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 200,000 businesses worldwide â including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more â 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 2,000 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 youâre 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 youâre 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.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zeroâtoâone ideas into real products, and you âget stuff doneâ end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, youâll tackle complex, highâvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, letâs build whatâs next.
Own and oversee global regulatory reporting across all jurisdictions, ensuring accurate, timely, and complete submissions. Lead the regulatory reporting function and automated reporting platform enhancements, maintain strong governance and internal controls, and serve as the primary liaison between Compliance/Legal, Operations, Finance, Risk, Data, Product and Technology to ensure data integrity and readiness for audits. Proactively monitor regulatory change, assess impact, and drive implementation to keep reporting processes and systems compliant and scalable.
Maintain strong working knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements across all global jurisdictions (e.g., US, Europe, APAC), including periodic and ad-hoc obligations.
Track rules, guidance, interpretations, and updates from relevant regulatory bodies and industry standards.
Interpret new and evolving requirements, translate them into actionable reporting changes, and document regulatory positions and assumptions.
Oversee and support automated regulatory reporting workflows to ensure accuracy, timeliness, completeness, and consistent application of reporting logic.
Partner with Technology/Data teams to enhance the regulatory reporting platform, including: requirements definition, prioritization, testing, release planning, and post-release validation, integration with internal data sources (e.g., trading, finance, risk, reference/master data)
Establish, maintain, and continuously improve internal controls and governance, including reconciliations, exception management, approvals, and evidence retention.
Prepare for and support internal/external audits and regulatory examinations, ensuring documentation and control evidence are complete and accessible.
Manage the submission process for periodic and ad-hoc reports to relevant regulatory authorities, ensuring on-time delivery and appropriate sign-offs.
Monitor reporting schedules/calendars and ensure operational readiness (data availability, controls performed, exceptions resolved).
Own issue management for reporting defects, data quality breaks, and submission exceptionsâdriving root-cause analysis, remediation, and preventive controls.
Conduct impact assessments for regulatory changes and lead implementation efforts, including updates to procedures, systems logic, controls, and training.
Lead, coach, and develop the regulatory reporting team; set performance expectations, operating standards, and quality benchmarks.
Create team playbooks, procedures, and training materials to improve consistency and scalability.
Act as a key liaison across Compliance/Legal, Operations, Risk, Finance, Technology, and Product to ensure data integrity and consistent definitions for reporting.
Communicate reporting status, risks, and control issues to senior stakeholders with clear remediation plans.
Proven hands-on experience in regulatory reporting and compliance across major jurisdictions (US, Europe, APAC), including periodic and ad-hoc obligations.
Strong understanding of regulatory reporting concepts, regulatory interpretation, internal controls, and audit/exam expectations.
Experience supporting and governing automated regulatory reporting processes and platforms, including translating requirements into system logic, defining test cases, and performing UAT/release validation.
Demonstrated ability to manage deadlines, multiple priorities, and cross-functional stakeholders in a global/multi-entity environment.
Experience partnering with Technology/Data teams on data integration, data governance, lineage, and reconciliations; strong focus on data quality and root-cause analysis.
Track record supporting regulatory examinations and internal/external audits, including documentation and evidence management and timely issue remediation.
Relevant certifications are a plus (e.g., CPA, CAMS, FRM, PMP or equivalent).
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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 donât 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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