Senior Director Regulatory Compliance APAC

The Opportunity

Lead Compliance Across APAC and Shape the Future of Fintech

You'll lead regulatory compliance across 10 APAC markets, partnering with senior leaders to enable growth, expansion, and innovation in a fast-scaling fintech environment. This is your opportunity to step into a high-impact leadership role where your decisions directly influence how a global business operates and grows.

At Xplor, we're building a best-in-class compliance function in APAC. You'll be stepping into a high-impact function at exactly the right moment to shape how compliance supports that growth. You'll work at the intersection of regulation and commercial strategy, ensuring compliance enables growth rather than slows it down.

This is a senior leadership role combining strategic oversight with hands-on execution, working closely with senior leaders, regulators, banks, and internal teams across APAC.

What You'll be doing

• You will lead regulatory compliance across 10 APAC markets, including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea and more.
• You will 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
• You will 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.
• You will 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.
• You will lead regulatory engagement and maintain strong relationships with regulators, acquiring banks, schemes, financial institutions, and external advisors.
• You will provide market expansion support advising on regulatory due diligence as Xplor enters new markets and launches new payment methods
• You will oversee regulatory reporting, audits, examinations, and remediation activities.
• You will also lead and develop a specialist APAC compliance team, creating a high-performing function that scales with the business, and will interact with key stakeholders in the USA, UK/EEA and other jurisdictions as well as APAC.
• You will act as a trusted advisor to the senior leadership team on compliance and regulatory strategy.

Location: Remote within Australia, with a preference for Sydney-based candidates and full Australian working rights.

What would make me a good candidate?

We are looking for a compliance leader who is as comfortable in a regulator meeting as they are rolling up their sleeves on a licensing application. We love to hear from people who are motivated by building something meaningful, thrive in fast-moving environments, and see compliance as a growth enabler rather than a barrier. We are inspired by meeting big picture thinkers who can also execute people who bring commercial judgement to regulatory challenges, lead with curiosity across complex multi-market environments, and put relationships at the heart of how they work.

Required qualifications for this role:

• 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

The kind of person who succeeds here

• You're a practical operator comfortable rolling up your sleeves on regulatory reporting, audits, risk registers, and contracts alongside leading a team
• You build strong, credible relationships with regulators, banking partners, and internal stakeholders, and you’re confident representing compliance at a senior level.
• You think commercially, balancing regulatory integrity with business growth objectives and support market launches without becoming a blocker
• A collaborative leader - someone who works fluidly across Product, Engineering, Legal and business teams rather than operating in isolation
• You are comfortable navigating ambiguity making clear, defensible decisions across markets with differing and evolving regulatory frameworks.

Values and Life at Xplor

Our four core values guide us from how we hire and recognize our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Make life simple
• Build for people
• Move with purpose
• Create lasting communities.

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

• Paid Parental Leave benefits program
• #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
• Learning resources available to continue to develop your skills and career development
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via talentsupport@xplortechnologies.com.

More about us

We are the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing “everyday life” verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email.

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers.

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

EEO and Artificial Intelligence

We believe in transparent hiring. We use an applicant tracking system that includes artificial intelligence enabled features to assist with the screening and assessment of job applications, such as candidate scoring or ranking. These tools support our recruitment process, but all hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team following human review. We do not rely on artificial intelligence to make final hiring decisions.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.

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At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.

We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely – without hidden fees. We built the tech ourselves, and our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments.

We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products

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