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Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform serving over 250,000 global businesses including Brex, Navan, and Qantas. Valued at $11B and backed by leading investors, the company operates across 27 offices globally with 2,300+ employees.
The Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team operates as the independent second line of defense, owning the global AML/CTF program, sanctions framework, and risk assessment methodology. As Manager of EMEA FCC Monitoring & Testing, you will shape and scale Airwallex's financial crime compliance monitoring and testing framework, establishing a rigorous, data-driven assurance function.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute the Global FCC Monitoring & Testing Programme with robust, risk-based testing methodologies and annual plans
- Design comprehensive testing frameworks validating compliance controls across customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting
- Oversee the EMEA monitoring program, establishing KPIs and operating effectiveness metrics
- Advance transition from sample reviews to continuous, data-enabled assurance using analytics and automated testing
- Validate system-encoded controls including transaction monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and risk-rating models
- Translate testing outcomes into clear reporting for executive leadership and governance forums
- Represent FCC during regulatory examinations, audits, and banking partner reviews
You will collaborate closely with the broader FCC organization, Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership to turn testing insights into operational accountability and a defensible compliance posture. This role covers EMEA and is based in London or Amsterdam, operating as part of a global team driving consistent standards.
Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, Information Systems, or related quantitative discipline; CAMS certification or ICA International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance; 7+ years in FCC quality assurance, compliance monitoring, internal audit, or related second/third-line control functions in fintech, payments, or regulated banking; strong technical knowledge of financial crime controls across transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer due diligence, and digital KYC/KYB workflows.
