Global AML Manager

Location: New York, United States

Salary: $120K–$190K annual base pay, plus potential equity and bonus.

Company

Airwallex provides an AI-native financial operating system and regulated global payments infrastructure for businesses and financial product platforms.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, and maintain the global AML/CTF policy framework and global minimum standards.
• Design and advise on risk-based controls for customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, monitoring, sanctions, and higher-risk customers.
• Monitor regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices across multiple jurisdictions.
• Provide guidance on escalated customers, accounts, transactions, and potential financial crime concerns.
• Partner with Product, Data, Engineering, Operations, Risk, and regional compliance teams to embed requirements into onboarding, screening, monitoring, payment, and case-management workflows.
• Support examinations, audits, partner bank inquiries, governance reporting, remediation, training, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in AML/CTF, financial crime compliance, risk, or regulatory functions within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another complex regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of AML/CTF laws, regulations, enforcement trends, and industry practices across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience with customer risk assessment, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity investigations, or sanctions-related controls.
• Experience with onboarding, monitoring, screening, case-management, or compliance technology, including alert review and case disposition.
• Ability to assess complex customer profiles, products, commercial transactions, and cross-border payment flows and provide practical risk-based recommendations.
• Strong written communication, analytical, project management, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• CAMS or an equivalent globally recognized AML or financial crime compliance credential.
• Experience working with regulators, auditors, correspondent banks, or financial institution partners.
• Experience with fintech, cross-border payments, virtual accounts, multi-currency wallets, or multi-entity regulated groups.
• Experience embedding AML/CTF requirements into automated workflows, dashboards, or technology-enabled compliance tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative global Regulatory & Compliance function operating within a three-lines-of-defense model.
• Work across Product, Commercial, Operations, Risk, Engineering, and regional compliance teams.
• US-based employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, disability and life insurance, and well-being benefits.
• US-based employees receive 20 paid vacation days and 12 paid company holidays annually.