Global Lead of Financial Risk

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 200,000 businesses worldwide 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world‑leading investors, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

Attributes We Value

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.

About The Team

The Global Risk team at Airwallex plays a critical role in enabling the company’s growth by building a strong, scalable, and globally consistent approach to risk management. The team works across the business to define risk appetite, develop frameworks and policies, support strategic decision‑making, and provide oversight of key risks as Airwallex expands across products, markets, and regulatory environments.

What You’ll Do

You will lead Airwallex’s global second line Financial Risk function, setting the guardrails that allow the business to scale safely across products, markets, and balance sheet activities. This is a senior leadership role for someone who brings deep technical judgment across credit, liquidity, capital, market, and model risk, and who has operated with real authority in a regulated financial institution.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead Airwallex’s global Financial Risk framework across credit, liquidity, capital, market, and model risk.
• Own second line credit risk oversight by defining global underwriting standards, credit limits, and governance.
• Direct the firm’s liquidity, funding, and capital resilience agenda.
• Set and enforce global FX and market risk guardrails.
• Build and institutionalize model governance and independent validation across risk, pricing, forecasting, and automated decisioning models.
• Lead and grow a high‑performing Financial Risk team.

Who You Are

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role.

Minimum Qualifications

• You have 12 to 15+ years of experience in financial risk management within banks, fintechs, payments companies, digital banks, non‑bank lenders, or similarly regulated financial institutions.
• You have deep expertise across several core financial risk disciplines.
• You have strong second line experience designing frameworks, setting limits, challenging first line decisions.
• You have direct experience developing or overseeing capital and liquidity adequacy frameworks.
• You have experience building or scaling model governance standards.
• You have a bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, actuarial science, or another quantitative discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience leading financial risk in a global fintech, payments company, digital bank, or other high‑growth platform business.
• You have experience managing real‑time liquidity, prefunding, cross‑border payment rails.
• You have familiarity with major prudential and model governance expectations.
• You have experience with IFRS 9, expected credit loss methodologies.
• You have an advanced degree in a quantitative discipline, or hold credentials such as CFA or FRM.

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.