Global AML Manager

Airwallex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking a Regulatory & Compliance professional to help translate regulatory expectations into practical AML/CTF policies, controls, and guidance. You will collaborate with Product, Risk, Engineering, Operations, and regional teams to support safe, compliant growth across a global payments platform.

Role based in San Francisco or New York, focusing on leading global money-laundering and terrorist financing risk management within a second-line function, aligned to Airwallex’s three

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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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 Regulatory & Compliance team at Airwallex is a global, collaborative function responsible for helping the company grow safely and sustainably. We provide trusted guidance across the business, strengthen our regulatory framework, and promote a culture of compliance, sound risk management, and ethical conduct.

The Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team is a strategically important second-line function operating under a clear three lines of defense model, with responsibility for Airwallex’s global anti-money laundering and counter‑terrorist financing (AML/CTF) and sanctions frameworks. As Airwallex expands into new markets and deepens its engagement with regulators and financial institution partners, the team helps manage complex financial crime risks across a growing global business.

What you'll do

This role offers an opportunity to join a high‑impact team working to help Airwallex manage global money laundering and terrorist financing risks. You will translate regulatory expectations and financial crime risks into practical, risk‑based policies, controls, and guidance that support safe and sustainable growth. You will work closely with Product, Commercial, Operations, Risk, Engineering, and regional compliance teams across a global payments business.

This role is based in San Francisco or New York.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, implementation and ongoing maintenance of Airwallex’s Global AML/CTF Policy Framework, including articulation of global minimum standards,across the first and second lines of defense, partnering with regional teams on appropriate regional and local adaptations.

• Develop, implement, and advise on risk‑based AML/CTF processes and controls covering customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity escalation, and higher‑risk customer management.

• Monitor global AML/CTF regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices, assess their impact on Airwallex, and support updates to policies, procedures, controls, and implementation plans.

• Advisory support for the review and investigation of escalated customers, accounts, and transactions involving potential money laundering, terrorist financing, or other financial crime concerns to provide interpretative guidance of policy requirements.

• Partner with the Risk Assessment, Product, Data, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance Technology teams to identify emerging risks, evaluate control effectiveness, and translate AML/CTF requirements into effective onboarding, monitoring, screening, payment, and case‑management workflows.

• Support regulatory examinations, partner bank inquiries, and audits; prepare governance