Analyst, Treasury Operation

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Treasury Operation Analyst in San Francisco to improve transparency on cash positions and compliance. The role involves data analysis and building robust financial frameworks to support the company’s global operations.

The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Finance or related fields with strong analytical skills and experience in financial services. Join us to empower businesses worldwide.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 years working experience in an analytical role in Financial Services or Fintech.
• Strong foundation in quantitative analysis and data handling.
• Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Develop consistent reporting, analytics, and KPIs for cash positions and risk exposures.
• Perform data-driven financial and reconciliation analysis.
• Design and implement compliance controls for safeguarding client money.
• Automate Treasury and financial operations processes.
• Support finance initiatives and product launches.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

SQL

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or related field

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Python

Job description

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 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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 Finance & Corporate Development team at Airwallex drives the company's financial strategy and growth. Our team focuses on financial planning, analysis, and corporate transactions to ensure Airwallex's long‑term success. We collaborate across departments to identify opportunities, manage risks, and execute strategic initiatives. Our goal is to support the company's mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.

What you'll do

This role will focus on building robust payment reconciliation frameworks and safeguarding processes across our global payment flows, ensuring customer funds are protected and financial operations run seamlessly end to end. As a Treasury Operation Analyst in our Treasury team, you will create transparency on cash positions, safeguarding compliance, and run rebalancing, providing senior management with the insights they need to manage risk and support scalable growth.

This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

• Improve transparency on Airwallex’s global cash positions, funding needs, risk exposures, and control environment by developing consistent reporting, analytics, and KPIs across all entities, and contribute to the standardisation and automation of these processes.
• Perform data‑driven financial and reconciliation analysis on cash flows, payment volumes, safeguarding balances, and variances, translating findings into clear, actionable insights that support Treasury, Finance, and business decision‑making.
• Design, implement, and continuously enhance safeguarding and client money controls (including account segregation, daily reconciliations, variance monitoring, and remediation workflows) to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk appetite.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to define reconciliation and safeguarding requirements, shape data models and tooling, and design operational workflows that scale with new products, geographies, partners, and regulatory regimes.
• Drive process standardisation and automation across Treasury and financial operations, reducing manual intervention and operational risk.
• Provide ad hoc support on Finance and firm wide initiatives (e.g. new banking partners, regulatory change, product launches, capital and liquidity projects).

Who you are

We’re looking for individuals with strong analytical foundations, sharp business judgment, and the ability to turn insight into action. The minimum qualifications are essential to succeed in this role. Preferred qualifications help you stand out, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Financial Engineering or similar fields;
• 2+ years working experience in an analytical role in Financial Services, Internet and Fintech industry is preferred;
• Strong analytical skills of working with very large amount of data and using tools to generate business insights, prior experience in end to end analytical process including data gathering, analysis, presenting and execution is preferred;
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to build relationships and work effectively with others.

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong interest in developing a career in Finance and Treasury, working knowledge of financial markets, banking/payment products and accounting standard is preferred;
• Prior experience with programming languages such as SQL, R and Python, AI applications, and analytical tools such as Tableau, Looker and Data Studio is a plus;
• Enjoy working in a fast‑paced, start‑up and autonomous environment, have a level of maturity to run your own race within the organization;
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and urgency; a problem‑solver who takes initiative and able to prioritize and execute tasks.

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.