Global AML Manager

Airwallex
New York, San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 120,000 - 190,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Written communication","Analytical thinking","Project management","Stakeholder management","Independent judgment"]

Lead Airwallex’s global AML/CTF program by translating regulatory expectations and financial crime risks into risk-based policies, controls, and guidance. Partner with Product, Risk, Engineering, Operations, and compliance technology teams to embed AML/CTF requirements into onboarding, monitoring, screening, and case-management workflows. Monitor regulatory developments, advise on escalated investigations, support examinations and audits, and maintain governance registers to track remediation and outcomes.

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Global AML Manager

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Job Summary

Lead Airwallex’s global AML/CTF program by translating regulatory expectations and financial crime risks into risk-based policies, controls, and guidance. Partner with Product, Risk, Engineering, Operations, and compliance technology teams to embed AML/CTF requirements into onboarding, monitoring, screening, and case-management workflows. Monitor regulatory developments, advise on escalated investigations, support examinations and audits, and maintain governance registers to track remediation and outcomes.
Location: New York, San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Support development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of the Global AML/CTF Policy Framework, including global minimum standards and regional adaptations across defenses.
  • •Develop and advise on risk-based AML/CTF processes and controls for customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity escalation, and high-risk customer management.
  • •Monitor AML/CTF regulatory developments and industry practices, assess impact, and help update policies, procedures, controls, and implementation plans.
  • •Provide advisory support for reviews and investigations of escalated customers, accounts, and transactions with potential money laundering, terrorist financing, or other financial crime concerns.
  • •Partner with Risk Assessment, Product, Data, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance Technology teams to embed AML/CTF requirements into onboarding, monitoring, screening, payment, and case-management workflows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 190,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

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

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
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