Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence

The role

You will lead complex, high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across global financial infrastructure. This involves owning end-to-end investigations, improving special investigation handling, and analyzing international transactions to trace illicit fund movements.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end investigations involving complex payment flows, multi-currency accounts, and ownership structures.
• Oversee case intake, triage, prioritisation, and assignment for special investigations.
• Provide investigative analysis, quality assurance, and escalation support for SAR/STR matters.
• Investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters involving collusion or misuse of access.
• Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, and card schemes.
• Translate investigative findings into improvements for transaction monitoring rules and detection models.
• Partner with various departments to address systemic threats and respond to regulatory inquiries.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of dedicated experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence or special investigations within cross-border payments, global fintech, merchant acquiring, or international corporat
• Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, and FX.
• Understanding of business payment flows, merchant acquiring, and corporate entity structures.
• Proven track record of independently conducting and documenting complex, multi-layered financial crime investigations.
• Solid working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large datasets.
• Exceptional written communication skills for investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting.
• Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment.

Nice to have

• Professional certification such as CAMS, CFE or an equivalent ICA diploma.
• Practical experience with data querying and visualisation tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau or network/link analysis software.
• Experience investigating financial crime risks in digital assets or crypto rails, or embedded finance/BaaS integrations.

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. The company provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.