Global AML & Financial Crime Leader

Airwallex; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex, a global unified payments and financial platform, seeks an AML/CTF Compliance leader based in New York to translate regulatory expectations into practical policies and controls. You will partner with cross-functional teams to manage money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks as the company expands into new markets.

The role requires deep AML/CTF expertise, strong risk assessment capabilities, and the ability to communicate complex requirements across multiple jurisdictions and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in AML/CTF, financial crime compliance, or a related risk or regulatory function within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or a similarly complex regulated environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of AML/CTF laws, regulations, enforcement trends, and industry practices across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience supporting or managing AML program components such as customer risk assessment, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity investigations, or sanctions-related financial crime controls.
• Experience working with customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, screening, case-management, or other compliance technology, including alert review, case disposition, or control enhancement processes.
• Ability to assess complex customer profiles, commercial transactions, products, and cross-border payment flows and identify practical, risk-based recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and advise on risk-based AML/CTF processes and controls across customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, monitoring and higher-risk customer management.
• Monitor global AML/CTF regulatory developments and support updates to policies, procedures, controls, and implementation plans.
• Provide advisory support for review and investigation of escalated customers, accounts, and transactions involving potential financial crime concerns.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, Engineering, Operations and Compliance teams to translate AML/CTF requirements into onboarding, monitoring, screening and case-management workflows.
• Support regulatory examinations, audits and governance activities; prepare metrics and training; contribute to remediation and continuous improvement projects.

Skills

AML/CTF

Financial crime

Regulatory knowledge

Risk assessment

Stakeholder mgmt

Policy development

Documentation

Education

CAMS

Job description

Airwallex, a global unified payments and financial platform, seeks an AML/CTF Compliance leader based in New York to translate regulatory expectations into practical policies and controls. You will partner with cross-functional teams to manage money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks as the company expands into new markets.

The role requires deep AML/CTF expertise, strong risk assessment capabilities, and the ability to communicate complex requirements across multiple jurisdictions and