Senior Regulatory Compliance Manager, Mexico

Location: Hybrid role based in Mexico City with required in-office attendance

Company

Airwallex provides an integrated payments and financial platform for global businesses, including business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.

What you will do

• Lead regulatory compliance across licence applications, authorizations, business plans, information requests, and regulator engagement in Mexico.
• Own ongoing regulatory obligations, including reporting, examinations, inspections, risk management, and escalation processes.
• Advise the business on regulatory change, conduct risk, licensing requirements, financial products, ethics, and controls.
• Strengthen policies, controls, customer-facing processes, and back-office processes in partnership with first-line teams.
• Deliver the Compliance Monitoring Program, including thematic reviews and oversight activities.
• Build compliance capability through training and targeted operational or strategic projects.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of regulatory compliance experience in a financial institution, fintech, legal or consulting firm, or a combination of these.
• CNBV certification as Oficial de Cumplimiento for regulatory and PLD-FT matters is required.
• Knowledge of Mexican financial regulatory laws, rules, regulations, and industry practices, with broader familiarity across the Americas.
• Experience developing or maintaining compliance programs, preferably for payments activity, plus exposure to licensing, regulatory expansion, or RegTech solutions.
• Data proficiency, strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and the ability to explain complex topics to regulators, executives, and frontline staff.
• Fluency in Spanish and English is required for written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience working with the CNBV.
• Legal experience or a law degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative Legal, Risk & Compliance function operating as a second line of defence.
• Opportunity to work on high-visibility regulatory and strategic challenges in a global financial platform.
• Culture focused on transparency, empowerment, continuous improvement, ownership, and high performance.
• English-language resume required.