Enterprise Risk Manager

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time intelligent economy. More than 676 000 businesses including McLaren Racing Qantas SHEIN and Tik Tok 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 2 300 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.

The Global Risk team at Airwallex plays a critical role in enabling the company s growth by building a strong scalable and globally consistent approach to risk management. The team works across the business to define risk appetite develop frameworks and policies support strategic decision-making and provide oversight of key risks as Airwallex expands across products markets and regulatory environments. You ll be part of a highly collaborative group that partners closely with Product Engineering Operations Commercial Financial Crime Compliance Regulatory Compliance and Legal teams to help Airwallex grow responsibly and with confidence.

This is a team where you ll tackle complex high-impact challenges shape how risk is managed at a global fintech and help build the foundations for long-term scale.

As Enterprise Risk Manager - UAE you will help establish and evolve Airwallex s enterprise risk management capability in the UAE while contributing to the broader global and regional risk agenda. You Will help ensure that risk management supports responsible growth as Airwallex ope rationalises its UAE entity and expands its regulated payments offering in the region. Airwallex has secured in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE for Stored Value Facilities and Category II Retail Payment Services licences.

These approvals support the planned provision of services including multi-currency accounts global transfers payment acceptance and corporate cards in the UAE.

• Adapt and ope rationalise Airwallex s global enterprise risk architecture for the UAE including risk appetite risk taxonomy governance standards risk limits escalation protocols reporting and decision rights
• Partner with Regulatory Compliance Legal and UAE leadership to ensure risk governance reflects applicable Central Bank of the UAE expectations and requirements relevant to Stored Value Facilities and Retail Payment Services
• Translate risk data incidents issues trends and key risk indicators into clear decision-useful reporting for UAE management regional leadership risk committees and where appropriate the Board or regulators
• Act as a trusted independent second-line advisor providing constructive challenge where initiatives may exceed approved risk appetite regulatory expectations or the maturity of the control environment
• Support risk assessment and approval for new products payment services customer propositions markets partnerships systems changes and material operating-model changes in the UAE
• Continue to develop the UAE crisis management and resilience framework including escalation triggers governance executive response mechanisms business continuity planning and severe-but-plausible scenario exercises
• Contribute to enterprise-wide risk initiatives including improvements to risk reporting dashboards risk tools automation and data quality while sharing UAE insights with the global risk team
• Support consistent risk management standards across Airwallex s regulated entities and help ensure that local practices are aligned with the Group s enterprise risk framework
• Build strong relationships with local and global stakeholders fostering a pragmatic and effective risk culture across the UAE business

We re looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

• Fintech and payments experience including exposure to…