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Staff Data Analyst, Risk Analytics

Airwallex

Airwallex

IT, Data Science
Singapore
Posted on Mar 18, 2025
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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 Product team at Airwallex is a group of passionate builders and problem-solvers who are obsessed with crafting customer-centric solutions that empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We combine technical expertise with a deep understanding of our customers' needs to design and build unified, intuitive, and scalable products. As a team, we thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, constantly iterating and pushing boundaries to deliver exceptional product experiences.

What you’ll do

Airwallex is building a centralised risk platform that will harness advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to enable real-time decisioning across a diverse range of product lines and platforms. The risk product domain is responsible for building the platforms, engines & case management whilst also delivering the risk models so you will be involved in crafting the full end-to-end risk capability.

This role will work on building out Airwallex’s risk product domain focusing on analyzing the compliance impact on transactions as well as delivering a financial crime detection and prevention solution. You will be responsible for conducting risk analysis on transaction level and merchant level, developing risk detection framework, and empowering business.

This role is based in Singapore or Shanghai.

Responsibilities:

  • Team Leadership & Mentorship: Oversee and mentor a small team of data analysts, ensuring high-quality work and fostering continuous improvement.

  • Risk Strategy Roadmap: Develop and enhance risk strategies through defined controls, refined workflows, and proactive alignment with business objectives.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal teams and external vendors to design and implement robust fraud risk solutions.

  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage advanced analytics to identify trends, validate models, and provide actionable insights for risk optimization.

  • Dual Role Execution: Balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on project work to deliver strategic guidance and technical expertise.

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:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.

  • 5+ years of proven risk management experience, including analytics, model implementation, and stakeholder management.

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience extracting and manipulating large datasets using SQL, as well as scripting in Python, Shell, or R.

  • Demonstrated experience in building visualizations and dashboards with tools such as Looker or Tableau.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Risk Domain Experience: 7+ years in risk management with a solid foundation in analytics, model implementation, and stakeholder management.

  • Payment Industry Fraud Experience: 5+ years of specialized fraud analytics and prevention experience within the payments industry, with a focus on Acquiring/Payments scenarios.

  • Leadership or Technical Mentorship Experience: 1+ year of technical or project leadership, guiding teams and providing mentorship in high-stakes environments.

  • Collaboration Experience: Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional, geographically distributed teams and manage by influence.

  • Technical Expertise: Proficiency in big data technologies such as Spark, Airflow, and Git, ensuring robust data pipeline management and analytics execution.

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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.

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