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

Reporting directly to the Chief Legal, Compliance and Risk Officer, in this role you will work alongside all Legal, Compliance and Risk (LRC) leadership teams to support and deliver strategic initiatives, track projects and develop and maintain reports to all levels across Airwallex. You will support and run the framework by which we ultimately manage the LRC functions and deliver on its OKRs ensuring that we prioritise effort to create maximum impact for Airwallex.

This role is based in Singapore or Hong Kong

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CLRCO

• Manage the planning and tracking of quarterly and yearly OKRs for the team

• Work cross functionally to ensure key projects are on track

• Drive strategic projects that streamlines divisional and organizational processes

• Take a data driven approach to ensure overall healthiness of the LRC division

• Handle and manage projects and ad hoc incoming requests to promote scalability of the team

• Represent the CLRCO when needed

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role.

Minimum qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience, preferably with a fast-growing tech startup in a similar strategy and project management role or top-tier strategy/management consulting firm

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills essential

• Experience in delivering strategic initiatives

• Self-starter that can identify and prioritise opportunities to focus on

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• Strong leadership experience with demonstrated success in influencing a broad stakeholder group

• Technology, financial services and/or experience in a high growth environment is advantageous

• Legal and/or compliance knowledge and background is an advantage

• Up to date data analysis and reporting, expert in Microsoft Suite, Tableau, other reporting tools

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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.