Director, Credit Risk

About Airwallex 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 to see it in full.

About the team

The Credit Risk team is part of Airwallex’s Second Line of Defence and helps the company grow responsibly as a global financial platform.

We work at the intersection of credit, FX, and counter party risk, partnering closely with Product, Sales, Operations, Treasury, Finance, Engineering, Compliance, and Legal to enable commercial growth while protecting Airwallex from financial loss and excessive risk exposure. This is a team for analytical, commercially minded risk leaders who are energized by building scalable frameworks and practical controls across a fast-moving, multi-currency global network.

What you'll doAs Director, Credit Risk, you will lead Airwallex's global second-line oversight of credit, FX, and counter party risk. You will set the risk guardrails that allow the business to grow safely across merchant acquiring, charge cards, FX, treasury, settlement, and banking-partner activities. Reporting to the Senior Director, Financial Risk, you will own the global framework, risk appetite, limits, governance, and portfolio oversight for these risk areas.

You will provide independent challenge to first-line decisions and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across the business.

This role is based in London.

Responsibilities Credit risk framework and risk appetite:
Define, implement, and continuously enhance the global second-line credit risk framework, including policies, risk appetite thresholds, limits, escalation protocols, and governance standards across Airwallex’s products and legal entities.

Credit portfolio oversight:
Oversee credit exposures across merchant acquiring, charge cards, B2B and commercial activities, FX pre-funding, treasury-related exposures, settlement flows, and other relevant products.

Underwriting and limit governance:
Review and challenge first-line underwriting strategies, customer and merchant risk policies, credit assessments, limit-setting methodologies, and exception processes. Act as a senior escalation point for complex or high-value credit decisions.

FX risk oversight:
Establish and monitor appropriate second-line guardrails for FX exposures arising from pre-funding, settlement, customer activity, treasury flows, and other multi-currency activities. Challenge controls, limits, escalation triggers, and risk reporting to ensure exposures remain within approved tolerances.

Counter party risk management:
Set and oversee counter party risk standards for banking partners, payment partners, merchants, customers, and other material counter parties. Establish appropriate exposure limits, concentration thresholds, monitoring requirements, and escalation processes.

Portfolio monitoring and early warning indicators:
Lead proactive monitoring of credit, FX, and counter party portfolios, including…