Manager, FCC Monitoring & Testing, ANZ (Fintech)

Location: Based in Australia, with conditions listed as Sydney or Melbourne

Company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system and regulated global payments infrastructure company serving more than 675,000 businesses across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

What you will do

• Contribute to the global FCC Monitoring & Testing Programme through risk-based testing methodologies and annual independent assurance plans.
• Design testing frameworks for customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting controls.
• Oversee the ANZ monitoring programme, including KPIs and operating-effectiveness metrics.
• Advance continuous, data-enabled assurance using data analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts.
• Independently validate transaction-monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models.
• Report testing outcomes to executives and governance forums, track remediation, and represent the function during 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 certification, ICA International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance, or an equivalent professional credential.
• 6+ years of experience in FCC quality assurance, compliance monitoring, internal audit, or a related second- or third-line control function within fintech, payments, or highly regulated banking.
• Strong knowledge of financial crime controls covering 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.
• High ownership, pragmatic judgment, excellent written communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to challenge senior partners constructively.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree such as an MBA or master’s degree in regulatory compliance, risk management, or a related field.
• CAMS-Audit, CISA, CIA, or another professional assurance or audit certification.
• Fintech and platform experience in cloud-native, API-driven, high-growth global environments with significant cross-border transaction volume.
• Data literacy and experience with SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated tools for continuous control validation and population-based testing.
• Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to validate automated rules, model-driven controls, and rapid deployments in an agile product lifecycle.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within a global FCC team operating under a Three Lines of Defence model.
• Collaboration across regions with Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership.
• Opportunity to shape financial crime risk strategies and compliance foundations as the company expands into new markets.
• Employment communication and applications must use official Airwallex channels; unsolicited recruiter submissions are not accepted.

Hiring process

• Apply only through careers.airwallex.com or Airwallex’s official LinkedIn page.
• Official communication comes from an @airwallex.com email address; no bank details, sensitive identity documents, or payments are requested during recruitment.