Senior Director, Enterprise Risk Management

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Airwallex is seeking a Senior Director of Enterprise Risk Management to scale risk capabilities across the US and EMEA, translating risk appetite into practical action. You will report to senior leadership and partner with compliance, legal, product, engineering, and finance to build a resilient, data‑driven risk program.

The role requires leadership of a global second line team, strong governance, and the ability to drive risk culture across multiple markets and products in a fintech

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or related quantitative field (must have).
• 10–15+ years in risk management within regulated financial services, fintech, or payments.
• At least 5+ years leading enterprise risk management or governance programmes in complex organizations.
• Experience designing or scaling second line of defense frameworks.

Aufgaben

• Evolve enterprise risk architecture, governance standards, escalation protocols, and oversight.
• Translate risk data into clear reporting for the C‑suite and Board committees.
• Oversee risk‑informed governance for new products and markets, ensuring control maturity.
• Strengthen the enterprise crisis management framework with proactive readiness.
• Foster a risk‑aware culture with clear ownership and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Build and lead a global second line team partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance and Legal.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise risk management

Governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field

Jobbeschreibung

Airwallex · UK - London

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Senior Director, Enterprise Risk Management

About Airwallex Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We’re the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We’re co‑headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder‑level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

About the team The Global Risk team at Airwallex plays a critical role in enabling the company’s growth by building a strong, scalable, and globally consistent approach to risk management. The team works across the business to define risk appetite, develop frameworks and policies, support strategic decision‑making, and provide oversight of key risks as Airwallex expands across products, markets, and regulatory environments. You’ll be part of a highly collaborative group that partners closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Financial Crime Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal teams to help Airwallex grow responsibly and with confidence. This is a team where you’ll tackle complex, high‑impact challenges, shape how risk is managed at a global fintech, and help build the foundations for long‑term scale.

What you’ll do

As Senior Director, Enterprise Risk Management, you will shape and scale Airwallex’s enterprise risk management capability across the US and EMEA, helping ensure risk management is a strategic enabler of growth rather than a check‑the‑box exercise. You will translate Board‑approved risk appetite into practical decision‑making, strengthen governance and reporting, guide major product and organization changes, and help the company stay resilient as it grows across markets, products, and regulatory environments. You will work closely with the Chief Regulatory and Compliance Officer and senior leaders across the business to turn complex risk signals into clear action, while building a strong and practical risk culture across the organization. This role is based in the US or EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of Airwallex’s enterprise risk architecture, including risk appetite, taxonomy, governance standards, escalation protocols, and enterprise‑wide oversight, ensuring the framework remains aligned with business strategy and global growth priorities.
• Translate complex risk data, issues, and trends into clear, decision‑useful reporting for the C‑suite, Board committees, and external stakeholders, and act as a trusted independent advisor who can challenge initiatives that exceed approved risk appetite or outpace control maturity.
• Oversee risk‑informed change governance for new products, new markets, major systems changes, and structural changes, ensuring governance supports business velocity while maintaining effective control standards and clear accountability for remediation of material issues.
• Own and continue to strengthen the enterprise crisis management framework, including escalation triggers, governance, and executive response mechanisms, while improving preparedness for severe but plausible events across operational, regulatory, technology, and business domains.
• Drive a unified, risk‑aware culture across the organisation by championing consistent adoption of enterprise risk standards, reinforcing first line ownership, and promoting risk management as a shared responsibility and competitive advantage.
• Build and lead a high‑performing global second line team, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Compliance, Legal, Treasury, Finance, and regional leadership to support Airwallex’s next phase of scale with more data‑driven and technology‑enabled risk oversight.

Who you are

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or another relevant quantitative field.
• 10 to 15+ years of experience in risk management, operational risk, enterprise risk, compliance, controls, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.
• At least 5+ years leading enterprise risk management, operational risk, or governance programmes in a complex, matrixed, multi‑jurisdiction organisation.
• Proven experience designing, building, or scaling second line of defense frameworks.