Senior Associate, FCC Monitoring & Testing, ANZ (Fintech)

Location: Australia, with locations in Sydney or Melbourne

Company

Airwallex is a fintech company providing AI-native financial infrastructure, global payments, and financial operating systems for businesses.

What you will do

• Develop and continuously improve the global Financial Crime Compliance monitoring and testing programme.
• Design risk-based testing frameworks for onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting.
• Oversee the ANZ monitoring programme and establish KPIs and operating-effectiveness metrics.
• Use data analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts to validate controls across entire data populations.
• Validate transaction monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models.
• Report testing outcomes to executive and governance forums, track root-cause remediation, and represent FCC during regulatory examinations, audits, and banking partner reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, law, information systems, business administration, or a related analytical discipline.
• CAMS, ICA International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance, or an equivalent credential.
• At least 5 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.
• Expertise in risk-based testing, including scoping, sampling, design and operating-effectiveness assessments, issue writing, and remediation validation.
• Strong written communication, stakeholder management, and ability to challenge senior partners constructively.

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 fintech platforms and cross-border transaction volumes.
• Data literacy and experience with SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated control-validation tools.
• 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 using a Three Lines of Defence model.
• Collaborate across regions with Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership.
• Contribute to compliance standards for a regulated financial infrastructure platform operating across global markets.
• Employment with an equal-opportunity employer focused on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent.