Airwallex
Senior Manager Fincrime Ops (Transaction Monitoring), EMEA
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Senior Manager Fincrime Ops (Transaction Monitoring), EMEA
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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.
Attributes We Value
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.
As our Fincrime Ops Senior Manager in EMEA, you will be responsible for our first-line financial crime operations team. This team leader is expected to drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through TM risk assessment completion, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience across all of Airwallex’s product suite, all while protecting Airwallex from financial and reputational risk. We expect you to have strong attention to detail and to develop and apply a comprehensive understanding of AML/CTF related functions.
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You Are
A natural leader, with strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you Process-driven, ensuring we create procedures to build efficient and well-documented workflows A team player who can also work independently A master prioritiser with the ability to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task You have an investigative and curious nature that allows you to know when to dive deeper to get to the bottom of a problem You ask the right questions and make risk-based decisions
What You Will Be Doing
Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to further improve our investigations and rules Analyse and investigate patterns and trends Manage SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals Act as the point of escalation and responsible for stakeholder management Conduct investigations on suspicious transactions Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures Take a data driven approach to problem solving Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including both local and remote team members
What You Will Bring
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred Process-oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well-honed written and verbal communications Fintech experience strongly preferred Proven track record of managing personal performance against objective targets and using data and analytics to make decisions People leadership experience - experience in managing a team of analysts is a plus Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL preferred
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To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.
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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.
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