Compliance Manager & MLRO, HK

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 250000 businesses worldwide including Brex 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 2300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

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 youre 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.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

What youll do
As Compliance Manager & MLRO Financial Crime (AML/CTF) you will be a senior member of the Hong Kong Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team and a key secondline advisor for Airwallex HKs business. You will ensure broader financial crime compliance programs are in line with Hong Kong regulation and Airwallexs global standards with a particular focus on policies and procedures STR reporting and continuous improvement of FCC processes.

You will partner crossfunctionally with Product Commercial Operations Data Legal and global FCC colleagues on highrisk cases and strategic commercial opportunities ensuring our controls effectively prevent detect and report financial crime while enabling sustainable growth. This role is based in our Quarry Bay office in Hong Kong.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Hong Kong FCC policies standards and detailed procedures (e.g. KYC/OCDD EDD namescreening transaction monitoring STR reporting) and drive ongoing uplift of the local AML/CTF Program in line with the AMLO AML Guideline and groupwide standards.

• Provide senior oversight of financial crime investigations arising from transaction monitoring alerts namescreening hits internal referrals and external requests ensuring robust documentation clear rationales and appropriate escalation decisions.

• Review and where required approve and submit Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and lead ongoing uplift of STR processes including SLAs workflow design backlog management and quality assurance.

• Lead or support crossdivision work on highrisk customers industries and complex commercial deals providing clear riskbased FCC advice to Commercial Product Strategy Operations and Legal and helping structure controls that satisfy regulatory and bankingpartner expectations.

• Partner with Product Data and Operations to enhance Hong Kong transactionmonitoring and namescreening controls (rule design typology coverage escalation pathways) and to remediate issues identified through internal audit independent reviews external audits and internal issue registers.

• Contribute to Hong Kong FCC governance and reporting by preparing highquality MI and commentary for local leadership risk/audit committees and Boards including key risk indicators STR metrics audit and review outcomes and the status of remediation and control uplift initiatives.

• Support technology initiatives including the use of Artificial Intelligence to shape operational and functional execution of FCC framework.

Who you are
Were looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Law Finance Business or a related field.

• 7 years of financial crime compliance experience in a financial institution or payment services / fintech environment with direct exposure to AML/CTF program execution.

• Indepth familiarity with Hong Kong AML/CTF laws rules and regulatory guidance and how they apply to digital payments crossborder flows and ecommerce usecases.

• Handson experience with suspicious transaction investigation and STR filling or other crossborder reporting and managing transactionmonitoring and namescreening escalations endtoend from alert to closure or reporting.

• Working understanding of Hong Kong and China specific KYC/CDD and STR regulatory expectations.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to credibly engage and challenge senior internal stakeholders and external partners (e.g. banks schemes regulators) while rolemodelling Airwallex values and behaviours.

• Strong understanding of the policy implementation cycle within a fintech including the use of intelligent solutions.

• Proven ability to manage multiple deliverables and deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.

• High attention to detail with experience performing meticulous analysis and drafting clear accurate risk assessment.

• Auditing or assurance background and prior experience interacting with regulators ideally including C&ED the SFC and the HKMA (e.g. in the context of reviews audits information requests or inspections) is a plus.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in the payments fintech or banking sectors ideally supporting crossborder or digital products card issuing/acquiring or embedded finance propositions.

• Recognised professional certification in a compliance or financial crime discipline (e.g. CAMS ICA ACAMS AAMLP/CAMLP training or equivalent).

• Experience operating within a global or regional FCC function partnering across multiple jurisdictions and time zones and contributing to enterprisewide risk assessments or global program standards.

• Prior exposure to sanctions highrisk industry and acceptableuse frameworks including applying these requirements in product design onboarding and transactionmonitoring contexts.

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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 dont 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.

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Manager