Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations (6-month FTC)

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, 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.

The Regulatory & Compliance team helps Airwallex grow responsibly as a global financial platform. Operating within the Strategy & Operations Office of Regulatory & Compliance, we serve as the central strategic engine driving group-wide transformation, regulatory growth, and operational scaling. We work at the intersection of business strategy, regulatory requirements, technology, and execution. It’s a team for structured, highly analytical, and commercially minded problem-solvers who thrive on tackling complex, high-stakes challenges in a fast-moving, hyper-growth environment.

This is a high-visibility, group-wide role within the Regulatory & Compliance Strategy & Operations Office, responsible for shaping and executing Airwallex’s strategic priorities globally. Reporting to the Head of Strategy & Operations (Regulatory & Compliance), you will own and drive critical strategic initiatives—from global market expansion and operating model redesigns to cutting-edge AI and automation initiatives across compliance workflows.

As an ex-strategy consultant, you will bring rigorous problem-solving, structured frameworks, and executive-level stakeholder management to bridge the gap between high-level regulatory strategy and operational execution. You will partner closely with Global Leadership, Product, Engineering, Risk, and Regional Operations to ensure our regulatory infrastructure scales efficiently alongside our business expansion.

Note:

This is a 6-month fixed-term contract role, with the possibility of becoming permanent, subject to business needs.
Candidates must be available to start immediately.

• Strategic Project Leadership: Own and drive end-to-end execution of group-wide strategic projects, including new market expansion strategies, global regulatory licensing roadmaps, and cross-functional operating model redesigns.

• Compliance Transformation & Automation: Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to identify, architect, and deploy AI-driven tools, automation workflows, and scalable tech infrastructure across regulatory and compliance operations.

• Operating Model & Strategy Architecture: Diagnose operational bottlenecks and design modern, scalable 1
  
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  LOD interaction models, governance structures, and global compliance frameworks.

• Executive & Group-Wide Alignment: Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leadership, preparing board-level presentations, strategic business cases,…