Senior Compliance Advisor – AML & Regulatory Risk

Checkout Ltd; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Global team culture

Job summary

Checkout.com is recruiting for a Compliance professional in Singapore to provide advisory on high-risk clients, perform investigations, and help shape the local compliance framework. You will draft regulatory reports, support training initiatives, and engage with internal teams to ensure robust risk management.

The role emphasizes KYC/AML, regulatory knowledge, and strong stakeholder management in a fast-paced payments environment. A hybrid working model and opportunities across APAC are offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a Compliance function in the banking or payments space.
• Prior experience in Compliance Advisory is ideal, otherwise, a combination of 2LoD operations experience with exposure to investigations and audit handling is preferred.
• Robust knowledge on Financial Security topics (KYC, AML/CFT, Sanctions, etc.) and other Compliance topics (Payments Services Act, Scheme Rules, etc)

Responsibilities

• Provide operational advisory on high-risk clients during onboarding, periodic reviews or trigger events and deliver justified opinions and recommendations.
• Investigate alerts reported to Compliance, draft STRs and ensure most risky clients are monitored accordingly.
• Proactively handle or participate in development and update of the local compliance framework (Policies, Procedures and Operating Memos).
• Provide quick and precise advisory to internal team inquiries on procedural applications.
• Contribute to updating AML-CTF risk classification and assessing new products/activities.
• Contribute to external regulator reports and internal reports to Senior Management.
• Draft training material/presentations and run training sessions.
• Perform regulatory watch and gap analysis between applicable regulations/sanctions and current framework and propose enhancements.
• Handle or participate as SME in various APAC Compliance projects.

Skills

Compliance

KYC/AML

Regulatory

Stakeholder Mgmt

Audit

Job description

Checkout.com is recruiting for a Compliance professional in Singapore to provide advisory on high-risk clients, perform investigations, and help shape the local compliance framework. You will draft regulatory reports, support training initiatives, and engage with internal teams to ensure robust risk management.

The role emphasizes KYC/AML, regulatory knowledge, and strong stakeholder management in a fast-paced payments environment. A hybrid working model and opportunities across APAC are offered.