Senior Associate Regulatory Compliance (Fintech)

Location: London office, UK; office-based role

Company

Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform providing business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions to more than 250,000 businesses.

What you will do

• Manage regulatory compliance components of UK licensing and authorization processes, including applications, business plan updates, and regulator information requests.
• Maintain regulatory obligations and reporting for UK entities and coordinate renewals, inspections, audits, and regulatory examinations.
• Advise on regulatory changes, new products, FCA rules, conduct risk, Consumer Duty, complaints governance, ethics, and compliance risk.
• Develop policies, processes, and controls within the first-line business while strengthening second-line oversight and risk escalation.
• Deliver compliance monitoring reviews, employee training, and targeted training for business teams.
• Lead special operations projects that resolve operational or compliance issues and support strategic business goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of regulatory compliance experience for Senior Associate level, or 6 years for Manager level.
• Experience in a financial institution, fintech, legal or consulting firm, preferably involving payments and e-money activities.
• Knowledge of UK financial regulatory laws, FCA-regulated environments, regulatory reporting, licensing, and regulatory expansion.
• Experience developing or maintaining compliance programs and understanding financial products, conduct risk, ethics, and controls.
• Strong data analysis, strategic problem-solving, and communication skills for working with regulators, executives, and front-line teams.

Nice to have

• Experience working with the Financial Conduct Authority and handling escalations to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
• Exposure to RegTech and technology-driven compliance solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative Regulatory & Compliance Division with a focus on transparency, empowerment, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Opportunity to work with legal, compliance, risk, product, and business stakeholders on high-impact regulatory initiatives.
• Exposure to a global financial platform operating across more than 27 offices.
• Equal opportunity workplace with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities or special needs.