Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence

The role

You will lead proactive and complex anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across global financial infrastructure. You will act as an investigative subject-matter expert and operational lead to identify and mitigate risks.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end investigations into complex financial crime typologies.
• Oversee case intake, triage, prioritisation and assignment for special investigations.
• Lead financial-crime-related internal fraud and insider-threat investigations.
• Analyse layered international transactions across payment rails to trace illicit fund movements.
• Provide investigative analysis, suspect and typology recommendations, quality assurance and escalation support for SAR/STR cases.
• Translate investigative findings into actionable feedback for Risk, Data and Engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain financial-crime typologies, investigative intelligence and threat assessment.
• Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal and regional MLROs.
• Build and maintain investigative playbooks, analysis, typology context and case documentation standards.
• Support internal audits, independent reviews and 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 corporate
• Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, and FX; business payment flows; merchant acquiring; and corporate entity structures, including c
• A 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, including FATF recommendations, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC, MAS and other relevant local regulatory requirements.
• A strong analytical mindset, with experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large datasets of transactional and customer data.
• Exceptional written communication skills, demonstrated through investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting.
• Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment, managing competing priorities under tight deadlines.

Nice to have

• A 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 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.