Head of Onboarding & FinCrime Operations

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 250,000 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US $11 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.

If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next.

Onboarding and Fin Crime Operations is a global team responsible for KYC Operations, Name Screening and Transaction Monitoring at Airwallex globally. This is a first-line-of-defence team and the largest part of the Operations division. You will partner closely with 2

LOD Financial Crime Compliance (including the MLRO teams), Risk Product and Commercial leaders across our key markets.

The team is passionate about operational excellence and delivering an exceptional end-to-end customer experience. The team thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is committed to continuous learning, innovation and growth.

As the Head of Onboarding and Fin Crime Operations, you will lead a global team responsible for defining procedures and delivering operational excellence in new client onboarding and periodic review. You will ensure that Airwallex champions high standards for integrity, judgement and documentation in all aspects of financial crime operations.

• Own the vision, strategy and execution for Onboarding and Fin Crime Operations
• Build, lead and develop high-performing a globally distributed team, managing capacity to reflect business growth
• Own the location and resourcing strategy of the team, solving for 24/7 coverage, quality of customer experience and cost efficiency
• Create a repeatable & scalable operating rhythm, including clear OKRs
• Take a data-driven approach to performance management
• Strike the right balance between risk, customer experience and commercial impact, ensuring timely, high-quality decision making and communications
• Drive continuous improvement in the quality of procedures, playbooks and control frameworks, aligned to Airwallex financial crime and fraud policies defined by 2
  
  LOD and partnering closely with Risk Product and Engineering
• Ensure that Airwallex continues to improve the quality and consistency of documentation
• Lead AI transformation of the Onboarding and Fin Crime Operations teams

This role will be based in either London or Singapore.

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

• Proven experience, including senior leadership in large-scale, multi-jurisdiction operations in a regulated financial-services or payments/fintech business
• Deep knowledge of AML/CTF, sanctions, KYC, transaction monitoring and investigations processes and…