Manager, FCC Monitoring & Testing, ANZ (Fintech)

Location: Australia, Sydney or Melbourne

Company

Airwallex provides an integrated payments and financial platform for global businesses, including business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.

What you will do

• Develop and continuously improve the global Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Programme, including risk-based methodologies and annual assurance plans.
• Design testing frameworks for customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting controls.
• Oversee the ANZ monitoring programme and establish KPIs and operating-effectiveness metrics.
• Use data analytics, system logs, SQL, Python, BI dashboards, and automated scripts to support continuous, population-based control testing.
• Validate system-encoded controls, including transaction-monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models.
• Report testing outcomes to executive leadership, 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 credential.
• 7+ 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.
• Excellent written communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the 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 or audit certification.
• Experience with cloud-native, API-driven fintech platforms and high-volume cross-border transactions.
• Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to validate automated rules and model-driven controls.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global Financial Crime Compliance team operating under a Three Lines of Defence model.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership across a global fintech platform.
• Address complex financial crime risks and support regulatory and institutional banking-partner requirements.
• Operate in a high-ownership environment focused on practical decision-making, continuous learning, and measurable impact.