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Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform serving over 250,000 global businesses including Brex, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. The company operates across 27 offices worldwide with 2,300+ employees and is valued at $11 billion, backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, and Sequoia.
The Regulatory & Compliance team operates as a strategically important second-line function under a three lines of defense model. The Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team manages Airwallex's global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) and sanctions frameworks as the company expands into new markets and deepens relationships with regulators and financial institution partners.
In this role, you will translate regulatory expectations and financial crime risks into practical, risk-based policies, controls, and guidance supporting safe and sustainable growth. You will work closely with Product, Commercial, Operations, Risk, Engineering, and regional compliance teams across a global payments business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop, implement, and maintain Airwallex's Global AML/CTF Policy Framework, including global minimum standards across first and second lines of defense, partnering with regional teams on local adaptations
- Develop and advise on risk-based AML/CTF processes and controls covering customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity escalation, and higher-risk customer management
- Monitor global AML/CTF regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices; assess impact and support policy updates
- Provide advisory support for review and investigation of escalated customers, accounts, and transactions involving potential money laundering, terrorist financing, or financial crime concerns
- Partner with Risk Assessment, Product, Data, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance Technology teams to identify emerging risks, evaluate control effectiveness, and translate AML/CTF requirements into effective workflows
- Support regulatory examinations, partner bank inquiries, and audits; prepare governance materials, metrics, and risk indicators
- Maintain central program registers and governance of action items from self-identified issues, internal/external assurance results, and regulatory findings
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in AML/CTF, financial crime compliance, or related risk/regulatory function within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or similarly complex regulated environment
- Demonstrated understanding of AML/CTF laws, regulations, enforcement trends, and industry practices across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience supporting or managing AML program components such as customer risk assessment, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity investigations, or sanctions-related financial crime controls
- Experience working with customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, screening, case-management, or other compliance technology, including alert review, case disposition, or control enhancement processes
- Ability to assess complex customer profiles, commercial transactions, products, and cross-border payment flows and identify practical, risk-based recommendations
- Strong written communication, analytical, project management, and stakeholder management skills, with ability to work independently and collaborate across a global program
Preferred Qualifications:
- CAMS or equivalent globally recognized AML or financial crime compliance credential
- Experience interacting with regulators, auditors, correspondent banks, financial institution partners, or other external stakeholders on AML/CTF matters
- Experience in fintech and payments, including cross-border payments, virtual accounts, multi-currency wallets, or multi-entity regulated groups
- Experience partnering with Product, Data, Engineering, or Operations teams to embed AML/CTF requirements into automated workflows, dashboards, or other technology-enabled compliance tools
