We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented AML Compliance/Transaction Monitoring Analyst to join our growing team. In this role, you will lead daily transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and card-issuing investigations. You will play a vital role in protecting our ecosystem from financial crime by identifying suspicious typologies, managing risks, and ensuring strict compliance with local regulations and international card scheme rules.
Key Responsibilities
Transaction Monitoring & Screening Operations
- Case Management Execution: Conduct daily transaction monitoring (TM) tasks to analyze, clear, or escalate alerts within the case management system according to predefined TM procedures.
- Sanctions & World-Check Screening: Execute daily transaction screening tasks to timely investigate and escalate potential matches in the World-Check system per global sanction protocols.
- Alert Investigations: Perform comprehensive, holistic reviews for post-monitoring alerts, identifying typical money laundering schemes and unusual transaction typologies.
Card Issuing Compliance & Risk Management
- Initiative Coordination: Coordinate closely with internal teams on card-issuing related compliance initiatives.
- Investigation Management: Actively handle card-issuing investigations in a timely manner to mitigate immediate financial crime risks.
- Incident Escalation: Escalate issuing accidents and anomalies promptly, providing strategic, actionable risk-reduction and solving suggestions.
Project Management & Operational Excellence
- Continuous Improvement: Participate actively in AML-related projects, process optimization initiatives (KYC/CDD updates), and procedure development (such as blacklist/whitelist maintenance).
- Regulatory Tracking: Proactively track AML/Sanctions news, card scheme regulations, and regulatory developments to enhance the team’s collective knowledge base.
- Ad-Hoc Support: Assist the Compliance Operation Manager with ad-hoc operational tasks and the writing or reviewing of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
What You Bring (Requirements)
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Law, Criminology, or a related field.
- Core Experience: 3 to 5 years of dedicated AML and sanctions compliance experience within a FinTech, financial services, litigation, or regulatory environment.
- Industry Knowledge: Deep understanding of anti-money laundering regulations, sanctions compliance framework, and specific regulations mandated by global card schemes.
- Technical Familiarity: Practical experience navigating automated compliance vendor solutions for KYC, transaction monitoring, case management, and sanction compliance.
Preferred Qualifications (A Plus):
- Direct experience with international/regional regulatory frameworks and OFAC risk assessments.
- Proven track record in process improvement initiatives across KYC/CDD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience drafting, writing, or reviewing Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
What We Offer
- Competitive base salary package with performance bonuses.
- Direct exposure to high-impact FinTech compliance projects and executive leadership.
- Comprehensive health benefits, paid time off, and continuous professional development opportunities.
Pay: RM5,000.00 - RM6,500.00 per month
Benefits:
Experience:
- Transaction Monitoring: 3 years (Required)
- AML: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Kuala Lumpur