Compliance Manager & MLRO, CN

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

The role:

This role will see you being a vital member of an elite, innovative compliance team operational Airwallex's compliance program. At Airwallex, we see Compliance as a service to our business teams and our customers, and we get excited about innovation and collaboration. Partner with internal teams to design, develop, implement, execute, and monitor screening and monitoring rules detecting and mitigating AML risks. The role supports regulatory obligations and is an opportunity to innovate.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director, Financial Crime Compliance, this role is based in Guangzhou, China and is

responsible for supporting development and management of:

1. Transaction Monitoring and Screening Program

2. KYC and due diligence

3. Communicating applicable risks, costs, progress, and results to all relevant internal and external

partners

4. Analyzing high-volume data to investigate, identify and report trends linked to AML typologies and

compliance to leadership

5. Investigate, identify and develop triggers, rules and algorithms for transaction monitoring

6. Design and execute reports to measure success and performance of initiatives

7. Drive internal controls design and monitoring to support Compliance Operational policy and

procedures

8. Partner with Compliance, Legal, Engineering, Product, Strategy, Government Relations and business partners to align on goals for the company

9. Continually identify, redefine and execute solutions for KYC needs across systems, teams, policies

and processes

10. Designs and execute reports to measure success and performance of AML Compliance initiatives,

program, operations, critical metrics and KRIs

11. Remain up-to-date on regulatory changes and landscape, best practices and cutting-edge developments

12. Address the enquiries raised by the regulators and also submit the required reports

13. Manage the enquiries or review from the external stakeholders including external auditors, banking partners and scheme partners if necessary

Who You Are:

1. A passionate collaborator - with high energy and focus, getting results across multiple projects in a

fast paced, changing environment

2. An exceptional communicator - with strong written and verbal communication skills that allow you to

translate concepts into clear steps and communicate to technical and non-technical partners at all

Levels

3. An effective leader - who demonstrates leadership and relationship building skills and ability to

operate comfortably within a complex cultural, global environment

4. Entrepreneurial - both in spirit and drive

5. Forward-thinking - you are always one step ahead of the game

6. Comfortable with change - you understand what it is like to work in a hyper-growth company and can

flex to navigate the dynamic environment

7. A data and AI person - who is able to make good use of data to identify the risk and AI technology to make the works more efficient

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in licensed Payment Services Provider ("PSP"), FinTech, ecommerce, RegTech, financial services or consulting firms
  

• Bachelor/Master's Degree
  

• Ability to multitask effortlessly and handle challenging priorities under demanding deadlines
  

• Ability to understand larger picture and environment while operating in focused manner
  

• Outstanding time management, presentation, and relationship building skills
  

• Familiarity with laws and regulations in China, in particular the PSP industry
  

• Certification in compliance related area

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. If you are approached by someone claiming to represent Airwallex, please verify with our team.