Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence (Fintech)

Location: Remote, based in Dallas, Texas, United States

Salary: $128K–$210K annually, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead complex, high-risk AML and financial crime investigations across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX, and embedded finance.
• Own investigations involving complex payment flows, multi-currency accounts, ownership structures, cross-product risks, KYB/UBO issues, and high-risk corridors.
• Oversee special-investigation intake, triage, prioritisation, assignment, quality assurance, escalation support, and SAR/STR analysis for regional MLRO filing decisions.
• Investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters, partnering with Fraud, Information Security, People/HR, Employment Legal, and senior management on evidence-based findings and risk recommendations.
• Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes, and alternative payment methods to trace illicit funds and uncover beneficial owners and counterparty networks.
• Translate findings into transaction-monitoring rules, automated detection models, investigative playbooks, typologies, training, and broader financial-crime controls while partnering with compliance, risk, data, engineering, legal, and regional MLRO teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of dedicated experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence, or special investigations within cross-border payments, global fintech, merchant acquiring, or international corporate and commercial banking.
• Deep knowledge of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, FX, business payment flows, merchant acquiring, and complex corporate entity and beneficial-ownership structures.
• Proven ability to independently conduct and document complex, multi-layered financial crime investigations from initiation through findings, risk recommendations, and support for MLRO-led regulatory reporting.
• Working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions frameworks, including applicable FATF recommendations, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC, MAS, and other local regulatory requirements.
• Strong analytical skills with experience querying, synthesising, and interpreting large transactional and customer datasets.
• Exceptional written communication, including investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting, with the ability to explain complex financial crime risks to non-compliance stakeholders such as Product and Engineering.
• Ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines in a high-growth, rapidly evolving fintech environment.
• Ability to work in compliance-heavy environments, make decisions with incomplete information, connect cross-functional risks, simplify complexity, and communicate directly and respectfully.

Nice to have

• Professional certification such as CAMS, CFE, or an equivalent ICA diploma.
• Experience with SQL, Python, Tableau, or network/link analysis software for data querying and visualisation.
• Experience investigating financial crime risks involving digital assets, crypto rails, or embedded finance/BaaS integrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote work based in Dallas, Texas.
• Work in a global Regulatory & Compliance function supporting a financial platform operating across 30+ markets.
• Culture emphasises ownership, sound judgment, speed without compromising critical controls, direct communication, and respect.
• Compensation includes equity and bonus opportunities.

Hiring process

• Apply only through careers.airwallex.com or Airwallex's official LinkedIn page.
• Official communications come from an @airwallex.com email address; Airwallex will not request bank details, sensitive identity documents, or payment during recruitment.
• Unsolicited resumes from search firms or recruiters are not accepted unless an agreement exists for the specific open position.