Director – Regulatory Legal

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 100,000 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 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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.

About the team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We’re passionate about safeguarding Airwallex’s operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

What you’ll do

As Director, Regulatory Legal reponsible for the rapidly expanding EMEA region, you will be a valuable member of the global legal and compliance leadership team and will help our rapidly growing EMEA business navigate increasingly complex regulatory landscapes.
You will be supporting our regulatory strategy and advising on complex regulatory issues in the The United Kingdom, Europe and The MIddle-East. You will also be responsible for ensuring we are compliant with our licensing and other regulatory requirements by implementing appropriate measures and controls. This dynamic role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and solving complex issues for our clients, is detail oriented, willing to take on challenges and changes, obsessively curious and intellectually honest, thrives on taking actions and delivering impactful results, and aims to inspire and be inspired.

This role is based in London or Amsterdam.

Responsibilities:

• Advise internal stakeholders on a broad range of regulatory matters throughout the EMEA region

• Find ways to mitigate legal and regulatory risks while progressing business objectives

• Support license maintenance activities including management of regulatory reports, requests for information, and regulatory exams

• Review and update manuals, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with laws and regulations in the regions in which AWX operates while identifying opportunities to create efficiencies 

• Manage and continue to grow the regional Airwallex counsel team across multiple jurisdictions

• Support and devise optimal paths to market to support Airwallex expansion activities

• Support government relations outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies

Who you are

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Qualified lawyer with 10+ years of post-qualification experience

• Strong regulatory experience gained in the fintech industry, reputable law firms or financial institutions

• Sound knowledge of the financial services regulatory environment 

• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to deal with a range of internal and external stakeholders

• Proactive, results-driven, and take ownership of your work

• Ability to multi-task and a team player with strong communication skills

• Strong drafting skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with stakeholders across the globe and on cross-border payments issues

• Experience advising on consumer regulatory matters

• Foreign language knowledge is a plus (French, Dutch and/or Arabic) 

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.