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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 globally with 2,300+ employees and is valued at $11 billion, backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, and Sequoia.
As Senior Manager of Financial Crime Operations for Greater China and Southeast Asia, you will lead the first-line financial crime operations team responsible for transaction monitoring and sanctions screening. Your primary focus will be driving standards through transaction monitoring risk assessments, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure seamless customer experiences across Airwallex's product suite while protecting the company from financial and reputational risk.
Key responsibilities include:
- Understanding regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to improve investigations and rules
- Analyzing and investigating patterns and trends in transaction data
- Managing SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals
- Acting as escalation point and managing stakeholder relationships
- Conducting investigations on suspicious transactions
- Ensuring adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures
- Taking data-driven approaches to problem-solving
- Handling special projects and ad hoc requests, including deep dives on complex issues
- Leading and inspiring a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including both local and remote team members
You are a natural leader with strong interpersonal skills, process-driven mindset, and ability to work both collaboratively and independently. You excel at prioritization, have an investigative nature, and make risk-based decisions. The role requires strong attention to detail, meticulous documentation, and comprehensive understanding of AML/CTF functions.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant field
- 5+ years of compliance experience in transaction monitoring, financial crime management, AML investigations, or related areas
- AICB, CAMS, or CFE certifications strongly preferred
- Process-oriented with meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
- Fintech experience strongly preferred
- Proven track record managing performance against objective targets using data and analytics
- Prior leadership experience managing analyst teams (preferred)
- Strong analytical skills with SQL proficiency preferred
