Worldpay Singapore Mlro

**Position Type**:
Full time
**Type Of Hire**:
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
**Education Desired**:
Bachelor of Business Administration
**Travel Percentage**:
5 - 10%
**About the team**

The Financial Crimes Compliance team is responsible for preventing, managing and mitigating the financial crime risks, that may occur through the payments we process, for our global customers or the products and services our business provides. Our goal is to be a be a trusted and independent second line of defence control function, in-order to protect FIS from financial crime risks.

**What you will be doing**

As a Compliance Director, you will be the money laundering reporting officer (MLRO or Singaporean equivalent) for Singapore. You will be responsible for running, embedding and enhancing the Singaporean financial crime and regulatory compliance programs. You will also have engagement with senior internal stakeholders (e.g. business) and external stakeholders (e.g. regulators). You will also represent the Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance teams at relevant Singaporean risk / governance committees. Recognising the need to drive the long-term success of the financial crime and regulatory compliance programs, and the current size of the global Financial Crime Compliance team, the successful person will need to possess a “can do attitude” and have exemplary communication skills.

**What you bring**:

- Substantial experience (10 years plus) in financial crime compliance, gained from working in a large global financial institution e.g. within a bank (managing the financial crime risks associated with correspondent banking / payment processing / core banking), fintech or payment processor.
- Experience of leading a financial crime compliance team.
- Ideally previously been a MLRO (or equivalent).
- Experience of building out a financial crime and regulatory compliance program.
- Knowledge of the financial crime and regulatory environment in Singapore
- Financial crime advisory experience including undertaking financial crime risk assessments.
- Knowledge of wider financial crime risks e.g. bribery and corruption, sanctions and money laundering.
- Good senior internal and external stakeholder engagement experience, including with regulators (e.g. MAS) and law enforcement.
- High standard of written and verbal English communication.
- The ability to handle and resolve challenging situations, work in a collaborative manner and be part of a wider international financial crime compliance team.

**Added bonus if you have**:

- An anti-money laundering and / or compliance related qualification e.g. International Compliance Association (“ICA”) or Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“ACAMS”).
- Ability to travel internationally (where required, and when circumstances allow).

**What we offer you**
- A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities.
- The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial crime.
- A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect.
- Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset.

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**Sourcing Model**

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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