Product Finance Director

The role

You will own the accounting, reconciliation, and financial governance layer for the core product suite including payments, issuing, and FX. You will lead the reconciliation and financial operations team and partner with Product, Engineering, and Treasury teams.

What you will do

• Drive AI adoption and automation in reconciliation
• Serve as the primary accounting authority for all product-related fund flows
• Own the accounting treatment sign-off process for all new fee types and revenue models
• Lead the reconciliation and financial operations team
• Provide monitoring metric for financial risk committee on AR balances and credit risk exposures
• Lead the design and build-out of a scalable cost engine
• Own the reconciliation and continuous improvement of Financial Reporting and Management Reporting topline figures
• Engage with Product, Engineering, and Legal on new product launches and fund flow redesigns
• Support the operationalization of a new FX Hub and related intercompany structures
• Maintain accountability for ledger data quality

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience
• Meaningful exposure to payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure businesses
• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Strong working knowledge of payment product accounting including clearing, settlement, FX revaluation, intercompany and revenue recognition
• Ability to design accounting frameworks for novel product structures with limited precedent
• Experienced people manager

Nice to have

• Prior product finance, technical accounting, or financial operations leadership experience
• CA/CPA or equivalent professional certification
• Comfort with data concepts, SQL, or scripting

About the company

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