Manager, FCC Monitoring & Testing, APAC

Airwallex; Petaling Jaya; Presencial; MYR 300.000 - 520.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Airwallex seeks a Manager, FCC Monitoring & Testing, APAC, based in Malaysia, to shape and scale the global financial crime monitoring framework. You will independently validate AML, sanctions, and KYC/KYB controls across production environments and set up metrics to support executive decision-making and governance.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to drive remediation, improve control effectiveness, and ensure regulatory readiness across APAC, excluding China and Hong

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, Information Systems, Business Administration or related field.
• CAMS certification or ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance (or equivalent).
• 10+ years in FCC quality assurance, compliance monitoring, internal audit, or related function in fintech/payments.
• Strong knowledge of financial crime controls: transaction monitoring, sanctions/PEP screening, due diligence, and KYC/KYB workflows.
• Proven risk-based testing methodologies, including scoping, sampling, design and operating effectiveness assessments, issue writing, remediation validation.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and evolve Airwallex’s Global FCC Monitoring & Testing Programme with robust testing methodologies and annual plans.
• Design testing frameworks for onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting workflows.
• Oversee FCC monitoring for APAC (excl. China/HK) with KPIs and effectiveness metrics.
• Leverage data analytics and automation to move toward continuous assurance and population-based testing.
• Validate system-encoded controls and ensure no logic drift; assess thresholds and screening logic.
• Translate testing outcomes into clear reporting for executives and governance forums; drive remediation.
• Represent FCC monitoring during regulatory examinations, audits, and partner reviews.

Conocimientos

Financial crime controls

Risk-based testing

Stakeholder management

SQL

Python

KYC/KYB workflows

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field

CAMS or ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance

Herramientas

SQL

Python

BI dashboards

Regulatory reporting

Descripción del empleo

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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You’re humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

The Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team at Airwallex is a strategically vital function operating under a clear Three Lines of Defence model. As the independent second line, FCC owns the global AML/CTF programme, sanctions framework, risk assessment methodology, and governance infrastructure across all global entities. As Airwallex scales into new markets and deepens its engagement with global regulatory bodies, we are building a world-class compliance organization capable of managing complex financial crime risks at scale. This is an environment where you will tackle high-impact challenges, shape global fintech risk strategies, and help establish foundations for long-term growth.

What you’ll do

As Manager, FCC Monitoring & Testing, APAC you will shape and scale Airwallex’s global financial crime compliance monitoring and testing framework, establishing a rigorous, data-driven second-line assurance function. You will independently validate the design and operating effectiveness of AML, Sanctions, and KYC/KYB controls across all production environments and establish a monitoring framework and associated metrics to support executive decisioning and ongoing maintenance of program and control operating effectiveness. You will work closely with the broader FCC organization, Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership to turn testing insights into operational accountability, robust remediation, and a defensible compliance posture before global regulators and institutional banking partners.

This role covers the APAC region (excluding China and Hong Kong) and is based in Malaysia. In this role, you will be a key part of a global team, collaborating closely across regions to drive consistent FCC Monitoring & Testing standards.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the strategic development, execution, and continuous evolution of Airwallex’s Global FCC Monitoring & Testing Programme, establishing robust, risk-based testing methodologies and annual plans for independent second-line assurance.
• Design comprehensive testing frameworks to validate core compliance controls across customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting workflows, ensuring coverage keeps pace with product and market expansion.
• Oversee the ongoing FCC monitoring program for APAC (excluding China and Hong Kong), including establishment of KPIs and operating effectiveness metrics.
• Advance the transition from traditional sample reviews toward continuous, data-enabled assurance by leveraging data analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts to evaluate compliance control performance at the population level.
• Oversee the independent validation of system-encoded controls, including transaction monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models, ensuring systems function as intended without logic drift or hidden control gaps.
• Translate complex testing outcomes and thematic trends into clear, decision-useful reporting for executive leadership and governance forums, providing constructive challenge to stakeholders and tracking the root‑cause remediation of control deficiencies.
• Represent the FCC monitoring and testing function during regulatory examinations, internal or external audits, and banking partner reviews, confidently defending testing methodologies and control evidence.

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, Accounting, Law, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related quantitative/analytical discipline.
• CAMS certification or an ICA International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (or equivalent professional credential).
• 10+ years of experience within FCC quality assurance, compliance monitoring, internal audit, or a related second/third-line control function inside a fintech, payments, or highly regulated banking environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of financial crime controls across transaction monitoring, sanctions/PEP screening, customer due diligence, and digital KYC/KYB workflows.
• Proven mastery of risk-based testing methodologies, including scoping, sampling, design and operating effectiveness assessments, issue writing, and remediation validation.
• A high-ownership, pragmatic approach, with excellent written communication and stakeholder management skills to challenge senior partners constructively and drive operational accountability.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree such as an MBA, Master’s in Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Professional assurance or audit certifications such as CAMS-Audit, CISA, or CIA.
• Strong fintech and platforms experience, including exposure to cloud-native, API-driven, high-growth global environments with significant cross-border transaction volume.
• Strong data literacy, including comfort using SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated tools to support continuous control validation and population-based testing.
• Experience partnering directly with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to validate automated rules, model-driven controls, and rapid deployments within an agile product lifecycle.

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.