Senior Regulatory Counsel, Americas

The role

You will handle regulatory legal issues and provide strategic advice for the Americas region. This includes advising on complex regulatory issues for payments and financial services, supporting licensing, and managing regulatory strategy.

What you will do

• Handle regulatory legal issues and provide strategic advice for the Americas region.
• Monitor and influence trends in payments and financial services regulation in the Americas.
• Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams.
• Support new market entry and expansion of regulatory licences in the Americas.
• Liaise with senior Airwallex stakeholders globally with regulatory legal advice and risk assessments.
• Manage external legal counsel and consultants in the Americas.
• Leverage AI and other tooling to enhance the Regulatory Legal team.
• Provide legal advice on regulatory compliance obligations and regulatory reports and filings.
• Support government relations outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies.

Required qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with 8 years of relevant post-qualification experience.
• Strong regulatory experience in the fintech industry, reputable law firms and/or financial institutions.
• Deep experience advising on regulatory matters and handling regulatory submissions, filings and regulatory strategy in financial services or payments.
• Strong understanding of the financial services regulatory environment in the Americas, particularly payments, remittance, FX, issuing and digital financial services.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive, results-driven, and ownership-oriented with a track record of managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to influence and explain complex legal topics to non-lawyers.
• Collaborative team player who can manage ambiguity in fast-paced environments.

Nice to have

• A mix of private practice and in-house experience.
• Experience supporting expansion into new markets and launching new regulatory licences in fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Experience advising on consumer and commercial regulatory matters, including state money transmitter licensing (MTL) and federal oversight.
• Familiarity with regulations such as Reg E, UDAAP, and TILA.
• Experience using, deploying or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools.
• Canadian payment processing and money services business experience including familiarity with RPAA, Fintrac and provincial financial licensing.

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses globally.