Manager, Finance, APAC

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 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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 role
This role will be a key member of the Airwallex APAC Finance team. As APAC Finance Manager you will take full ownership of entities in the APAC region and ensure compliance with financial reporting, local audit and tax requirements. You will play an important role in ensuring the accuracy of the monthly financial reporting and work closely with our FP&A, Tax and Treasury team. Your role will be a combination of recurring finance tasks and project based initiatives to continuously improve the Controllership team within Airwallex. You will also have a chance to be a financial architect for our inorganic growth (M&A) and partnering with our APAC regulatory and licensing team to expand our APAC footprint . This will be an individual contributor role.
Responsibilities:

• Own the financial control procedures on our monthly reporting processes including journal entry, balance sheet, P&L reviews prior to submission to FP&A
• Lead financial statement audits and tax filings and liaise with external auditors and advisors in resolving issues.
• Drive a wide range of improvement projects for the Controllership team within Airwallex, these projects may include 1) Enabling new products in our reporting structure 2) Standardizing our process and driving efficiencies 3) Any process improvement that will help Airwallex's controllership function to grow and mature to the next level!
• Closely collaborate with product or business teams that require finance support on new product developments
• Close collaboration with other finance, treasury and operations teams on department wide projects, change management and financial business advisory
• Support M&A initiatives and regulatory and licensing undertakings
• Responsibilities of the role may develop over time.

What you bring:

• 6+ years of finance experience, Big Four experience is advantageous

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field, CPA or equivalent qualification preferred
• Good understanding of financial services, fintech businesses and regulatory environments
• Experience in a financial controlling role and proven track record of building and expanding these capabilities within an organization.
• Strong knowledge on local accounting standards and being able to apply them in practice. Knowledge of US GAAP would be advantageous.
• Proven experiencing in managing complex, local or international projects focused on process improvement initiatives
• Strong communicator and ability to interact with all levels within the organization

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