
(Senior) Manager, Payments Compliance
- Kuala Lumpur
- Permanent
- Full-time
Here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values GETFS:
- Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
- Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
- Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
- Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.
- Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.
- Assist the Payments Compliance Lead to oversee and enhance the payments compliance program across assigned jurisdictions.
- Interpret and advise Management on payment-related regulations, licensing requirements, and MAS/regulatory guidelines.
- Conduct regular assessments and monitor changes in payments-related regulatory requirements to identify potential compliance gaps and recommend appropriate actions.
- Act as the payments compliance advisor to product and business teams on new initiatives, features, and partnerships.
- Support compliance/regulatory aspects of product design, launch, etc.
- Manage ongoing regulatory topics, inspections, audits, and correspondence with the regulators and partner financial institutions.
- Prepare and coordinate licensing applications, renewals, and any required regulatory filings.
- Assist to design and improve control frameworks to ensure adherence to AML, CFT, sanctions, and conduct requirements in payments.
- Help maintain an effective compliance framework for our payments-related franchise and ensure the Group's adherence to regulatory requirements.
- Assist and implement payment-compliance policies, procedures, and controls to mitigate regulatory risks and promote ethical behavior within the organization.
- Lead compliance testing related to payment services.
- Coach junior compliance team members.
- Assist to drive compliance education and embed a culture of ownership and accountability across the Payments organization, including facilitating training programs to promote awareness and understanding of Compliance obligations
- 6+ years of relevant experience in payments, financial services, or fintech compliance.
- Familiarity with regulatory guidelines across Southeast Asia is preferred.
- Ability to work independently and provide sound judgment in ambiguous or evolving situations.
- Experience collaborating with product, tech, business and operations teams in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- CAMS, ICA, or other compliance certifications are a plus.
- Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
- Flexible working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
- Medical benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too.
- Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we organize org-wide fitness initiatives and engage partners to provide well-being coaching.
- Tech support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity