Head of Compliance & MLRO (Hong Kong)

Job Description

About Reap Reap is a global financial technology company headquartered in Hong Kong with employees across multiple countries. We enable financial connectivity and access for businesses worldwide by combining traditional finance with stablecoins for efficient money movement. Through our stablecoin-powered corporate cards, payments, and expense management tools, we streamline financial operations and help businesses scale. Our APIs enable businesses to integrate stablecoin-enabled finance into their own products and services—from issuing Visa cards to facilitating cross-border payments. Backed by leading investors including Index Ventures and HashKey Capital, Reap is building the future of borderless, stablecoin-enabled finance. Why Reap? Hong Kong is Reap's home market and the anchor of its regulatory footprint. This role carries statutory accountability for the integrity of Reap's HK AML/CFT programme at a time of significant scale-up, including external audit, scheme remediation and new licensing regimes. The Head of Hong Kong Compliance will keep Reap credible with regulators, auditors and financial partners while enabling the business to grow. As the Head of Compliance and the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) in Hong Kong, you will own Reap's compliance and AML/CFT programme for its Hong Kong entities and act as the appointed Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for Reap Technologies Limited and Reap (Remit) Limited (a licensed Money Service Operator) and Reap Digital Services Limited. This is a senior, jurisdiction-owning role. You will be accountable for regulatory compliance across Hong Kong obligations, including but not limited to AMLO (Cap. 615), DTROP, OSCO, UNATMO and the C&ED MSO licensing regime - while serving as the statutory escalation point for suspicious activity and the primary interface with the JFIU, C&ED and external auditors. The role will also play a central part in Reap's planned application under Hong Kong's forthcoming virtual asset (VA) dealing services licensing regime, and will own the AML/CFT programme for the licensed VA business once approved. You will work closely with the global FCC function, the first-line Financial Crime Operations (FCO) team, Product, Operations and Legal to keep Hong Kong's compliance programme robust, scalable and audit-ready as Reap grows. What You'll Do MLRO Statutory Duties • Act as appointed MLRO for Reap's Hong Kong entities, with direct access to senior management and the board. Show More