Senior Manager, Financial Crime Operations, GC & SEA

The role

You will lead the first-line financial crime operations team. You will drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through risk assessment, rule tuning, and profiling to protect the company from financial and reputational risk.

What you will do

• Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to improve investigations and rules
• Analyse and investigate patterns and trends
• Manage SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals
• Act as the point of escalation and responsible for stakeholder management
• Conduct investigations on suspicious transactions
• Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures
• Take a data driven approach to problem solving
• Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests
• Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including local and remote team members

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in the relevant field
• 5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience
• Process-oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well-honed written and verbal communications
• Proven track record of managing performance against objective targets and using data and analytics to make decisions

Nice to have

• AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred
• Fintech experience strongly preferred
• Prior leadership experience in managing a team of analysts is a plus
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL preferred

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses globally.