Senior Manager, Financial Crime Compliance, Suspicious Activity Reporting

The role

This role leads and oversees a team of analysts within the Financial Crime Compliance function. You will conduct independent, risk-based reviews of complex cases covering KYC, name screening, and transaction monitoring.

What you will do

• Oversee, mentor and train a team of FCC L3 analysts
• Review and resolve assigned KYC, enhanced due diligence, name-screening and transaction-monitoring cases
• Assess customer profiles, ownership, control structures, business activities, transaction patterns and counterparties
• Conduct internal and external research and assess information provided by customers or stakeholders
• Reach evidence-based conclusions or recommendations and document rationale
• Identify financial-crime risks and opportunities to improve processes or controls
• Escalate complex cases, potential sanctions matches and suspicious activity concerns
• Apply local and global Financial Crime Compliance policies and procedures
• Maintain complete and accurate case records
• Perform ad-hoc tasks required by the line manager

Required qualifications

• Degree qualified or at least 8 years of working experience in the FCC space
• Proven track record of working in an AML/CTF or fraud investigations role
• Strong analytical and investigative skills
• Understanding of financial-crime risks, typologies and risk-based review practices
• Sound judgement, ownership and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech or start-up experience

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system used by businesses to run financial operations or build financial products. It is a regulated financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.