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

Airwallex's Senior Compliance Manager, Money Laundering Reporting Officer, Mexico is a key member of our global compliance team, responsible for driving and embedding Airwallex’s compliance program. This role partners with internal teams to design, develop, implement and monitor screening and monitoring rules, and supports regulatory obligations for the Mexican market. Reporting to the Regional Director of Financial Crime Compliance for the Americas and EMEA, this role drives the development, launch, and management of key compliance programs.

This role is based in Mexico City.

Responsibilities:

• Own and develop the FCC compliance framework of Airwallex in Mexico building on the Airwallex global compliance framework and that of our recent acquisition, Mexpago

• Manage and set departmental and individual targets for the FCC Team

• Provide day-to-day management and execution of Airwallex’s AML regulatory interactions, examinations, and ad-hoc requests

• Represent Airwallex with critical external stakeholders, including regulators and financial partners

• Responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of an effective tactical, strategic, and updated anti-money laundering program

• Manage the day-to-day BAU tasks including enhanced due diligence (EDD) approvals, name screening alert escalations, and with filing Suspicious Matter Reports as necessary

• Provide advice and support to the Commercial and Operations team on various FCC matters

• Work closely with the Financial Partnership team to deal with any potential enquiries from external parties including banking partners and scheme partners

• Develop and manage a regular monitoring and reporting process to inform senior management, the audit committee and the board as necessary and required

• Design and execute reports to measure success and performance of AML Compliance initiatives, operations, critical metrics, and Key Risk Indicators

• Coordinate with various stakeholders to address issues raised in internal audit reports, self-assessments, compliance reviews, or regulator’s examination of AML policy

• Drive internal controls design and monitoring to support Compliance Operational policy and procedures

Who you are

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

Minimum qualifications:

• A minimum of 8 years financial crimes compliance experience in financial institutions

• Strong understanding and knowledge in payment industry preferred

• Ability to multitask effortlessly and handle challenging priorities under deadlines

• Credible stakeholder engagement and management skills to align with our organizational values and behaviors

• Written and verbal fluency in Spanish and English

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience as MLRO

• Written and verbal fluency in Portuguese and/or Mandarin

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.