Account Manager (Wholesale & Trading), SME & Growth

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.

You will own a book of Singapore-based wholesale trading and manufacturing clients importers exporters distributors and B2B manufacturers who move goods and money across borders every week. Founder-led and finance-led businesses with real operational complexity: high-frequency supplier payments across multiple currencies tight cashflow timelines and periodic compliance reviews.

Your job is to grow gross profit on that book defending and expanding FX and Global Accounts volume finding cross-sell beyond the core money-movement products and being the person the client calls when something is stuck. You will negotiate pricing directly with owners who bargain hard and manage the operational friction that comes with this segment without letting it damage the relationship.

Our clients choose us for rate speed and the account manager in that order and the third is what makes the first two stick.

• Own revenue and gross profit for your book primarily Global Treasury (FX conversions Global Accounts fees) and local payout volume.

• Run pricing end to end build the case for a rate defend margin under bargaining and trade concessions for volume term corridors or an additional product rather than giving them away.

• Map each clients trade flow: where they buy and sell who they pay in which currencies on what terms and where cash is trapped. Use that map to find the next product.

• Hold your own in a competitive account. Understand how letters of credit FX forwards and trade financing work where a bank genuinely wins and where a bank product is habit rather than necessity and defend the FX relationship against other providers where price is the only variable.

• Cross-sell beyond FX online payment collections cards and expense management for procurement and logistics spend batch payouts scheduled conversions.

• Own the client through operational and compliance events. When a TM RFI KYC refresh or payment investigation hits you gather facts set expectations drive internal teams to resolution and keep the relationship intact.

• Build real relationships with founders MDs and finance heads many of whom prefer to do business in Mandarin in person over a long horizon.

• Partner with Compliance Financial Operations Product and Support and feed vertical needs back into the roadmap.

• Maintain accurate pipeline account plans and forecasts in Salesforce.

• At least 5 years in account management relationship management commercial banking or B2B sales carrying and hitting a revenue or GP number on an existing book.

• Ability to run commercial negotiations independently holding price under pressure and structuring trade-offs without escalating every request.

• Working knowledge of letters of credit FX forwards and hedging and trade or invoice financing. You will not be selling these; Airwallex does not offer them. You need to understand them well enough to see which parts of a clients flow are genuinely tied to their bank and which are only there by habit and move the second group onto us.

• Comfort with operationally heavy clients. Things go wrong customers get upset and you are the one who absorbs it investigates and comes back with a clear answer.

• Commercial curiosity about how businesses actually work supply chains payment terms margins working capital.

• Strong numeracy. You can read transaction and margin data and form a view on where the money is.

• Business-level fluency in English and Mandarin. A large share of this book is Chinese-speaking founder-led SMEs dealing with China-based counterparties.

• Resilient optimistic and self-directed.

• Direct exposure to FX pricing or treasury products a bank FX desk a cross-border payments provider or a treasury function.

• Trade documentation and mechanics incoterms LCs telegraphic transfers supplier deposits and balance payments freight and duty flows.

• Network in the Singapore trading wholesale or manufacturing community (SMF SCCCI SBF).

• Fintech or high-growth experience; comfortable with Salesforce and data tooling.

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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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