Senior Director Regulatory Compliance APAC

Xplor

9h • Remote

About The Position

This role involves leading regulatory compliance across 10 APAC markets for Xplor Technologies, a fast-scaling fintech company. The Senior Director will partner with senior leaders to enable growth, expansion, and innovation, shaping the company's compliance function in the APAC region. The position requires working at the intersection of regulation and commercial strategy, ensuring compliance supports growth. It is a senior leadership role combining strategic oversight with hands-on execution, involving close collaboration with senior leaders, regulators, banks, and internal teams across APAC. The goal is to build a best-in-class compliance function that scales with the business.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in regulatory compliance, risk, or other regulatory roles within payments, fintech, or financial services.
• Significant experience in a senior or head-of-function compliance role, ideally across APAC.
• Deep understanding of APAC regulatory environments relevant to payments, stored value, PayFac models, and financial services.
• Hands-on exposure to payment facilitation, acquiring banks, settlement processes, and global schemes.
• Demonstrated experience managing regulatory licensing obligations and engaging directly with regulators.
• Proven people leadership experience, including managing and developing small, specialist teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to operate at executive and board level.
• The ability to make clear, defensible decisions across markets with differing and evolving regulatory frameworks.

Nice To Haves

• Comfortable in a regulator meeting as well as rolling up sleeves on a licensing application.
• Motivated by building something meaningful.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments.
• Sees compliance as a growth enabler rather than a barrier.
• Big picture thinker who can also execute.
• Brings commercial judgement to regulatory challenges.
• Leads with curiosity across complex multi-market environments.
• Puts relationships at the heart of how they work.
• Practical operator comfortable rolling up sleeves on regulatory reporting, audits, risk registers, and contracts alongside leading a team.
• Builds strong, credible relationships with regulators, banking partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Confident representing compliance at a senior level.
• Thinks commercially, balancing regulatory integrity with business growth objectives and support market launches without becoming a blocker.
• Collaborative leader who works fluidly across Product, Engineering, Legal and business teams rather than operating in isolation.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity making clear, defensible decisions across markets with differing and evolving regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead regulatory compliance across 10 APAC markets, including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea and more.
• Monitor and assess regulatory, legislative, and industry developments across the payments and fintech landscape translating emerging risks and opportunities into clear advice for the business.
• Design and execute licensing strategies across key jurisdictions, securing approvals that unlock new revenue opportunities, and overseeing the maintenance of existing regulatory licenses, registrations and approvals.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Finance, Third Party Relations and Risk teams to embed compliance into business processes, platform design, and go-to-market activities.
• Lead regulatory engagement and maintain strong relationships with regulators, acquiring banks, schemes, financial institutions, and external advisors.
• Provide market expansion support advising on regulatory due diligence as Xplor enters new markets and launches new payment methods.
• Oversee regulatory reporting, audits, examinations, and remediation activities.
• Lead and develop a specialist APAC compliance team, creating a high-performing function that scales with the business.
• Interact with key stakeholders in the USA, UK/EEA and other jurisdictions as well as APAC.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the senior leadership team on compliance and regulatory strategy.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave benefit programs
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed