Senior Regulatory Compliance Manager, HK (Fintech)

Location: Hong Kong SAR

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

• Manage regulatory engagement and compliance programs for Airwallex’s Hong Kong payment services, securities and asset management, and money remittance businesses.
• Act as a primary point of contact with the CED, SFC, and HKMA for licence applications, business plan updates, information requests, and regulatory matters.
• Maintain licensing responsibilities, registrations, regulatory reporting, and responses to regulatory requests.
• Advise product and business teams on regulatory change, conduct risk, ethics, controls, and compliance obligations.
• Develop policies and processes, manage regulatory risk within the Risk Management Framework, and deliver compliance monitoring and thematic reviews.
• Provide compliance training and lead special projects that address business and operational issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 6 years of compliance experience in a regulated financial institution, FinTech, legal or consulting firm.
• Knowledge of Hong Kong and wider Asian financial regulations, including the MSO licensing regime, SFO, SFC guidelines, and PSSVFO.
• Experience developing or maintaining compliance programs, preferably for payments activities.
• Experience with licensing processes, regulatory expansion, RegTech, or technology-driven compliance solutions.
• Strong data, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English, Chinese, and Cantonese is required.

Nice to have

• Experience dealing with the HKMA, CED, and SFC in Hong Kong.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global Regulatory & Compliance team operating across law, regulation, risk, and business execution.
• Collaborate with teams across the company to support responsible growth of a regulated financial platform.
• Operate in a fast-moving environment involving complex, high-visibility regulatory challenges.
• Use AI and technology-driven solutions to improve decision-making and compliance operations.