Lead Partner Onboarding and Due Diligence
Nium provides global real-time payments infrastructure for businesses, banks, fintechs, marketplaces, payroll providers, and travel companies.
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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
You will manage the end-to-end onboarding and ongoing due diligence of banks, payment partners, and financial institutions across multiple geographies. You will coordinate KYC/KYB, AML, financial-crime due diligence, documentation, risk assessments, approvals, reviews, records, and partner queries while working closely with internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in payments, fintech, banking, or financial services.
- Experience in partner onboarding, KYC/KYB, due diligence, or financial-crime compliance within banking or financial services.
- Understanding of AML, financial-crime risk, regulatory requirements, and due-diligence processes.
- Familiarity with banking and payment-partner documentation, risk assessments, and periodic reviews.
- Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Attention to detail, documentation, and organisational skills.
- Ability to independently manage multiple onboarding and review activities while meeting deadlines.
- Exposure to cross-border payments, correspondent banking, SWIFT/BIC, and payment networks.
- Knowledge of legal-entity structures and designations across jurisdictions.
- Experience working with banking partners across multiple regions and regulatory environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end onboarding of banks, payment partners, and financial institutions across multiple geographies.
- Coordinate partner KYC/KYB, AML, financial-crime due diligence, and risk assessments.
- Conduct ongoing and periodic due-diligence reviews of existing partners.
- Assess partner documentation, identify gaps, and follow up to complete onboarding and review requirements.
- Maintain partner records, due-diligence documentation, approvals, and review timelines.
- Manage partner queries and coordinate resolution of onboarding and due-diligence issues.
- Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, Treasury, Operations, Product, and other internal teams.
- Build and maintain relationships with banking and payment partners.
Benefits
- Medical coverage.
- 24/7 employee assistance program.
- Generous vacation programs, including a year-end shutdown.
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the office.
- Company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, and team offsites.
