Compliance | Head of Compliance | Singapore

Skip to main content Compliance | Head of Compliance | Singapore Flowdesk Singapore, Singapore Compliance | Head of Compliance | Singapore Flowdesk Singapore, Singapore 3 weeks ago Be among the first 25 applicants See who Flowdesk has hired for this role No longer accepting applications Report this job Direct message the job poster from Flowdesk Thomas AAKRA Thomas AAKRA Head of Talent Acquisition @ Flowdesk | Building the Future of Finance At Flowdesk, we are building the infrastructure powering the next era of global finance. As a full-service digital asset trading and technology firm, we provide liquidity solutions, OTC trading, and market infrastructure that connect digital assets to global markets with institutional-grade precision, transparency, and scale. Flowdesk combines expertise from traditional finance, algorithmic trading, and blockchain technology to deliver always-on trading capabilities across the digital asset ecosystem.Founded in 2020, we are a global team supporting institutions, exchanges, and token issuers to enable a tokenized financial markets ecosystem.Why join Flowdesk? You'll be joining a company operating at the intersection of finance, technology, and crypto; solving complex market problems, building critical infrastructure, and helping shape how digital assets connect to global liquidity. We move fast, think long term, and work with a strong ownership mindset across engineering, trading, product, operations, and business teams.Compliance at Flowdesk sits at the core of how we operate. The Compliance team owns our regulatory obligations across all licensed entities — setting policy, managing regulator relationships, maintaining our licensing requirements, and ensuring controls are embedded across business processes. The team partners closely with Legal and business functions, while retaining independent authority to escalate and enforce standards where required.The incumbent will join the global compliance leadership team, contributing to — and helping shape — our worldwide compliance and anti-financial crime strategy. In the near term, they will work alongside our Legal team and external counsel to advance Singapore regulatory applications, lead regulatory engagement with regulators, and further enhancing our compliance framework. Upon licence receipt, they will have full ownership of Singapore Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime.Key ResponsibilitiesLead and drive the compliance contribution to Singapore regulatory applicationsOwn Singapore Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime space, to include, but not limited to AML Risk Assessments, Travel Rule Compliance, blockchain analytics configurationManage and own local third line requirementsActively manage the regulatory reporting into regulators and SONAROwn the compliance and AML board reporting; Co-chair of local Risk & Compliance CommitteeLead local collaboration with central Internal Control FunctionOwn and be responsible for local policies and proceduresRequirementsMust HaveMinimum ten years of compliance experience, ideally gained within a MAS-authorised financial institution, with at least four years specifically in crypto compliance — preferably from a crypto exchange or token issuer. At least five years in a compliance leadership role that extends beyond financial crime, encompassing board-level...