams to integrate advanced technologies, including machine learning and behavioral analysis, into the unit’s core detection capabilities to reduce false positives.
• Provide support as needed to the dedicated forensics team during law enforcement inquiries or regulatory escalations.

Skills

Leadership experience

AML/Financial crime detection

Analytical thinking

Regulatory awareness

Tools

SQL

Rule tuning

Job description

Do you want to take the first step in making Filipinos’ lives better everyday? Here in GCash we want to stay at the forefront of the FinTech industry by creating innovative, meaningful, and convenient financial solutions for the nation! G ka ba? Join the G Nation today!

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Unit Setup- Build, manage, and optimize the dedicated unit’s core operating model, workflows, and detection performance metrics from the ground up.
2. OSAEC Detection & Triaging - Design and implement real-time transaction monitoring indicators specifically tailored to capture child exploitation financial flows, ensuring swift alert triaging and immediate escalation.
3. Vice & Illegal Gambling Surveillance - Establish comprehensive monitoring rules targeting illegal gaming networks, structured peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, and high-risk transactional velocity
4. Alert Analysis & Reporting- Oversee initial investigative reviews of flagged activities to confirm suspicious patterns, ensuring the timely filing of high-quality Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
5. Typology Development & Tuning - Partner with product and engineering teams to integrate advanced technologies, including machine learning and behavioral analysis, into the unit’s core detection capabilities to reduce false positives.
6. Ad-Hoc External Liaison- Provide support as needed to the dedicated forensics team during law enforcement inquiries or regulatory escalations.

Position Requirements:

Work Experience

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in financial crime detection, transaction monitoring, or AML compliance within financial services or fintech.
• At least 3+ years of direct experience in a leadership or managerial capacity overseeing a transaction monitoring or surveillance team.
• Proven history of managing detection programs or alert triage systems related to high-risk areas like OSAEC, human trafficking, or gambling/gaming compliance

Technical Knowledge

• Deep comprehension of regional and international AML/CFT laws, regulatory frameworks,and compliance reporting standards (e.g., BSA, FinCEN, AMLC rules)
• Solid understanding of specific digital financial footprints, including peer-to-peer (P2P)transfers, convertible virtual currency (CVC) usage, and high-velocity payment methods
• Mastery of advanced transaction monitoring software, SQL, or rule-tuning methodologies,with a strong focus on alarm/false-positive minimization.

Core Competencies

• Exceptional emotional resilience and empathy needed to manage teams analyzing highly sensitive, distressing alerts (specifically OSAEC).
• Expert analytical capabilities and structured critical thinking to quickly evaluate transaction patterns and establish logical grounds for suspicion.
• Strong collaboration skills to seamlessly hand off confirmed leads to the dedicated forensics team and cooperate on ad-hoc requests.

What We Offer

Opportunity for career growth and development in the #1 FinTech company in the country Working with a dynamic and highly collaborative team who want to change the game A company that values their people with highly competitive and flexible compensation and benefits package