Lead Transaction Monitoring Financial Crime Operations

Reap is a stablecoin-native financial infrastructure company providing business accounts, Visa corporate cards, global fiat payments, expense management, and embedded card and payment services.

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
About Reap

Reap is a Hong Kong-founded fintech that bridges traditional finance and digital assets for global businesses. Its platform supports stablecoin-funded corporate cards, business payments settled in fiat, expense controls, treasury operations, and embedded card-issuing and payment infrastructure. Payward completed its acquisition of Reap on July 1, 2026; Reap continues operating as a standalone brand within the Payward ecosystem.

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About the Role

You will lead complex transaction-monitoring investigations across fiat and crypto flows, clear alert backlogs, and document investigation outcomes. You will tune detection rules, design new monitoring scenarios, maintain procedures and escalation standards, and mentor colleagues on investigation quality and best practices.

Requirements

  • 8–15 years of transaction-monitoring experience
  • Background in fintech, payments, or Web3/crypto
  • Knowledge of Visa and Mastercard monitoring obligations, AML typologies, and fraud typologies
  • Experience with transaction-monitoring and blockchain analytics tools such as Unit21, Flagright, Chainalysis, or Elliptic
  • Ability to articulate monitoring rule logic
  • Experience operating in evolving startup environments
  • CAMS, CFE, or ICA International Diploma in AML is preferred
  • Experience establishing a transaction-monitoring function or migrating to automated monitoring is preferred
  • Working proficiency in SQL or data visualization is preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead investigations into high-risk and complex AML, fraud, and crypto-specific alerts
  • Triage and clear card-scheme and digital-asset alert backlogs within SLAs
  • Prepare and file SARs/STRs with relevant authorities
  • Perform forensic analysis across fiat and blockchain transaction webs
  • Act as the primary operational stakeholder for the transaction-monitoring vendor
  • Analyze alert performance and propose rule-tuning changes
  • Design, test, and promote monitoring scenarios for PSP and crypto-asset risks
  • Draft and maintain transaction-monitoring SOPs
  • Translate regulatory and scheme requirements into process controls
  • Define escalation matrices, investigation standards, and quality-control checkpoints
  • Mentor peers, conduct quality reviews, and lead knowledge-sharing sessions

Benefits

  • Annual leave and public holidays
  • Health insurance budget
  • Flexible remote work options
  • Home office equipment budget
  • Corporate Reap Card