Risk Policy Manager - Financial Crimes - GrabFinancial

Get to know the Role:

• Act as financial crime subject matter expert towards the rest of the risk team as well as other company functions such as product, marketing and business development. 

• Define and manage risk policies and processes relating to financial crime such as money laundering, terrorism financing, or fraudulent activity.

• Conduct investigations either individually, as part of the broader risk and compliance teams, or jointly with law enforcement or other government agencies.

• Maintain robust relationships with law enforcement and regulators as Grab’s primary point of contact within the payment risk team.

• Optimise risk controls and processes to monitor high risk transactions and activities while minimising false positives and manual reviews.

• Act as a mentor / subject matter expert to operational risk teams, regularly providing training and feedback on how to conduct efficient and effective investigations.

• Own tools, products and data for the domain. Work closely with product and technology teams to continually improve protection and monitoring capabilities.

• Perform monitoring, investigations, deep dives and forensics, as well as reporting, either stand-alone or in close collaboration with risk analytics / data science groups.

• Report facts to senior and executive management in a clear, concise and data-driven manner.

The must haves:

• Problem-solving, positive and constructive attitude is a must.

• Comfort in dealing with ambiguity and operating in fast-changing, unstructured environments.

• At least 5 years of relevant hands-on experience working within financial services or other heavily regulated environments subject to financial crime pressure.

• Experience working with law enforcement agencies, government agencies and financial regulators in Southeast Asia.

• Strong and proven knowledge of AML/CFT, fraud and abuse, and more generally preventing and investigating financial crime typologies.

• Expertise in operational FCC processes such as Know your Customer (KYC), Standard / Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR).

• Hands-on experience with detection and prevention tools e.g. transaction monitoring, scoring models, and rules engines.

• Structured, factual and data-driven. Ability to deep dive into data then elaborate clear and synthetic insights.

• Prior experience working for (or established network within) law enforcement / regulatory authorities or established network is a plus.