Compliance Manager & MLRO, HK (Financial Crime)

Location: Quarry Bay office, Hong Kong

Company

Airwallex provides unified payments and financial infrastructure for global businesses, including business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain Hong Kong financial crime compliance policies, standards, and procedures covering KYC/CDD, EDD, name screening, transaction monitoring, and STR reporting.
• Oversee financial crime investigations, including transaction-monitoring alerts, screening hits, internal referrals, external requests, escalations, and reporting decisions.
• Review and approve suspicious transaction reports and improve STR workflows, SLAs, backlog management, and quality assurance.
• Advise Commercial, Product, Strategy, Operations, Data, and Legal teams on high-risk customers, industries, and complex commercial opportunities.
• Enhance transaction-monitoring and name-screening controls and remediate issues from audits, reviews, and internal registers.
• Prepare management information, risk indicators, STR metrics, audit updates, and remediation reporting for leadership, committees, and Boards; support AI-related FCC technology initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• 7+ years of financial crime compliance experience in a financial institution, payment services, or fintech environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Hong Kong AML/CTF laws, rules, and regulatory guidance, including their application to digital payments, cross-border flows, and e-commerce.
• Hands-on experience investigating suspicious transactions, filing STRs, and managing transaction-monitoring and name-screening escalations from alert to closure or reporting.
• Understanding of Hong Kong and China KYC/CDD and STR expectations, with strong stakeholder management, analytical, drafting, and delivery skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, fintech, or banking, particularly with cross-border or digital products, card issuing/acquiring, or embedded finance.
• Compliance or financial crime certification such as CAMS, ICA, ACAMS, AAMLP, or CAMLP.
• Experience in global or regional FCC functions, sanctions, high-risk industry frameworks, acceptable-use policies, or enterprise-wide risk assessments.
• Auditing or assurance experience and interaction with C&ED, the SFC, or the HKMA.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global financial technology company serving more than 250,000 businesses.
• Collaborate with colleagues across 27 offices and multiple business functions and jurisdictions.
• Operate in a high-ownership environment focused on impact, rapid learning, curiosity, sound judgment, and rigorous execution.
• Use technology and AI to improve financial crime compliance operations and controls.