Associate Director, Global Financial Crime Program and Standards

At Airwallex (airwallex.com), we’re building the future of global finance on one platform. Founded in 2015 in Melbourne, Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses to grow beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all on one single platform.

If you’re excited to do the most ambitious work of your career and change the way money moves around the world - join us!

The Associate Director of Global Financial Crime Program and Standards will have responsibility for ensuring the effective delivery, and monitoring, of our consumer business which is still in development. Reporting directly to the VP, FCC, this is a great opportunity to work at a fast paced, pre IPO fintech.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Setting global standards and maintaining policies

• Tracking issues to ensure they are resolved in a timely fashion

• Working across Financial Crimes Compliance to identify and prioritise projects, tooling and control enhancements

• Overseeing the enterprise-wide risk assessment

• Developing the training plan and ensuring its implementation

• Undertaking quality assurance

• Chairing the Financial Crimes Compliance Forum

• Managing metrics and reporting

• Overseeing the Global Financial Intelligence Unit

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of Risk or Compliance experience in banking, consulting, or fintech

• Experience with bank partners, audits, or regulatory exams 

• Ability to set priorities and achieve stakeholder buy in and delivery

• Ability to develop and report on Key Risk Indicators and Key Performance Indicators

• Ability to look across the organization to spot and identify pain points and develop plans to resolve them

• Experience drafting reports for senior management on the risks facing the organization

• Strong communication and presentation skills; ability to communicate and help non-experts understand applicable requirements

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment by multitasking effortlessly and managing competing priorities under demanding deadlines

• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, manage projects and drive results

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organize regular team-building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

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.