Global Head of Financial Crime Strategy

InstaReM Pte Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Nium, a leading real-time cross-border payments platform, is hiring in Singapore for a Global Head of Financial Crime Strategy. The role focuses on prevention, detection and reporting while coordinating with operations, legal, regulatory compliance and product teams.

The successful candidate will drive the FCC program, strengthen anti-money laundering controls, and ensure compliance across the business in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Lead the Financial Crime Strategy across prevention, detection and reporting.
• Collaborate with operations, legal, regulatory compliance and product teams.
• Build out the FCC programme to address Money Laundering and sanction risk.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the first line of defence for financial crime controls.
• Drive technology and automation to enhance detection.
• Embed AML legislation, rules and guidance throughout the business.

Job description

About Nium

Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.

Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In July 2025, we delivered the largest month in our 10-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $50B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.

Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and run a card issuance business live in 34 countries. Backed by regulatory licenses in more than 40 markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross‑Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross‑Border Payments Companies list.

In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high‑growth company.

About the role

NIum is looking for a Global Head of Financial Crime Strategy to lead prevention and detection, and reporting strategy, and to collaborate closely with our operations, legal, regulatory compliance and product teams.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter and driven individual who is keen to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

This role will lead Financial Crime Strategy for the first line of defence and report directly to the Chief Operations Officer (COO). With a heavy focus on technology, automation and continued optimization, the role remit will be to continue to build out the Financial Crime Compliance [FCC] programme with priority being to support and protect the business against Money Laundering Risk (including Counter‑Terrorist Financing and sanction risk), and to ensure a swift and effective detection of money laundering activity and embed anti money laundering legislation, rules and guidance throughout the business.

The scope of this role is broad and encompasses a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities, including but not limited to the following;