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title: 'Global MLRO at Aspora'
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# Global MLRO at Aspora

- **Company:** Aspora
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aspora/ce97904b-9990-4529-9c14-c56c70fd14e4

## Job description

## About Aspora

People on the move deserve a bank that moves with them. Since 2022, Aspora has been building a borderless financial operating system that makes money as mobile and transparent as its users. Backed by influential venture capitalists like Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Y Combinator & Global Founders Capital. We're a team of 150+ across India, the UK, the UAE, EU and the US, working with extreme ownership, radical candour, and an obsession with customer impact. We celebrate builders who question assumptions, ship fast, and turn regulatory complexity into elegant solutions. If you’re driven to redefine what global banking can be, we’d love to build the future with you.

## About the Role

People build lives across borders, and Aspora moves their money with them, starting with Indians abroad. Every new corridor and product surface carries money laundering risk. This role exists to turn that risk into an advantage: one global AML policy embedded in products and operations, so sound decisions happen by design instead of case-by-case escalation. As Global MLRO, you will lead our global fincrime team's compliance backbone, working closely with our Head of Fincrime, and reporting to our COO. You will decide where the business can move fast and where it must hold the line. You will own the judgement calls that shape how Aspora scales into new markets.

## Who You Are

You’re not someone who sees AML as a function that sits behind the business. You see it as part of how a great financial product gets built. You’ve navigated AML and financial crime across payments, remittance, banking or fintech, ideally across multiple markets. You know the regulations inside out — but more importantly, you know how to turn them into decisions that work in the real world.

- You turn complexity into clarity. You can take a regulatory requirement and turn it into a customer journey, a product control, or a decision framework that teams can actually use.
- You think globally. You’ve shaped AML standards across multiple markets and know how to build consistency without pretending every market works the same way.
- You build, not just maintain. You’ve built strong AML frameworks, automated controls or high-performing teams — or taken on a genuinely difficult financial crime problem and solved it.
- You’ve been tested. You’ve led through a serious incident, regulatory challenge or remediation, made difficult calls under pressure, and stayed accountable until the job was done.
- You have strong judgement. You know when to move fast, when to push back, and when a risk genuinely needs escalation.
- You raise the bar around you. You don’t want every decision to depend on you. You build teams, playbooks and systems that make everyone better at managing risk.
- You have high ownership. You’re self-critical, decisive and comfortable saying “I got that wrong” — then fixing it quickly.

Most importantly, you’re excited by the opportunity to build something that doesn’t exist yet. You want to help define what practical, intelligent global AML looks like — not inherit a rulebook and keep it running.

## What You'll Own

This is a role with a genuinely global mandate. You’ll have the autonomy to shape how Aspora manages financial crime risk as we enter new markets, launch new products and scale rapidly.

- Set the global AML standard. Build one practical approach across markets and products, so good risk decisions happen by design rather than through constant escalation.
- Make risk decisions visible. Create frameworks that make trade-offs clear — what the options are, who owns the decision, and what would trigger a rethink.
- Be the voice of AML with regulators. Own Aspora’s regulatory relationships and lead the business through independent audits and regulatory scrutiny.
- Turn judgement into leverage. Build the playbooks, training and decision frameworks that allow teams to confidently handle the calls that would otherwise land on your desk.
- Stay ahead of the threats. Identify emerging financial crime patterns and evolve our controls before they become problems — protecting customers without adding friction for the sake of it.
- Build the team. Lead, develop and grow a global Fincrime team capable of operating at the pace and scale Aspora is heading towards.
- Shape the business. Partner directly with Product, Engineering, Operations and leadership to make financial crime controls part of the product — not something bolted on afterwards.

This is a chance to take ownership of a function that will directly influence where Aspora can go, how quickly we can get there, and how confidently we can scale.

## Why Aspora

- Define what practical, global AML looks like at a fintech built for the diaspora, from the ground up
- Work directly with our Head of Fincrime, COO and founding team on a problem core to Aspora's ability to grow
- Build the risk frameworks and playbooks other fintechs will benchmark against as we scale into new markets
- Own a global mandate from day one, across every market Aspora operates in
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and ESOPs aligned with Aspora's long-term vision

## About Aspora

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aspora is building a borderless financial operating system for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), enabling cross-border money transfers, savings, bill payments, and investments.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Parth Garg (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Cross-Border Payments, Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2C (Non-Resident Indians / Global Indians living in the US, UK, UAE, and EU)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Building borderless finance for NRIs" — helping global Indians manage money seamlessly while staying connected to the people and places they love.

## Products & Services
- **Cross-Border Money Transfers**: Send money to India at "Google Rates" (live mid-market exchange rates) with zero hidden fees. 256-bit encryption and 24/7 support.
- **Global Savings Accounts**: Save in global currencies with up to 9% interest.
- **Automated EMIs & SIPs**: Automated recurring payments for loans and systematic investment plans.
- **Bill Payments**: Stay on top of bills in India from abroad.
- **Business Banking (in development)**: A "Founding GTM Specialist (Business Banking)" role is open, indicating an upcoming B2B offering.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Over $2 billion securely transferred worldwide; over ₹150 crore saved by users in forex fees.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed on the website or LinkedIn. Funds are held with regulated financial institutions.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **User base**: Trusted by 1 million+ NRIs.
    - **Headcount**: 200 employees (LinkedIn estimate), with a monthly growth rate of +7.0%.
    - **Geographic expansion**: Active in 6 countries (US, UK, UAE, India, and others) with 4 more countries coming this year. Secured a Financial Services license from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) in February 2026.
    - **Active hiring**: 17 active job postings (LinkedIn), with monthly job posting growth of +13.3% and quarterly growth of +88.9%.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pricing Transparency**: Guarantees "Google Rates" (live mid-market exchange rates) with zero hidden fees — a strong differentiator against traditional banks and many fintech competitors.
- **Security-First Approach**: 256-bit encryption, proactive fraud detection, funds held with regulated financial institutions.
- **Niche Focus**: Deeply specialized in the NRI segment, offering a full financial OS (send, pay, invest) rather than just a single transfer service.
- **Scale & Trust**: $2B+ transferred and 1M+ users provides a strong network effect and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic Expansion**: Actively expanding into new countries (4 more planned this year) and securing regulatory licenses (e.g., DFSA in Dubai).
- **Product Expansion**: Moving beyond transfers into savings (up to 9% interest), investments, and business banking.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, product, compliance, and growth roles to support scaling.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Environment**: The company is in a rapid growth phase (200 employees, 7% monthly headcount growth, expanding to new countries). This offers significant career acceleration and ownership opportunities.
- **Mission-Driven**: Work on a product that directly helps the global Indian diaspora — a large, underserved, and emotionally resonant market.
- **Modern Tech Stack**: Uses a sophisticated stack including Python, Java, Spring Boot, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark, Flink, Airflow, Terraform, dbt, and Looker. Strong emphasis on data engineering and platform engineering.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/In-Office model. London HQ, with offices in Bangalore (Bengaluru) and Dubai. BuiltIn indicates a mix of in-office and remote roles.
- **Culture**: Described as building "for the dreamers, the doers, the ones who see the world as their canvas." Focus on transparency, security, and customer obsession.
- **Active Open Roles (as of mid-2026)**: Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Senior Data Platform Engineer, Senior Product Analytics, Head of Growth, Treasury Operations Lead, Group Chief Compliance Officer, Personal Banking Manager, and more.

## Sources
1. [aspora.com](https://www.aspora.com/)
2. [aspora.com/about-us](https://www.aspora.com/about-us)
3. [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/get-aspora)
4. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/aspora)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Aspora)

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