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 to identify and mitigate risks in cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX, and embedded finance.

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, 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, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal and regional MLROs.
• Build and maintain investigative playbooks and quality-assurance frameworks.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large datasets of transactional and customer data.
• Exceptional written communication skills for investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting.
• Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment.

Nice to have

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