Airwallex
Regulatory Counsel, Americas
US - New York, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will support regulatory matters across the Americas by advising on payments and financial services issues. This includes supporting licensing, registration, and ongoing compliance obligations for products like money transmission and cross-border offerings.
What you will do
- Support regulatory legal matters relating to business across the Americas
- Research and summarize developments in payments and financial services regulation
- Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams
- Support teams on new market entry, license expansion and regulatory mapping
- Analyze how funds move through different payment structures
- Provide practical legal guidance and risk assessments to stakeholders
- Support the management of external legal counsel and consultants
- Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses
- Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into practical guidance
- Leverage AI and other tooling to improve team efficiency
Required qualifications
- Qualified lawyer with 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience
- Regulatory, financial-services or fintech experience gained in-house, in private practice or at a financial institution
- Exposure to payments, money transmission, e-money, FX, remittances, card issuing, digital financial services or another closely related regulatory area
- Working understanding of the US financial-services regulatory environment
- Ability to research complex legal and regulatory questions and translate findings into clear, practical advice
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills
- Proactive, organized and ownership-oriented
- Comfortable working through ambiguity, learning quickly and operating as part of a global team
Nice to have
- Experience supporting state money-transmitter licensing applications, renewals, examinations, regulatory filings or related compliance work
- Experience advising on consumer or commercial financial-services products, including familiarity with Reg E, UDAAP, TILA or similar requirements
- Experience supporting new-market expansion or regulatory analysis for new products and features
- Experience working with US federal or state regulators, directly or through outside counsel
- Experience in a mix of private practice and in-house environments
- Familiarity with Canadian payments or money-services-business regulation, including RPAA, FINTRAC or provincial licensing
- Experience using or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools to improve legal workflows
About the company
Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.