EMEA Regulatory Strategy & Operations Lead

Airwallex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Senior Manager, Regulatory Strategy & Operations, EMEA. You will turn regulatory priorities into coordinated delivery across the EMEA business, working with Regulatory Operations, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Financial Crime, Product, Engineering, Finance and Operations.

You will build governance, ownership, and execution discipline to enable growth. You will coordinate regulatory programmes, examinations and audits, and report progress with dashboards and decision-ready

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex regulatory or transformation programmes.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives in international organisations.
• Strong planning, governance, risk and delivery-tracking skills.
• Ability to turn strategy into executable delivery plans.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Excellent written and oral communication for executive materials.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end delivery of strategic regulatory programmes across EMEA.
• Translate priorities into plans with milestones, owners and outcomes.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across Regulatory Ops, Compliance, Legal and more.
• Establish governance for complex programmes with committees and risk management.
• Facilitate delivery while maintaining clear ownership across functions.
• Coordinate regulatory examinations, inspections, audits and information requests.
• Define and monitor programme metrics and leadership dashboards.
• Prepare decision-ready papers for senior leadership.
• Capture lessons learned to improve future delivery.

Skills

Strategic programme leadership

Regulatory and compliance

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Project governance

Regulatory examinations/audits

Communication at executive level

Education

Business/finance/law/risk/compliance/operations or PM qualification

Job description

Airwallex is seeking a Senior Manager, Regulatory Strategy & Operations, EMEA. You will turn regulatory priorities into coordinated delivery across the EMEA business, working with Regulatory Operations, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Financial Crime, Product, Engineering, Finance and Operations.

You will build governance, ownership, and execution discipline to enable growth. You will coordinate regulatory programmes, examinations and audits, and report progress with dashboards and decision-ready