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About the Role
The Global Risk team at Airwallex enables company growth by building a strong, scalable, and globally consistent approach to risk management. This role will shape and scale Airwallex’s enterprise risk management capability across the US and EMEA, translating Board-approved risk appetite into practical decision-making and strengthening governance and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Lead the evolution of Airwallex’s enterprise risk architecture, including risk appetite, taxonomy, governance standards, escalation protocols, and enterprise-wide oversight.
- Translate complex risk data, issues, and trends into clear, decision-useful reporting for the C-suite, Board committees, and external stakeholders.
- Oversee risk-informed change governance for new products, new markets, major systems changes, and structural changes.
- Own and continue to strengthen the enterprise crisis management framework, including escalation triggers, governance, and executive response mechanisms.
- Drive a unified, risk-aware culture across the organisation by championing consistent adoption of enterprise risk standards.
- Build and lead a high-performing global second line team, partnering closely with various departments to support Airwallex’s next phase of scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or another relevant quantitative field.
- 10 to 15+ years of experience in risk management, operational risk, enterprise risk, compliance, controls, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.
- At least 5+ years leading enterprise risk management, operational risk, or governance programmes in a complex, matrixed, multi-jurisdiction organisation.
- Proven experience designing, building, or scaling second line of defense frameworks, including risk appetite statements, risk taxonomies, governance processes, and escalation mechanisms.
- Strong familiarity with the regulatory environment relevant to electronic money institutions and payments firms.
- Demonstrated experience preparing risk papers and communicating effectively with senior executives, Board or committee audiences, regulators, or auditors.
- Experience defining crisis or incident governance frameworks and leading or supporting executive-level response to material operational, regulatory, or business events.
- A high-ownership, pragmatic approach, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and significant cross-functional collaboration.
- Advanced degree such as an MBA, Master’s in Risk Management, or JD.
- Professional certification such as FRM, PRM, CRMA, CAMS, or CFE.
- Deep fintech and payments experience, including exposure to cross-border payments, merchant acquiring, card scheme environments, local payment methods, or multi-entity regulated groups.
- Experience managing risk approvals and governance in a high-velocity product and engineering environment.
- Strong data literacy and comfort using dashboards, metrics, and technology-enabled tools to support risk oversight and reporting.
- A clear bias toward automation, AI, and scalable tooling to improve issue management, reporting, and second line efficiency.
Skills
- Risk Management
- Operational Risk
- Enterprise Risk
- Compliance
- Controls
- Audit
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Payments
- Banking
- Regulatory Environment
- Risk Appetite
- Risk Taxonomy
- Governance Processes
- Escalation Mechanisms
- Crisis Management
- Incident Governance
- Risk-Aware Culture
- Data Literacy
- Automation
- AI
- Scalable Tooling
Location
- US
- EMEA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 10 to 15+ years of experience
- 5+ years leading enterprise risk management
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or another relevant quantitative field
- MBA, Master’s in Risk Management, or JD (Preferred)
About the Company
- Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy.
- More than 675,000 businesses use Airwallex to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products.
- Started in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex has built the infrastructure global commerce runs on.
- Airwallex is the regulated backbone behind global payments, with a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
- Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices.
- Airwallex hires builders with founder-level energy, who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles.
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.