Manager, EMEA FCC Monitoring & Testing

Location: Based in London or Amsterdam

Company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system and regulated global payments infrastructure company serving businesses across multiple regions.

What you will do

• Contribute to the global Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Programme and develop risk-based testing methodologies and annual assurance plans.
• Design testing frameworks covering customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting.
• Oversee the EMEA monitoring programme, including KPIs and operating-effectiveness metrics.
• Use data analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts to support continuous, population-level control validation.
• Validate system-encoded controls such as transaction-monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models.
• Report testing outcomes and thematic trends to executives, 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.
• At least 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.
• Advanced experience with risk-based testing, including scoping, sampling, design and operating-effectiveness assessments, issue writing, and remediation validation.
• Strong written communication, stakeholder management, and 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 cross-border transaction volumes.
• Data literacy using SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated testing tools.
• Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams on automated rules, model-driven controls, and agile deployments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global FCC function operating under a Three Lines of Defence model.
• Collaborate across regions with Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership.
• Contribute to a data-driven compliance organization supporting global regulatory growth.
• Employment at a regulated financial infrastructure company with more than 85 licenses and offices across multiple regions.