Senior Regulatory Compliance Manager, APAC

1 week ago


Sydney, Australia Airwallex Full time

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We’re passionate about safeguarding Airwallex’s operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

What you’ll do

This role will see you being a vital member of an elite, innovative global compliance team operationalising Airwallex’s compliance program. At Airwallex, we see Compliance as a service to our business teams and our customers, and we get excited about innovation and collaboration. In this role you will help us enhancing our presence in Hong Kong in the course of our global expansion by incorporating local regulatory requirements and staying in close contact to the regulator in the course of the application process for necessary licenses. 

This role is based in Hong Kong.

Responsibilities:

  • Application and maintenance for all local licenses

  • Development of processes that are compliant with local laws and regulations

  • KYC and due diligence

  • Basic day to day management tasks of our HK entity

  • Communicating applicable risks, costs, progress, and results to all relevant internal and external partners

  • Investigate, identify and report trends linked to AML typologies and compliance to leadership

  • Design and execute reports to measure success and performance of initiatives

  • Drive internal controls design and monitoring to support Compliance Operational policy and procedures

  • Partner with Compliance, Legal, Engineering, Product, Strategy, and BD to achieve results for team and the Compliance department

  • Continually identify, redefine and execute solutions for KYC needs across systems, teams, policies and processes

  • Designs and execute reports to measure success and performance of AML Compliance initiatives, program, operations, critical metrics and KRIsRemain up-to-date on regulatory changes and landscape, best practices and cutting-edge developments

Who you are

Minimum qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience in FinTech, e-commerce, RegTech, or financial services + Bachelor/Master’s Degree

  • Experience with local financial regulations and Money Service Business Licensing

  • Ability to work and drive projects independently, multitask effortlessly and handle challenging priorities under demanding deadlines

  • Strong proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Excel

  • Ability to understand larger picture and environment while operating in focused manner

  • Outstanding time management, presentation, and relationship building skills

  • Familiarity with AML regulations globally

  • Certification in compliance related area

  • Knowledge in core AML products, money laundering and terrorism typology, segmentation, scenarios, models, methodology, and AML tools

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.



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