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Job Overview

Lead complex, high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across Airwallex’s global financial infrastructure, helping identify and mitigate risks across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX and embedded finance. Regulatory & Compliance is where we build the trust, discipline, and operational resilience required to scale a generational financial platform.

Key points

  1. You'll lead compliance, enterprise risk, and regulatory engagement in a way that protects the business while letting it move with conviction.

  2. You'll thrive here if you can balance rigor with progress and influence across functions.

  3. Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, and FX; business payment flows; merchant acquiring…

  4. A proven track record of independently conducting and documenting complex, multi-layered financial crime investigations from initiation through documented findings…

  5. Solid working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks, including, where applicable, FATF recommendations, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC…

  6. A strong analytical mindset, with experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large datasets of transactional and customer data.

  7. Exceptional written communication skills, demonstrated through investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting, with the ability to articulate complex financial crime risks to non-compliance stakeholders…

  8. Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment, managing competing priorities under tight deadlines.

Skills

RecruitingSwiftPythonSQLTableauStakeholder ManagementCommunication

Experience: Senior-level · 8+ years · Salary: $128K – $210K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus · Job type: Full-time