Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations, CEO Office

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex in Singapore seeks a strategic programs lead to drive APAC market expansion from sizing to scale-up. You’ll align licensing, entity structures, and commercial models with product teams to deliver ready-to-launch markets.

You’ll translate regulatory needs into actionable scope, prepare executive recommendations, and build AI-assisted tools and dashboards to streamline entry efforts. You’ll coordinate governance with senior stakeholders across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in MBB consulting, fintech expansion, or financial services law.
• Experience managing executive-level updates and multi-stakeholder programs.
• Strong ability to structure multi-workstreams and governance cadences.
• Proficient with AI tools for research, analysis, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Support APAC country expansion strategy from market sizing through commercial scale-up.
• Evaluate licensing paths, entity structures, and commercial models for each market.
• Translate regulatory requirements into product scope and sequencing with Product teams.
• Prepare executive recommendations on market prioritization, launch readiness, and investments.
• Build AI-assisted tools, templates, and dashboards for market entry operations.
• Run go/no-go governance with cross-functional sign-off and risk mitigation plans.
• Flex onto CEO Office initiatives including strategic reviews, restructures, and crisis response.

Skills

Stakeholder management

AI tool usage

Strategic thinking

Tools

AI tooling

Workflow automation tools

Job description

What you'd do:

• Support APAC country expansion strategy from market sizing through commercial scale-up
• Evaluate licensing paths, entity structures, and commercial models for each market
• Translate regulatory requirements into product scope and sequencing with Product teams
• Prepare executive recommendations on market prioritization, launch readiness, and investments
• Build AI-assisted tools, templates, and dashboards for market entry operations
• Run go/no-go governance with cross-functional sign-off and risk mitigation plans
• Flex onto CEO Office initiatives including strategic reviews, restructures, and crisis response

What they want:

• Two to four years in MBB consulting, fintech expansion, or financial services law
• Contribute to complex multi-stakeholder programs with executive-level updates
• Structure multi-workstream programs, governance cadences, and cross-functional dependencies
• Use AI tools daily for research, analysis, documentation, and workflow automation
• Manage senior stakeholders and communicate clearly in fast-paced ambiguous environments
• Take high ownership and get hands-on to advance market launches

Nice to have:

• APAC fintech or payments market launches and licence application experience
• Financial services regulatory and licensing knowledge across payments and banking
• Combined consulting and in-house strategy or legal and commercial backgrounds
• Cross-functional global expansion launch experience across product, legal, and compliance
• CEO Office, strategy and operations, or central special projects team experience
• Build lightweight AI tooling to automate launch status and dependency tracking Two to four years in MBB consulting, fintech expansion, or financial services law

Contribute to complex multi-stakeholder programs with executive-level updates

Structure multi-workstream programs, governance cadences, and cross-functional dependencies

Use AI tools daily for research, analysis, documentation, and workflow automation

Manage senior stakeholders and communicate clearly in fast-paced ambiguous environments

Take high ownership and get hands-on to advance market launches