Manager, FCC Monitoring & Testing, APAC (Fintech)

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; based in Malaysia. The role covers APAC excluding China and Hong Kong.

Company

Airwallex provides a global payments and financial platform for businesses, combining proprietary infrastructure and software for business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.

What you will do

• Develop and continuously evolve the global Financial Crime Compliance monitoring and testing programme.
• Design risk-based testing frameworks for customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting.
• Oversee the APAC monitoring programme and establish KPIs and operating-effectiveness metrics.
• Use data analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts to support continuous, population-level control validation.
• Validate transaction monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models.
• Report testing outcomes and thematic trends to executive leadership, support remediation, and represent the function in regulatory examinations, audits, and banking partner reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related quantitative or analytical discipline.
• CAMS, ICA International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance, or an equivalent professional credential.
• 10+ years of experience in FCC quality assurance, compliance monitoring, internal audit, or a related second- or third-line control function within fintech, payments, or banking.
• Strong knowledge of transaction monitoring, sanctions and PEP screening, customer due diligence, and digital KYC/KYB workflows.
• Mastery of risk-based testing, including scoping, sampling, design and operating-effectiveness assessments, issue writing, and remediation validation.
• Excellent written communication, stakeholder management, and senior-level challenge skills.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in business administration, regulatory compliance, risk management, or a related field.
• CAMS-Audit, CISA, CIA, or another professional assurance certification.
• Experience with cloud-native, API-driven, high-growth global fintech or payments platforms.
• SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated tools for continuous control validation.
• Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams on automated rules and model-driven controls.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global Financial Crime Compliance function operating under a Three Lines of Defence model.
• Collaborate across regions with Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership.
• Work on complex financial crime risks, global fintech controls, and regulatory governance.
• Join a company with more than 2,300 employees across 27 offices.