Transaction Monitoring Lead, EMEA

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US $8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

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As our Transaction Monitoring Lead in EMEA, you will be responsible for our first‑line financial crime operations team. This team leader is expected to drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through TM risk assessment completion, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience across all of Airwallex’s product suite, all while protecting Airwallex from financial and reputational risk.

We expect you to have strong attention to detail and to develop and apply a comprehensive understanding of AML/CTF related functions.

You Are:

• A natural leader, with strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you
• Process‑driven, ensuring we create procedures to build efficient and well‑documented workflows
• A team player who can also work independently
• A master prioritiser with the ability to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task
• You have an investigative and curious nature that allows you to know when to dive deeper to get to the bottom of a problem
• You ask the right questions and make risk‑based decisions

What you will be doing:

• Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to further improve our 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, including deep dives on issues
• Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including both local and remote team members

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience
• AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred
• Process‑oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well‑honed written and verbal communications
• Bank or fintech experience strongly preferred
• Proven track record of managing personal performance against objective targets and using data and analytics to make decisions
• People leadership experience - experience in…