Senior Manager, FCC Monitoring (Fintech)

Location: Remote

Salary: $150,000–$180,000 per year, plus equity and bonus.

Company

Airwallex provides integrated payments, business accounts, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions for global businesses.

What you will do

• Assess the effectiveness of the Group Financial Crime Program across governance, risk assessments, monitoring, issue management, regulatory reporting, and regulatory change.
• Build and embed a risk-based monitoring approach covering EWRA, TMP, ECDD, and SMRs.
• Monitor compliance with AML and sanctions obligations across key jurisdictions, identifying gaps, emerging risks, and remediation needs.
• Prepare clear reporting for senior leaders, governance forums, and Board stakeholders on program effectiveness, risk exposure, and remediation progress.
• Partner with FCC, MLRO, Risk, Legal, Product, Operations, and Technology teams to strengthen the program.

Requirements

• 10 years of experience in financial crime compliance, AML, sanctions, or financial crime risk management.
• Experience in a global financial institution, fintech, payments business, or regulatory environment.
• Deep understanding of global AML and sanctions frameworks across the US, UK and EMEA, Australia, New Zealand, and APAC.
• Proven experience building or operating monitoring programs and improving financial crime compliance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, judgment, independence, and attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting Group, Regional, or Country MLRO functions, governance committees, regulatory engagement, and risk oversight.
• Experience in a global fintech, payments business, digital bank, or fast-paced financial services environment.
• Risk and controls experience, including assessment of program design and operating effectiveness.
• Experience preparing executive-level reporting and escalating material issues through governance forums.
• CAMS, ICA, or another recognized financial crime, compliance, or risk qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote working arrangement.
• High-autonomy individual contributor role with significant ownership.
• Collaboration with senior stakeholders across FCC, Risk, Legal, Product, Operations, Technology, and leadership.
• Equity and bonus opportunities.
• Work on a global financial platform serving businesses worldwide.