Senior Manager, FCC Monitoring

About the role

Airwallex, the AI-native financial operating system used by more than 675,000 businesses, is hiring a Senior Manager, FCC Monitoring. You will build and run the monitoring program that gives independent oversight of the group's financial crime compliance framework, assessing whether it works as intended, finding gaps and emerging risks and turning findings into clear actions. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with significant autonomy, partnering with senior stakeholders across Financial Crime Compliance, Risk, Legal, Product, Operations, Technology and leadership. The role is remote, based in Dallas.

Key responsibilities

• Assess the ongoing effectiveness of the Group Financial Crime Program across governance, risk assessments, monitoring frameworks, issue management, regulatory reporting and regulatory change.
• Build and embed a risk-based monitoring approach across key areas such as EWRA, transaction monitoring, enhanced customer due diligence and suspicious matter reporting.
• Monitor adherence to AML and sanctions obligations across key jurisdictions, identifying compliance gaps, emerging risks and areas needing remediation.
• Deliver clear reporting to senior leaders, governance forums and Board stakeholders on program effectiveness, risk exposure and remediation progress.
• Partner with FCC, MLRO, Risk, Legal, Product, Operations and Technology teams to drive follow-through and strengthen the program.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance, AML, sanctions or financial crime risk management within a global financial institution, fintech, payments business or regulatory environment.
• Deep understanding of global AML and sanctions frameworks, including regulatory expectations across the US, UK and EMEA, Australia, New Zealand and APAC.
• Proven experience building or running a monitoring program and improving a financial crime compliance framework.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with senior executives, regulators and global business leaders.
• Preferred: experience supporting Group, Regional or Country MLRO functions; experience in a global fintech, payments or digital bank environment; CAMS, ICA or another recognised financial crime, compliance or risk qualification.