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Airwallex

Runs global payments and accounts for businesses

Senior Compliance Manager & MLRO

Financial Crime & AMLConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum of 8 years of financial crimes compliance experience in a financial institution.
  • Ability to multitask and handle challenging priorities under deadlines.
  • Credible stakeholder engagement and management skills to align with organizational values and behaviors.
  • Written and verbal fluency in both Japanese and English.

Responsibilities

  • Own and develop Airwallex's financial crime compliance framework in Japan, building on the global compliance framework.
  • Manage and set departmental and individual targets for the financial crime compliance team.
  • Manage day-to-day anti-money laundering regulatory interactions, examinations, and ad hoc requests.
  • Represent Airwallex with external stakeholders, including regulators and financial partners.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain an effective, current anti-money laundering program.
  • Manage day-to-day tasks including enhanced due diligence approvals, name-screening alert escalations, and filing Suspicious Matter Reports as necessary.
  • Provide advice and support to the Commercial and Operations teams on compliance matters.
  • Work with the Financial Partnership team to address enquiries from external parties, including banking and scheme partners.
  • Develop and manage regular monitoring and reporting processes for senior management, the audit committee, and the board as required.
  • Design and execute reports to measure the success and performance of anti-money laundering compliance initiatives, operations, critical metrics, and key risk indicators.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders to address issues raised in internal audit reports, self-assessments, compliance reviews, and regulatory examinations.
  • Drive the design and monitoring of internal controls supporting compliance operational policies and procedures.

Desired Qualifications

  • Understanding of and knowledge about the payments industry.
  • Experience as a Money Laundering Reporting Officer or Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer.
  • Experience interacting with regulators.
  • Auditing background.

About the Company

Airwallex

Runs global payments and accounts for businesses

Airwallex runs a financial platform for businesses that sell, buy and operate across borders, from startups to large enterprises. Its multi-currency accounts let customers receive and hold money locally, then pay overseas suppliers without converting every sale into their home currency. Businesses also use its corporate cards and expense controls to manage spending, while online sellers accept customer payments through its checkout tools. Finance teams work in a web app, and developers embed the services in other software; Airwallex earns transaction fees and charges for paid software plans. Founded in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex has dual headquarters in Singapore and San Francisco.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Series H
Total funding
$1.7B
Headquarters
Singapore, Singapore
Founded
2015

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