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Compliance & Regulatory Manager
Build practical compliance discipline for a global crypto payments business.
This role manages compliance operations, policy coordination, risk controls, and regulatory tracking for MakePay across Dubai, Hong Kong, and related markets. You will help the company move quickly while keeping payment, crypto, and merchant risk work structured.
Why this role matters
- Strengthen MakePay's compliance posture across merchant onboarding, payments, crypto activity, and regional operations.
- Create clearer policies, controls, registers, and review habits for regulated and high-risk areas.
- Give product, sales, support, and leadership practical guidance on compliance-sensitive decisions.
What you will own
- Maintain compliance policies, regulatory trackers, risk assessments, control documentation, and internal review processes.
- Support merchant due diligence, transaction risk workflows, partner reviews, audit preparation, and compliance reporting.
- Coordinate with legal, leadership, product, support, sales, and external advisors on regulatory questions and operating requirements.
What you bring
- Compliance, regulatory, risk, legal operations, or financial crime experience in fintech, payments, crypto, banking, or financial services.
- Strong understanding of practical controls, documentation, stakeholder communication, and risk-based prioritization.
- Ability to translate regulatory and policy requirements into workflows that teams can follow.
Nice to have
- Experience with UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore, EU, or US fintech and crypto regulatory environments.
- Knowledge of AML, sanctions, KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring, merchant risk, or payment gateway compliance.
- Comfort working with external counsel, auditors, regulators, banking partners, or compliance vendors.
First 90 days
- Audit current compliance documentation, risk registers, onboarding controls, and regulatory watch items.
- Prioritize the first policy, workflow, or control improvements needed for merchant growth.
- Create a compliance operating cadence for leadership, product, sales, support, and external advisors.
How we work
Clear ownership, close product feedback, and direct merchant impact.
You will work with leadership, legal advisors, product, support, sales, finance, and regional teams to keep compliance practical and current.