Senior Accountant, Americas

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time intelligent economy. More than 676000 businesses including McLaren Racing Qantas SHEIN and TikTok use us directly or through our platform partners to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. Were the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident but by design. A decade plus 85 licenses and a financial infrastructure spanning North America Europe the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Were co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with more than 2300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy people who move fast with good judgment dig in with real curiosity and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

The Finance & Corporate Development team at Airwallex drives the companys financial strategy and growth. Our team focuses on financial planning analysis and corporate transactions to ensure Airwallexs long-term success. We collaborate across departments to identify opportunities manage risks and execute strategic initiatives. Our goal is to support the companys mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere anytime.

This role will be a key member of the Airwallex Americas regional team. As the Senior Accountant Americas you will own end-to-end financial controllership activities for Airwallexs AMER entities while supporting group-wide reporting audit and strategic initiatives. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting maintaining strong governance and compliance standards and partnering closely with cross-functional teams such as Product Revenue Operations Regulatory Compliance and FP&A.

This role offers broad exposure to controllership fintech regulatory requirements new product enablement and global group reportingideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced global environment and is excited to build and scale the finance function of a hyper-growth fintech.

This role is based in San Francisco.

• Use company provided AI tools to drive controllership improvement initiatives across the Americasincluding process standardization automation documentation and operational efficiency projects.

• Review and prepare monthly financial closing activities for AMER entities working in close collaboration with our finance shared service center

• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP local regulatory requirements and internal accounting policies.

• Manage periodic statutory financial audits regulatory fillings and manage relationship with external auditors and third parties.

• Support global group reporting processes including quarterly close consolidation reviews and coordination with global Controllership and Group Finance teams.

• Partner with Product Engineering and Business teams to provide accounting advisory for new product launches commercial structures and changes in operational workflows.

• Prepare technical accounting memos and support advisory topics (e.g. revenue recognition equity compensation M&A transactions financial instruments).

• Support compliance reporting obligations to relevant U.S. regulatory bodies and industry partners.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders such as Tax Treasury Legal Risk and Operations on regional or group-wide projects.

• Responsibilities of the role may evolve over time as the U.S. business scales.

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

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or related field.

• 5 years of finance or accounting experience.

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP technical accounting acumen and ability to apply standards in a rapidly evolving fintech environment.

• Experience working in financial services fintech payments or regulated industries.

• Proven experience in financial controlling roles with a track record of improving processes and scaling financial operations.

• Strong understanding of internal controls compliance requirements and reporting frameworks applicable to U.S. financial entities.

• Experience supporting complex local or international projects including systems implementations or operating model transitions.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner effectively across departments and seniority levels.

• Ability to operate independently demonstrate sound judgment and navigate ambiguity in a hyper-growth environment.

• Creative proactive and solutions-oriented approach with the ability to balance detail orientation and operational efficiency.

• Big Four experience strongly preferred.

• CPA or equivalent qualification preferred.

• Experience working within Oracle ERP Pigment FP&A Looker dashboards and similar modern finance stack strongly preferred.

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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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