Senior Data Scientist, Regulatory Analytics & Reporting

Airwallex; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex in Singapore seeks a senior analytics professional to own the analytical layer of its regulatory data infrastructure. You’ll define correct data logic, build end-to-end reporting pipelines, and raise analytical rigour across risk and compliance domains.

You’ll partner with Compliance, Finance, and Data Engineering to standardise dimensions and ensure timely regulator filings. Bring 5+ years of data analytics, SQL, and dbt experience, plus comfort with modern tools like BigQuery,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Finance, Economics or a related quantitative discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience extracting and manipulating large datasets with SQL, plus scripting experience in Python, Shell or R.
• 5+ years of proven risk management experience or equivalent, including analytics, model implementation and stakeholder management.
• Experience with analytics engineering practices, including writing modular, tested and documented SQL transformations using dbt or an equivalent tool, and thinking in layers across sources, staging and marts.
• Experience building exploratory and production-grade analytics with modern data tools, such as Hex, Evidence or notebook-style environments where SQL, Python and visualisation work together.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain technical data topics to non-technical audiences, document assumptions clearly and influence partners across Legal, Risk, Compliance, Finance and Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analytical and data design for priority regulatory reports, translating requirements into data logic, testing and go-live processes.
• Partner with Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Finance, Data Operations and Data Engineering to standardise common dimensions such as accounts, FX, products and entities across reports.
• Co-design data models and mart-layer logic with Data Engineering, shaping how reporting dimensions are structured, tested and versioned upstream.
• Define automated test suites and manual quality-assurance playbooks that reports must pass before submission to regulators.
• Investigate anomalies, requests for information and audit findings by quantifying impact, identifying root causes across products and entities, and proposing remediation options.
• Shape requirements for a scalable regulatory reporting and risk analytics platform.
• Raise the standard of analytical rigour, documentation and validation across risk and compliance topics, while mentoring analysts and data scientists in adjacent teams.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, or a

Education

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

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Databricks

Snowflake

Hex

Evidence

Job description

Airwallex in Singapore seeks a senior analytics professional to own the analytical layer of its regulatory data infrastructure. You’ll define correct data logic, build end-to-end reporting pipelines, and raise analytical rigour across risk and compliance domains.

You’ll partner with Compliance, Finance, and Data Engineering to standardise dimensions and ensure timely regulator filings. Bring 5+ years of data analytics, SQL, and dbt experience, plus comfort with modern tools like BigQuery,