Senior Compliance Manager

Overview

We are seeking a Compliance Officer to support the firm's regulatory framework across multiple jurisdictions. This role will focus on monitoring global regulatory developments, advising internal stakeholders on regulatory requirements, managing regulator communications, and supporting audits and supervisory reviews. The ideal candidate has strong traditional financial services experience, solid capital markets exposure, and hands on regulatory engagement experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Regulatory Compliance Oversight: Ensure full compliance with applicable regulations (e.g. SFC, MAS, AML/CFT frameworks) across all business activities, including trading, custody, and brokerage services.
• Team Leadership & Management: Lead and manage a small compliance team, providing day-to-day guidance, setting priorities, and supporting their professional development. Ensure effective workload allocation and high-quality execution across all compliance functions.
• Policy & Framework Development: Develop, implement, and continuously enhance compliance policies, procedures, and internal controls aligned with evolving digital asset regulations.
• Licensing & Regulatory Engagement: Support licensing applications, regulatory filings, and act as a key point of contact with regulators and external auditors.
• AML / CFT Monitoring: Oversee KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspicious activity reporting processes in line with global standards.
• Advisory to Business: Provide practical compliance guidance to trading, sales, and product teams, ensuring new products and initiatives meet regulatory expectations.
• Regulatory Change Management: Monitor regulatory developments in crypto and financial services, assess impact, and drive implementation of necessary changes.
• Compliance Monitoring & Testing: Conduct regular reviews, compliance testing, and risk assessments to identify gaps and recommend remediation actions.
• Training & Awareness: Deliver compliance training programs to enhance staff awareness of regulatory obligations and internal policies.
• Incident Management: Investigate compliance breaches, escalate issues where necessary, and ensure proper documentation and resolution.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5–10+ years of compliance experience within financial services, ideally with exposure to digital assets, crypto, or fintech environments.
• People Management: Prior experience managing or mentoring a small team, with the ability to lead, develop, and scale junior compliance professionals.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of AML/CFT requirements, securities regulations, and licensing regimes.
• Crypto Exposure: Familiarity with digital asset products (spot, derivatives, custody, staking) and associated regulatory considerations, or payments/fintech areas.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to work closely with front office, risk, legal, and senior management in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical Skills: Strong risk assessment and problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, with experience engaging regulators or auditors preferred.
• Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Business, or related field; professional certifications (e.g. CAMS, ICA) are a plus.
• Adaptability: Comfortable operating in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape with ambiguity and change.

Vision & Mission

• OSL is the first SFC-licensed digital asset platform in Hong Kong and a PayFi innovator. Through stablecoin payments, cross-border settlement and global licensing, we are building the next-generation payments network. Stablecoins have become everyday money across emerging markets and are widely viewed as blockchain's killer app, with industry focus shifting from token issuance to real-world consumer and enterprise payment adoption. The strongest growth lies in cross-border B2B payments, where providers embedding stablecoins into corporate settlement flows can capture significant volume and float. Long-term defensibility comes from regulatory licences, banking partners and cross-border corridors.
• OSL holds or has acquired licences in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Bermuda and Indonesia, and is expanding into Europe, Brazil, Southeast Asia and Africa through acquisitions and licence applications. With OSL Pay and StableX, we embed stablecoin settlement into bank accounts and card networks, support 150+ digital assets, and provide 24/7 fiat–stablecoin conversion. As a regulated pioneer with a startup mindset, we believe the future of payments will be driven by real adoption and scalable deployment, not technology narratives. We welcome builders who are passionate about crypto and payments to join us in shaping compliant, global payment infrastructure.