Manager, Strategy & Operations, Regulatory & Compliance

The role

You will own and drive high-priority strategic initiatives across Regulatory and Compliance. This includes market expansion, licensing roadmaps, operating model redesign, and compliance transformation.

What you will do

• Own strategic initiatives across market expansion, regulatory licensing, operating model redesign and compliance transformation.
• Drive scalable frameworks and execution plans that translate regulatory strategy into operational outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Legal, Finance and Operations to identify opportunities for AI, automation and technology-enabled process improvement.
• Build business cases and support implementation of transformation initiatives, tracking performance, operational efficiency and return on investment.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of total professional experience, including at least 4 years at a top-tier strategy consulting firm.
• Experience delivering strategic projects within financial services, global payments, fintech or technology platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguous questions into clear hypotheses, analytical frameworks and operational roadmaps.
• Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities, with a track record of translating complex data into actionable executive insights.
• Excellent communication, storytelling and executive presence, with experience influencing senior stakeholders and matrixed global teams.
• A founder’s mentality: you’re equally comfortable debating high-level strategy with the C-suite and rolling up your sleeves to build a new process from scratch.

Nice to have

• An advanced degree, such as an MBA or Master’s in Finance, Economics or Business.
• Deep familiarity with global payments infrastructure, cross-border flows, digital wallets or multi-jurisdictional licensing regimes.
• Hands-on experience leading digital transformation, process automation or AI implementation within financial operations or compliance.

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 across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.