Senior Manager, Regulatory Compliance, New Zealand

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 200000 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 2000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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.

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 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.

About the team

The Legal Risk & Compliance (LRC) team is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. Were passionate about safeguarding Airwallexs operations fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business proactively identifying mitigating and managing legal compliance and financial risks.

The Global Regulatory Compliance Team forms part of the second line of defence (2LOD) at Airwallex whilst operating within the larger LRC function. We are a proactive and trusted business partner committed to enabling Airwallexs growth and strategic goals by providing an advisory and oversight role. Our team culture is collaborative impact-driven with a focus on continuous improvement. Youll be part of a team that values transparency empowerment and high performance.

This role is a newly created senior role with a specific focus on our New Zealand business. You will be a key member of the Global Regulatory Compliance Team based in Auckland with a direct reporting line to the Director Regulatory Compliance ANZ (based in Sydney).

What youll do

As Senior Manager Regulatory Compliance New Zealand you will deliver on the regulatory engagement strategy and maintain our licensing responsibilities for our regulated financial services entity in New Zealand. You will coordinate with all internal and external parties to ensure compliance through the communication of regulatory requirements cross-functional collaboration to productize solutions and offerings implementation and execution of processes and interfacing with our regulators. You will also help to continue to build our global regulatory compliance program based on the 3 lines of defence principle. You will analyse new and existing products and provide guidance to ensure that our 2LOD second line of defence controls are fit for purpose and comply with regulatory obligations and guide the first line business to enable the maturity of both customer-facing and internal back-office processes and product features.

Responsibilities:

• Direct point of contact with the FMA in New Zealand

• Deliver the regulatory engagement strategy in the region

• Support the Airwallex Groups expansion by managing the regulatory compliance components of any licence authorisation processes

• Act as a key stakeholder in relation to licence applications business plan updates and information requests between Airwallex and our regulators

• Ensure that our regulatory compliance and any risk / breach reporting obligations are maintained for all Airwallex Group entities in the region

• Support and / or manage on-site exams and inspections (in collaboration with other LRC colleagues)

• Advise the business with respect to regulatory change initiatives with a particular focus on how to effectively manage compliance risk attached to new laws and regulations in the jurisdictions we operate

• Develop policies processes and provide advice in relation to regulatory risk obligations that exist within the 1st line business

• Manage regulatory compliance risk within the Airwallex Enterprise Risk Management Framework and associated escalation process (inc. the Group Risk Committee)

• Advise the business in relation to conduct risk and ethics matters (where appropriate) relating to our financial services licences

• Deliver the Compliance Monitoring Program; Conduct targeted and thematic reviews on a wide range of topics to ensure appropriate organisational maturity

• Deliver the Airwallex Groups Compliance Training for employees and conduct ad-hoc training to specific business areas as required

• Conduct Proactive Special Ops projects to unlock business or operational issues to enable Airwallex to achieve its strategic goals more rapidly

What Youll Bring

• Bachelors / Masters degree in law from a recognised university or analogous Compliance qualifications / experience;

• At least 10 years experience in regulatory compliance in a regulated financial institution FinTech legal / consulting firm or combination of the above;

• Familiarity with financial regulatory laws rules regulations and industry best practices across the ANZ region with a specific focus on New Zealand;

• Experience in dealing with Regulators including the FMA DIA and other financial services regulators across the region;

• Data proficiency - ability to work with data and leverage it for strategic decision-making;

• Outstanding time management presentation and relationship-building skills coupled with the ability to understand the larger picture while operating in a focused manner;

• Ability to operate strategically and think creatively to solve complex regulatory compliance challenges;

• Experience with developing and/or maintaining a compliance program within a financial institution preferably in respect of payments activity;

• Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment by multitasking effortlessly and managing competing priorities under demanding deadlines;

• Exposure to licensing processes regulatory expansion and RegTech or technology-driven compliance solutions; and

• Deep understanding of financial products/services and related conduct risk ethics and controls.

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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 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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Senior Manager