Financial Crime Prevention Manager - Singapore or Sydney

Zodia Custody; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zodia Custody seeks a Financial Crime Compliance lead for its APAC operations, focusing on due diligence and risk management. The role requires expertise in financial crime compliance, regulatory standards, and a proactive approach to helping Zodia scale safely within the digital asset landscape.

Benefits

Private health care

Flexible bank holidays

Pension Plan

30 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years in digital assets, financial services, or professional services.
• Good understanding of regulatory frameworks in Singapore, Hong Kong, or Australia.
• Experience with client types like high-net-worth individuals or complex entities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct investigations on transaction monitoring, screening alerts, and on-chain transactions.
• Manage financial crime risk across APAC and translate local regulatory needs.
• Support Quality Assurance Reviews and compile risk metrics.

Skills

Financial crime compliance

Risk management

Attention to detail

Autonomous

Team collaboration

Industry awareness

Job description

Zodia Custody is an institution-first digital asset custodian that does not compromise on its control standards. We are regulation first in everything we do. Within the Financial Crime Compliance Operations department, we are at the forefront of innovation and alongside our colleagues are engaged in safely developing Business Services to support the fast-structuring crypto-industry.

This is a key role within the Group Financial Crime Compliance Operations Team (“FCC”). This role is pivotal in ensuring that Zodia executes its ongoing due diligence and monitoring obligations on clients and effectively manages risk in the first line. The role is based in Singapore or Sydney and will be the local 1LoD Financial Crime lead in addition to providing support to the overall team to ensure the business remains compliant with both regulatory and legislative requirements imposed by Global regulators. This will be an important role within Zodia Custody’s APAC operations in addition to the group responsibilities.

You'll spend your time:.

• Conducting investigations relating to ‘classic’ Transaction monitoring, screening alerts and on-chain transactions.
• Managing financial crime risk for Zodia Custody across APAC and helping to translate local regulatory requirements into efficient operational processes by working with the local revenue team and group operations teams
• Reviewing due diligence (including KYC) completed by onboarding analysts and taking a leading role in assessing risk in relation to complex clients wanting to become customers of Zodia Custody.
• Assessing risk in relation to complex non-client relationships and partnerships that Zodia Custody enters into.
• Supporting the conduct of Quality Assurance Reviews into work completed by
• Helping respond to information requests from third parties and Zodia Custody partners as required.
• Assist in the compilation of risk metrics and the identification, escalation and management of financial crime risk including regular reporting to key risk management committees
• Supporting the review and update of department procedures and drive system and process improvements.
• To assist with any other operational tasks as might reasonably be requested.

The role will be based in Singapore or Sydney. Whilst we expect you to work within local time-zone hours, there will occasionally be required meetings with group stakeholders and managers based in London.

Above all, we are looking for people that are excited and proactive about helping Zodia Custody scale in a compliant, thoughtful and controlled way.

• You have a minimum 4 years working in a digital assets, financial services or professional services firm with experience in financial crime compliance, operations or consulting;
• You have a good understanding of the regulatory framework in Singapore, Hong Kong or Australia, particularly relating to AML, Sanctions, Tax Evasion and Terrorist Financing;
• You have financial crime experience with client types such as high-net-worth individuals, complex entities or business lines such as digital assets, private banking or commercial banking;
• You have a good understanding of risk management;
• You're a self-starter, driving and autonomous, able to make prioritisation decisions and able to work independently with minimum supervision;
• You have experience managing multiple deadlines through to completion and have excellent attention to detail;
• You're resilient and comfortable working in a fast paced and ambiguous environment where the day to day job is constantly evolving and changing
• You are hands-on and great at execution;
• You're a team player and collaborate well with other people including with teams that may be partly remote;
• You have industry and market awareness of requirements, developments and initiatives that may impact Zodia and/or its clients in the financial crime compliance regulatory environment.
• You will ideally speak languages in addition to English

• Private health care
• Flexible bank holidays (can chose whether to work on bank holidays and use the leave elsewhere in the year)
• Pension Plan
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays