Airwallex

4 weeks ago

Manager, Enterprise Risk

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Job Summary

Lead the evolution and global governance of Airwallex’s enterprise risk program in Lithuania and across EMEA, translating risk appetite into actionable decisions, strengthening governance and reporting, guiding risk-informed product and market changes, and enhancing crisis management for a fast-growing fintech.

Location: Vilnius

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Shape and scale Airwallex’s enterprise risk architecture (risk appetite, taxonomy, governance standards, escalation protocols, and enterprise-wide oversight) to stay aligned with business strategy and global growth priorities.
•Translate risk data, issues, and trends into clear, decision-useful reporting for senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor to challenge initiatives that exceed approved risk appetite or control maturity.
•Support overseeing risk-informed change governance for new products, new markets, major systems changes, and structural changes, ensuring governance supports business velocity while maintaining control standards and accountability for remediation of material issues.
•Strengthen the enterprise crisis management framework, including escalation triggers, governance, and executive response mechanisms for severe but plausible events across operational, regulatory, technology, and business domains.
•Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Financial Crime Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal to embed risk management as a strategic enabler of growth across markets and products.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 50,000 - 83,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or another relevant quantitative field.
•5 to 7+ years of experience in risk management, operational risk, enterprise risk, compliance, controls, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.
•Experience with defense frameworks, including risk appetite statements, risk taxonomies, governance processes, and escalation mechanisms.
•Familiarity with the regulatory environment relevant to electronic money institutions and payments firms, including practical exposure to the Bank of Lithuania.
•Demonstrated experience preparing risk papers and communicating effectively with executives, Board or committee audiences, regulators, or auditors, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience:5-7 yearsFintechPaymentsFinancial services

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementLeadershipAnalytical thinkingProblem-solving

Company Brief

Airwallex

Airwallex is a global payments and financial platform that provides business accounts, cross-border payments, treasury, corporate cards, and embedded finance APIs to help companies manage global financial operations and scale internationally.

Industry: Fintech Infrastructure

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore

Founded: 2015

Glassdoor: 3.7

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Airwallex

4 weeks ago

Manager, Enterprise Risk

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 1 hour agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Vilnius

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Shape and scale Airwallex’s enterprise risk architecture (risk appetite, taxonomy, governance standards, escalation protocols, and enterprise-wide oversight) to stay aligned with business strategy and global growth priorities.
•Translate risk data, issues, and trends into clear, decision-useful reporting for senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor to challenge initiatives that exceed approved risk appetite or control maturity.
•Support overseeing risk-informed change governance for new products, new markets, major systems changes, and structural changes, ensuring governance supports business velocity while maintaining control standards and accountability for remediation of material issues.
•Strengthen the enterprise crisis management framework, including escalation triggers, governance, and executive response mechanisms for severe but plausible events across operational, regulatory, technology, and business domains.
•Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Financial Crime Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal to embed risk management as a strategic enabler of growth across markets and products.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 50,000 - 83,000 annually

Key Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or another relevant quantitative field.
•5 to 7+ years of experience in risk management, operational risk, enterprise risk, compliance, controls, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.
•Experience with defense frameworks, including risk appetite statements, risk taxonomies, governance processes, and escalation mechanisms.
•Familiarity with the regulatory environment relevant to electronic money institutions and payments firms, including practical exposure to the Bank of Lithuania.
•Demonstrated experience preparing risk papers and communicating effectively with executives, Board or committee audiences, regulators, or auditors, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience:5-7 yearsFintechPaymentsFinancial services

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementLeadershipAnalytical thinkingProblem-solving

Company Brief

Airwallex

Industry: Fintech Infrastructure

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore

Founded: 2015

Glassdoor: 3.7

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor