Senior Manager, FCC Monitoring & Testing, APAC

Location: Singapore; APAC scope excluding China and Hong Kong.

Company

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

What you will do

• Develop and continuously evolve 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 controls.
• Oversee APAC monitoring activities and establish KPIs and operating-effectiveness metrics.
• Advance continuous, data-enabled assurance using analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts.
• Validate system-encoded controls, including transaction-monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models.
• Report testing outcomes to executives 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.
• 10+ years of experience in FCC quality assurance, compliance monitoring, internal audit, or a related second- or third-line control function within fintech, payments, or regulated banking.
• Strong knowledge of transaction monitoring, sanctions and PEP screening, customer due diligence, and digital KYC/KYB workflows.
• Mastery of risk-based testing, including scoping, sampling, design and operating-effectiveness assessments, issue writing, and remediation validation.
• Strong written communication, stakeholder management, and constructive challenge skills.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in regulatory compliance, risk management, business administration, or a related field.
• CAMS-Audit, CISA, CIA, or another professional assurance certification.
• Experience with cloud-native, API-driven fintech platforms and cross-border transaction environments.
• Data literacy with SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated control-validation 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 Financial Crime Compliance organization using a Three Lines of Defence model.
• Collaborate across regions with Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership.
• Operate in a high-growth fintech environment addressing complex financial crime risks at scale.
• Contribute to a global compliance framework supporting regulatory and institutional banking-partner requirements.