Senior Manager, Sanctions Regulatory Analysis

Location: UK - Birmingham; remote workplace

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

• Act as the regional sanctions subject matter expert and second-line escalation point for complex L3 alerts, ambiguous matches, special investigations, and potential block-and-reject decisions.
• Own regional L3 sanctions investigations and decisioning, including reporting, disclosure, recordkeeping, and transactional-permissibility assessments.
• Provide risk-based advice on cross-border payments, indirect exposure, jurisdictional conflicts, products, customer segments, transactions, and geographic expansion.
• Maintain regional sanctions procedures and oversee first-line sanctions controls in alignment with global policy and local requirements.
• Assess sanctions, export-control, geopolitical, and regulatory developments and translate them into scalable control and risk-appetite enhancements.
• Deliver sanctions training and guidance, collaborate with technology and global teams on screening optimization, and lead responses to banking partners and other external stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of relevant sanctions experience, preferably in fintech, payments, or a large financial institution.
• Experience managing L3 sanctions alerts, recommending transaction blocking or freezing, assessing sanctions-related licences and transactional permissibility, and managing reporting.
• Experience assessing sanctions frameworks, designing and scaling sanctions programs, and recommending program enhancements.
• Understanding of in-region sanctions regulations and economic-sanctions best practices; knowledge of US sanctions is strongly preferred.
• Experience operationalizing sanctions controls with technology teams while adhering to global policies, regional procedures, and risk appetite.
• Experience interacting with or supporting engagement with regulators or financial-institution partners on sanctions matters.
• Expert knowledge of EU financial and trade sanctions and UK regulations administered by OFSI and corresponding export-control bodies.
• Strong understanding of the EU/UK Blocking Statute and conflicting regulatory obligations across European jurisdictions and the UK.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role associated with Birmingham, UK.
• Full-time employment within the Regulatory & Compliance / Financial Crime Compliance department.
• Work across global operations, products, technologies, and multiple geographies.
• Equal-opportunity employment with accommodation available for applicants with disabilities or special needs.

Hiring process

• Apply only through careers.airwallex.com or Airwallex’s official LinkedIn page.
• Official communication will come only from an @airwallex.com email address; Airwallex will not request bank details, sensitive identification numbers, or payment.
• Unsolicited resumes from search firms or recruiters are not accepted.