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Senior Manager, FCC Monitoring at Airwallex

Senior Manager, FCC Monitoring

Airwallex · NY, US

2 weeks ago

Senior Manager, FCC Monitoring

Airwallex · NY, US

14 days ago
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About the Role

The Financial Crimes Compliance team builds and oversees Airwallex’s global financial crime framework. This role will help build and run the monitoring program that provides independent oversight of Airwallex’s global FCC framework, assessing its effectiveness, identifying gaps and risks, and driving clear actions for the business. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with significant autonomy, working closely with senior stakeholders to ensure program strength.

Responsibilities

  • Assess the ongoing effectiveness of the Group Financial Crime Program across governance, risk assessments, monitoring frameworks, issue management, regulatory reporting, and regulatory change.
  • Build and embed a risk-based monitoring approach across key focus areas, including EWRA, TMP, ECDD, and SMRs.
  • Monitor adherence to AML and sanctions obligations across key jurisdictions, identifying compliance gaps, emerging risks, and areas that need remediation.
  • Deliver clear, useful reporting to senior leaders, governance forums, and Board stakeholders on program effectiveness, risk exposure, and remediation progress.
  • Partner across FCC, MLRO, Risk, Legal, Product, Operations, and Technology teams to drive follow-through and strengthen the program over time.

Requirements

  • 10 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance, AML, sanctions, or financial crime risk management in a global financial institution, fintech, payments business, or regulatory environment.
  • Deep understanding of global AML and sanctions frameworks, including regulatory expectations across the US, UK and EMEA, Australia, New Zealand, and broader APAC.
  • Proven experience building or running a monitoring program and improving the effectiveness of a financial crime compliance framework over time.
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior executives, regulators, and global business leaders on complex financial crime matters.
  • Strong judgment, independence, and attention to detail, with the ability to manage your own workload and operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.
  • Experience working with or supporting Group MLRO, Regional MLRO, or Country MLRO functions, including governance committees, regulatory engagement, and risk oversight.
  • Experience in a global fintech, payments business, digital bank, or other fast-paced financial services environment.
  • Risk and controls experience, with a practical understanding of how to assess program design and operating effectiveness.
  • Experience preparing executive-level reporting and escalating material issues through the right governance forums.
  • CAMS, ICA, or another recognized financial crime, compliance, or risk qualification.

Skills

  • Financial Crime Compliance
  • AML
  • Sanctions
  • Financial crime risk management
  • Global AML and sanctions frameworks
  • Monitoring program development
  • Stakeholder management
  • Influencing skills
  • Risk and controls assessment
  • Executive-level reporting

Location

  • New York
  • San Francisco

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Senior Manager
  • 10 years of experience

Education Level

  • CAMS, ICA, or another recognized financial crime, compliance, or risk qualification

About the Company

  • Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 250,000 businesses worldwide with integrated solutions for business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.
  • Founded in Melbourne, Airwallex has a team of over 2,300 employees across 27 global offices.
  • Valued at US$11 billion and backed by leading investors, Airwallex is building the future of global payments and financial platforms.
  • We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership.
  • We value strong role-related expertise, sharp thinking, and motivation by our mission and operating principles.
  • We encourage moving fast with good judgment, digging deep with curiosity, and making decisions from first principles.
  • We foster a humble and collaborative environment where ideas are turned into products, and tasks are completed end-to-end.
  • We utilize AI to work smarter and solve problems faster, tackling complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates.

Equal Opportunity

  • Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
  • We value diversity and consider anyone seeking employment based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.
  • We do not discriminate based on color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status.
  • We accommodate disabilities or special needs upon request.