At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team in transaction monitoring and ensure compliance with financial regulations.
- Company: Join Airwallex, a global leader in payments and financial solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, diverse work culture, and opportunities for career growth.
- Other info: Work in a vibrant environment with a focus on innovation and teamwork.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the fintech industry while leading a dynamic team.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in compliance, strong leadership skills, and analytical mindset.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
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 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, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.
As our Transaction Monitoring Lead in EMEA, you will be responsible for our first-line financial crime operations team. This team leader is expected to drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through TM risk assessment completion, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience across all of Airwallex’s product suite, all while protecting Airwallex from financial and reputational risk.
You Are:
- A natural leader, with strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you
- Process-driven, ensuring we create procedures to build efficient and well-documented workflows
- A team player who can also work independently
- A master prioritiser with the ability to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task
- You have an investigative and curious nature that allows you to know when to dive deeper to get to the bottom of a problem
- You ask the right questions and make risk-based decisions
What you will be doing:
- Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to further improve our investigations and rules
- Analyse and investigate patterns and trends
- Manage SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals
- Act as the point of escalation and responsible for stakeholder management
- Conduct investigations on suspicious transactions
- Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures
- Take a data driven approach to problem solving
- Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues
- Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including both local and remote team members
What you will bring:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience
- AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred
- Process-oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well-honed written and verbal communications
- Bank or fintech experience strongly preferred
- Proven track record of managing personal performance against objective targets and using data and analytics to make decisions
- People leadership experience - experience in managing a team of analysts is a plus
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL preferred
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.
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Airwallex is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and inclusive work culture, empowering employees to take on ambitious challenges in the fast-paced fintech landscape. With a strong focus on professional growth, team collaboration, and innovative problem-solving, employees are encouraged to develop their skills while contributing to a global platform that supports over 100,000 businesses. Located in EMEA, this role offers unique opportunities to lead a talented team in a thriving environment backed by world-class investors, ensuring a rewarding career path in financial crime management.
