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Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform serving over 250,000 global businesses including Brex, Rippling, Navan, and Qantas. The company operates across 27 offices globally with 2,300+ employees and is valued at $11 billion, backed by leading investors including Sequoia, Visa, and Mastercard.
The Financial Crime Compliance team builds and oversees Airwallex's global financial crime framework across AML/CTF, sanctions, risk assessment, FCC operations, monitoring, testing, and investigations. As Financial Crime Transformation Lead, you will lead a multi-year effort to strengthen this framework as the company scales across products and regions.
Key responsibilities include: leading a global, multi-year FCC transformation across operating model, process, systems, testing, and controls; building and driving the roadmap with clear sequencing across priorities, dependencies, and risks; leveraging AI, automation, and data tools to improve FCC program tracking, reporting, and delivery across complex global workstreams; running disciplined governance across working groups, steering committees, and executive updates; working hands-on with FCC and cross-functional leaders to translate complexity into clear plans and action; and defining success measures while leading smooth transition into business-as-usual operations.
This is a new role with broad scope, positioning you as the central connector across senior leaders and cross-functional teams. You'll shape the target operating model, improve processes and systems, and bring stronger discipline to FCC-wide change.
Minimum qualifications: 10+ years leading large, multi-workstream transformation programs in financial services or fintech; direct experience in financial crime program change across AML/CTF, sanctions, FCC operations, and monitoring/testing; practical experience using AI, automation, and modern tools to improve program planning and execution in complex environments; track record of delivering multiple global or multi-region programs at complex institutions; highly organized and hands-on with strong project management skills (PMP or PRINCE2 preferred); strong executive presence and communication skills.
Preferred: fintech, payments, or digital banking experience in fast-moving global environments; background in consulting, regulatory remediation, or large-scale risk and compliance change; strong proficiency with program tools, dashboards, and executive reporting.
