Global AML Manager

Location: San Francisco or New York, United States

Company

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

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 covering customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, monitoring, investigations, and higher-risk customers.
• Monitor regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices across multiple jurisdictions.
• Advise on escalated customers, accounts, transactions, and potential money laundering or terrorist financing concerns.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Data, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance Technology teams to embed requirements into onboarding, screening, monitoring, payment, and case-management workflows.
• Support regulatory examinations, audits, partner bank inquiries, governance reporting, training, remediation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

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.
• 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 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

• Work within a global, collaborative Regulatory & Compliance function.
• Partner with teams across a global payments business and multiple regional compliance organizations.
• Operate within a three lines of defense model focused on safe and sustainable growth.
• Contribute to high-impact financial crime risk management and global banking infrastructure.