Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence

The posting, as Airwallex wrote it

ABOUT AIRWALLEX

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT

Lead complex, high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across Airwallex’s global financial infrastructure, helping identify and mitigate risks across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX and embedded finance.

• Own end-to-end investigations involving complex payment flows, multi-currency accounts, ownership structures, cross-product risks, KYB/UBO considerations and high-risk corridors.
• Improve the handling of special investigations by overseeing case intake, triage, prioritisation and assignment, and provide investigative analysis, quality assurance and escalation support for SAR/STR matters so regional MLROs can make informed filing decisions.
• Investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters involving fraud, collusion, misuse of access or other conduct with a financial-crime nexus, partnering with Fraud, Information Security, People/HR, Employment Legal and senior management to produce evidence-based findings and risk-based recommendations.
• Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes and alternative payment methods to trace illicit fund movements, identify beneficial owners and uncover hidden counterparty networks.
• Translate investigative findings into improvements for transaction monitoring rules, automated detection models, investigative playbooks, typologies, training and broader financial-crime controls.
• Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal, Risk, Data, Engineering and regional MLROs to address systemic threats, respond to audits and regulatory inquiries, and strengthen investigative standards across the Financial Crime Compliance team.

This is a remote role based in Dallas, Texas.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Essentials

• 8+ years of dedicated experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence or special investigations w

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ons: we're building a risk posture that acts as a competitive moat, grounded in ownership, proactive regulatory partnerships, and frameworks that scale globally while respecting local nuance.

It's a team for strategic operators with sharp judgment, high standards, and the confidence to execute at pace in a high-stakes environment. You'll thrive here if you can balance rigor with progress and influence across functions.

If you want to architect the benchmark for trust and resilience in global finance, your work here will have a massive impact.

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.