Corporate Secretary, Americas

The role

You will manage company secretarial and corporate governance matters for Airwallex's Americas entities. This includes overseeing board governance, entity lifecycle management, statutory compliance, and equity administration.

What you will do

• Build and own the corporate secretarial function for Airwallex's Americas entities.
• Manage the full company secretarial and corporate governance lifecycle across licensed entities.
• Handle incorporations, restructurings, capital injections, wind-downs, statutory and regulatory filings, and entity records.
• Organize and facilitate board, committee and general meetings end to end.
• Prepare agendas, resolutions, minutes and presentation materials.
• Track follow-ups and action items.
• Partner with various internal departments and external providers to keep governance operations scalable.
• Support Options and RSU administration, shareholder matters and governance improvements.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in company secretarial, corporate governance or related roles within financial services, fintech or another regulated industry.
• Proven track record supporting boards and senior management in a global or regional corporate structure.
• Experience managing multi-jurisdictional entities and complex group structures.
• Strong knowledge of corporate governance frameworks, directors' duties and regulatory compliance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise board materials.
• Ability to work effectively with directors, regulators and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Exceptional attention to detail, sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential board and shareholder matters.

Nice to have

• A professional company secretary qualification, such as ACG, FCG, ICSA, CGI, ACIS or CCS, or qualification as a lawyer.
• Experience in a high-growth fintech, payments or technology company, ideally with exposure to cross-border structures and licensed entities.
• Proficiency with board portal tools such as Diligent and entity management systems.
• Exposure to public-company readiness or pre-IPO governance workstreams.
• Experience supporting ESOP or equity plan administration, share transfers and related corporate actions.
• Familiarity with key Airwallex jurisdictions, including Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and the US.

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. The company provides financial infrastructure for global commerce and is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.