Senior Manager, Financial Crimes Programs (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid, based in New York, United States

Salary: $200,000–$230,000 annually, plus equity and bonus

Company

Airwallex provides unified payments, business accounts, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions for global businesses.

What you will do

• Lead a global, multi-year financial crimes compliance transformation across the operating model, processes, systems, testing, and controls.
• Build and manage a roadmap covering priorities, dependencies, sequencing, and risks.
• Apply AI, automation, and data tools to improve program tracking, reporting, and delivery.
• Run governance across working groups, steering committees, RAID management, and executive updates.
• Coordinate with financial crimes compliance, Product, Operations, Risk, Legal & Compliance, and regional MLRO leaders.
• Define success measures, evidence progress, and transition improvements into business-as-usual operations.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience leading large, multi-workstream transformation programs in financial services or fintech.
• Direct experience with financial crime program change across AML/CTF, sanctions, FCC operations, monitoring, and testing.
• Practical experience using AI, automation, and modern tools for program planning, reporting, and execution.
• Experience delivering multiple global or multi-region programs at more than one complex institution.
• Strong organization, hands-on execution, communication, and executive presence.
• Project management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or digital banking.
• Background in consulting, regulatory remediation, or large-scale risk and compliance change.
• Strong proficiency with program tools, dashboards, and executive reporting.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to shape a global financial crime framework during international growth.
• Founder-like ownership, high-impact work, and accelerated learning.
• Collaboration with cross-functional and regional compliance leaders.
• Equity and bonus offered in addition to base salary.