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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.
In this Senior Analyst role based in Kuala Lumpur, you will lead real-time transaction monitoring and screening operations to detect and prevent financial crime. You will conduct transaction monitoring tasks to clear and escalate transactions through the case management system according to pre-defined AML procedures, and perform transaction screening within the Airwallex platform. You'll participate in AML-related projects and initiatives to drive operational excellence and efficiency.
Key responsibilities include understanding AML regulatory requirements and card scheme regulations, staying current with AML news and regulatory developments to build team expertise, coordinating with issuing and acquiring initiatives, handling issuing investigations promptly, performing holistic reviews of post-monitoring alerts, and escalating issuing incidents with recommended solutions. You'll also support other transaction monitoring operations as assigned by the Transaction Monitoring Lead.
This role offers the opportunity to work on complex financial crime prevention at scale, collaborate with exceptional teammates across a global organization, and grow your expertise in a high-impact compliance function.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree with 2–4 years of relevant AML and sanctions experience in fintech, financial services, litigation, or regulatory environment
- Familiarity with typical money laundering schemes, sanctions compliance, general or risk-based compliance, risk management, and financial crime compliance
- Plus: International, regional, and local regulatory knowledge/experience; AML and OFAC risk assessment; policy & procedure development (black/white list maintenance, STR writing/review); alert clearing and investigations; common AML typology analysis; vendor solutions in KYC, transaction monitoring, case management, or sanction compliance
- Strong data analytical skills including advanced Google Sheets/Scripts and SQL (preferred but not required)
