Compliance Manager

About the role

2WA OPERATIONS LIMITED is recruiting a Compliance Manager to own the compliance framework for ongoing fund-related and trading operations. The role involves establishing and operating a practical compliance programme suitable for live operations, working closely with the Head of Legal. You will ensure day-to-day activities, trading workflows, and external materials remain within the approved legal and policy perimeter.

Key responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and operate compliance policies, registers, incident handling, and staff training.
• Oversee AML, KYC, and sanctions processes for relevant investors, counterparties, and operational workflows; maintain audit-ready records.
• Implement trading-related controls where orders are placed with licensed institutions, including authority matrices, personal account dealing, conflicts of interest, exception logging, and broker or platform oversight documentation.
• Review fundraising and external communications against approved language and escalation rules.
• Coordinate control interfaces with licensed partners and platforms, including responsibility matrices and evidence packs, without representing that the Company itself holds those licences.
• Prepare compliance management information for leadership and support information requests from partners, auditors, or competent authorities as directed.
• Support licence-readiness workstreams with Legal when required, including gap analysis and evidence organisation.
• Act as the primary day-to-day escalation point for compliance queries.

About you

• Demonstrable compliance experience in funds, asset management, brokerage, banking, virtual assets, or fintech.
• Hands-on delivery of AML and KYC processes and the translation of policy into operating controls.
• Familiarity with markets or trading-related controls, or a clear ability to ramp from adjacent compliance experience.
• Evidence of owning a compliance workstream end to end, not solely supporting a larger team.
• Strong written English; Chinese is an advantage.
• Sound judgement, discretion, and the ability to decline requests with a clear rationale and alternative path.
• Right to work in Hong Kong.
• Preferred: Experience in a regulated entity environment, or supporting a licence application pack.
• Preferred: Exposure to personal account dealing, financial promotions or marketing review, or trade and order exception monitoring.
• Preferred: Prior coordination with external counsel, auditors, or compliance teams at licensed brokers or platforms.
• Preferred: Experience building or scaling a compliance function in a small or growing organisation.

About us

2WA builds the onchain finance layer for Regulated World Assets, enabling regulated assets to be used as stablecoin liquidity, working with licensed partners where required.