Airwallex
Regulatory Counsel, Americas
US - Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will support regulatory legal matters across the Americas, focusing on payments and financial services licensing and requirements. You will provide legal advice to business and control-function stakeholders and manage regulatory workstreams.
What you will do
- Support regulatory legal matters relating to Airwallex’s 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 Product, Strategy, Management and Commercial teams on new market entry and license expansion
- Analyze how funds move through different payment structures to identify licensing requirements
- Provide clear, practical legal guidance and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders
- Support the management of external legal counsel and consultants
- Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses in relevant Americas jurisdictions
- Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into practical guidance
- Leverage AI and other tooling to improve the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team
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 the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses globally.