Financial Crime Monitoring Deputy Manager

Job Title - Financial Crime Monitoring Deputy Manager

Location: Delhi

Experience: 8+ years

About Tazapay
Tazapay is a cross-border payment service provider offering local collections via various payment methods, virtual accounts, and cards in over 70 markets. Merchants can expand globally without setting up local entities while benefiting from Tazapay's robust compliance framework, reducing transaction costs, improving FX transparency, and increasing authorization rates.

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What's exciting waiting for you?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-growing fintech and contribute to the development of a strong compliance framework from the ground up. As a Financial Crime Monitoring Deputy Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring customer onboarding, due diligence, and AML compliance processes are executed efficiently and in line with regulatory expectations.

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Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Oversight & Program Management

• Lead the India-based Financial Crime Monitoring team, overseeing day-to-day operations related to AML Investigations and Reporting, Sanctions Screening and Escalations, Transaction Monitoring (TM) Alert Reviews for both fiat and crypto flows and manage escalations.
• Ensure consistent, timely, and well-documented resolution of alerts in accordance with internal quality standards and regulatory expectations.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews on case handling and escalations to ensure effectiveness, accuracy, and completeness.
• Work with an internal quality assurance group to implement corrective action plans, and maintain audit readiness.

SOP Governance & Regulatory Alignment

• Collaborate with the MLRO, Legal, and business stakeholders to review, enhance, and operationalize AML/CFT, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), and broader Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with evolving business models, products, and regulatory expectations.
• Lead the drafting, revision, and implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) to support effective operationalization of FCC policies.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant regulatory developments, typologies, and enforcement trends impacting the payments and fintech sector.

Technology & Model Governance

• Lead the development, calibration, testing, and tuning of TM rules and detection models to align with customer profiles, product risk, behavioral indicators, and regulatory typologies.
• Manage UATs and post-deployment reviews to validate functionality, compliance impact, and operational readiness of system enhancements.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to implement and maintain scalable compliance solutions, reducing false positives.

Reporting & Risk Insights

• Prepare dashboards and management information reports highlighting key risk indicators, investigation trends, and operational volumes.
• Present insights to senior leadership to support decision-making, risk appetite discussions, and resource planning.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders during reviews or inquiries related to financial crime matters.

Fluent in English; fluency in another relevant language is a plus. If you are a compliance professional eager to take ownership and drive operational excellence in due diligence and risk management, we invite you to apply

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