Global Head of Financial Crime Strategy
Nium provides global real-time payments infrastructure for businesses, banks, fintechs, marketplaces, payroll providers, and travel companies.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
About Nium Pte. Ltd.
Nium is a global payments infrastructure company that enables businesses and financial institutions to collect, hold, convert, and disburse funds across borders. Its offerings include multi-currency accounts, global payouts, foreign exchange, beneficiary account verification, physical and virtual card issuance, stablecoin-backed cards, the Nium Portal, and APIs for payment integration. Nium serves banks, money transfer operators, marketplaces, payroll providers, spend-management companies, creator-economy platforms, airlines, hotels, and online travel agencies.
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About the Role
Architect Nium’s global financial crime strategy by creating unified standards, policies, and scalable tooling for MLROs and country compliance officers. Enable compliance systems, oversee risk assessments and investigations, lead vendor selection, improve operational controls, and lead a cross-border compliance team.
Requirements
- 12+ years of senior compliance leadership in a global payments firm, fintech, or international bank.
- Familiarity with global financial crime regulations, including the Payment Services Act and BSA/USA PATRIOT Act.
- 15+ years of experience with scalable systems and automated workflows.
- Ability to lead a matrixed organization and provide functional direction.
- Understanding of high-velocity payments, crypto linkages, and digital-first onboarding.
- Experience handling complex cross-border financial crime cases.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a group-level AML/CFT control framework.
- Define global requirements for KYC, screening, and advanced transaction monitoring systems.
- Select financial crime compliance vendors.
- Conduct global and regional risk assessments.
- Oversee complex investigations and Suspicious Transaction Report and Suspicious Activity Report filings.
- Build, mentor, and lead a cross-border compliance team.
- Improve KYC/CDD/EDD workflows, rule validation, and back-testing.
Benefits
- Performance bonuses
- Sales commissions
- Equity for specific roles
- Recognition programs
- Medical coverage
- 24/7 employee assistance program
- Generous vacation programs
- Year-end shutdown
- Flexible hybrid working environment with 3 days per week in the office
- Role-specific training
- Internal workshops
- Learning stipend
- Company-wide social events
- Team bonding activities
- Happy hours
- Team offsites