Manager, EMEA FCC Monitoring & Testing

Location: London or Amsterdam

Company

Airwallex is a global fintech platform providing integrated business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions.

What you will do

• Develop and continuously improve the global Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Programme and risk-based annual assurance plans.
• Design testing frameworks for customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting.
• Oversee the EMEA monitoring programme and establish KPIs and operating-effectiveness metrics.
• Use data analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts to enable continuous, population-based control validation.
• Independently validate transaction-monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models.
• Report testing outcomes to executive and governance forums, 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.
• Advanced experience with risk-based testing, including scoping, sampling, design and operating-effectiveness assessments, issue writing, and remediation validation.
• Strong 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.
• Data literacy and experience with SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated testing tools.
• Experience working with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams on automated rules, model-driven controls, and agile deployments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a global FCC organization operating under a Three Lines of Defence model.
• Collaborate across regions with Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership.
• Address complex financial crime risks and support regulatory and banking-partner assurance.
• Contribute to a high-ownership, pragmatic environment focused on impact, learning, and end-to-end execution.