Financial Crime Compliance Director - Retail FX / CFD Platform

Financial Crime Compliance Director — Retail FX / CFD Platform
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Relocation package is available for overseas candidate!)

The role
A fast-growing retail Forex/CFD trading platform is building its financial crime and client risk function from scratch. Full ownership — you design the framework, build the team, own outcomes.

This is not a policy-writing role. If you have hands-on experience detecting suspicious trading patterns, investigating unusual client behaviour, and building surveillance systems on live retail platforms — this is for you!

What you will own
- Transaction monitoring and suspicious activity detection across client accounts
- SAR/STR process — identifying, documenting, escalating
- Abnormal trading investigation — wash trading, multi-account fraud, coordinated fund flows
- IB and agent channel risk — rebate abuse, fake volume, mass account schemes
- Rules engine and alert threshold buildout — manual to systematic
- Team leadership and direct reporting to senior management

What you bring
- >12 years in Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), AML, or transaction monitoring — minimum 3 years at a retail FX/CFD platform
- MT4/MT5 back-office monitoring experience
- Mandarin fluency is key as this role is dealing with Chinese native clients
- Experience building detection frameworks or monitoring systems from scratch

Confidential search — company details shared upon conversation. Candidates from SG, MY, HK, and Greater China welcome.