Analyst, Treasury Operation

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is looking for a Treasury Operation Analyst in San Francisco to develop payment reconciliation frameworks and safeguard processes for financial operations. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline and strong analytical skills, as well as experience in Financial Services.

You will work closely with various teams and ensure compliance with regulations. The compensation range is between $80,000 and $110,000.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of working experience in an analytical role in Financial Services or Fintech.
• Experience with data gathering, analysis, and presentation.
• Strong interest in Finance and Treasury.

Responsibilities

• Improve transparency on global cash positions and risk exposures.
• Perform data-driven analysis on cash flows and variances.
• Design and enhance safeguarding and client money controls.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Data analysis

Education

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

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Python

Job description

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 the Treasury team, you will create transparency on cash positions, safeguard 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 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).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Financial Engineering or similar fields.
• 2+ years of working experience in an analytical role in Financial Services, Internet, or Fintech industry (preferred).
• Strong analytical skills working with large amounts of data and generating business insights; prior experience in end‑to‑end analytical processes including data gathering, analysis, presentation, and execution (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, with working knowledge of financial markets, banking/payment products, and accounting standards.
• Prior experience with programming languages such as SQL, R, Python, AI applications, and analytical tools such as Tableau, Looker, and Data Studio.
• Enjoy working in a fast‑paced, start‑up and autonomous environment, with 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 can prioritize and execute tasks.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $80,000 – $110,000

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.