Senior Analyst, Financial Operations

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Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, MYS
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Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Payments • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Generative AI
Do the most ambitious work of your career. Airwallex is building the future of global banking.
The Role
Lead a 10-15 person APAC financial operations team to scale global transaction lifecycle operations, monitor clearing and liquidity, maintain safeguarding and compliance reporting, drive process automation, build data-driven metrics and QA frameworks, and collaborate with product and commercial teams to remediate operational issues.
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About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

 
The Role:

Financial Operations team aims to deliver operation excellence of client transaction lifecycle and manage liquidity to support company business growth across the globe. As a Financial Ops Analyst, you will have extensive interaction with the Greater China business stakeholders and closely partner other Ops teams in Greater China and internationally.

 

Responsibilities:

  1. Monitor end-to-end client transaction lifecycle globally, handle enquiries, detect exceptions from data reports and dashboard in a timely manner, assist to communicate with teams and other departments to handle issues.

  2. Monitor clearing and settlement of client funds and global money pools; drive data oriented approaches to support upgrade liquidity management system and fund risk management, and treasury efficiency and utilization.

  3. Maintain team knowledge base and refine the standard operating procedures; support to explore operation optimization and process automation tooling.

  4. Assist to build up data oriented team performance metrics, quality assurance framework and tooling to monitor, detect, and remediate operational risk areas and control defects to minimize errors

  5. Assist to set up compliant, accurate and timely reporting data capabilities based on external regulatory and 3rd party requirements

 

Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor degree or above, more than two years experience in data or operation teams. Payment industry, banking, foreign exchange, and other related background experience is preferred;

  2. Ability to rapidly understand new products, goal/results oriented and stress resistant;

  1. Strong communication skills and customer service consciousness are required;

  1. Attention to details is a must;

  2. Good reading and writing skills in both English and Chinese, able to adapt to a working environment in both languages;

  3. Experience with MS Office; technical skillset of SQL is required; Python, and visualization tools of Tableau, Looker is a plus;

Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

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.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or above
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in payments or operations at a technology company
  • Experienced people manager with demonstrated experience leading teams
  • Proficient working with data
  • Experience with MS Office
  • Strong communication skills and customer service orientation
  • Attention to detail and documented approach
  • Ability to rapidly understand new products and problem-solving skills
  • Team player with strong collaboration skills
  • Experience working in a global, dynamic environment
  • VBA
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Looker
  • Data Studio

What the Team is Saying

Airwallex Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength — Available descriptions highlight medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental‑health/EAP coverage for U.S. employees, with Modern Health/Rula noted in eligible markets. Feedback suggests this comprehensive core health coverage is a standout element of the package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. postings cite 20 vacation days plus 12 company holidays, alongside birthday leave and three volunteer days in some locations. These policies are portrayed as generous and complemented by flexible remote‑work options in approved locations.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Eligible employees may receive RSUs or stock options in many markets, with U.S. materials noting RSUs via Carta and performance‑based bonuses. Feedback suggests this ownership component is a key part of total compensation.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,300 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

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, McLaren 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.

Why Work With Us

Airwallex was founded by people told their idea was unreasonable, and we've hired that way ever since. We move fast, think globally, and give you ownership from day one. If you want to pioneer global finance at scale alongside the ambitious, let's talk.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

At a global level, we have a strong in-office culture. We’ve invested in world-class office space in hub cities around the world. We see the benefits of in-person conversation, mentoring, and knowledge-transfer as vital to our long-term success.

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