Transaction Monitoring Lead, ANZ

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 150,000 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 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across more than 37 locations around the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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.

As our Transaction Monitoring Lead, you will be responsible for our first-line financial crime operations team. This team leader is expected to drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through TM risk assessment completion, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience across all of Airwallex’s product suite, all while protecting Airwallex from financial risk. We expect you to have strong attention to detail and to develop and apply a comprehensive understanding of AML/CTF related functions.

Who you are:

• A natural leader, with strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you

• Process-driven, ensuring we create procedures to build efficient and well-documented workflows

• A team player who can also work independently

• A master prioritiser with the ability to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task

• You have an investigative and curious nature that allows you to know when to dive deeper to get to the bottom of a problem

• You ask the right questions and make risk-based decisions

What you will do:

• Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts

• Manage SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals

• Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures

• Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to further improve our investigations and rules

• Analyse and investigate patterns and trends

• Act as the point of escalation and responsible for stakeholder management

• Conduct investigations on suspicious transactions

• Take a data driven approach to problem solving 

• Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• 5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience

• AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred

• Process-oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well-honed written and verbal communications

• Bank or fintech experience strongly preferred

• Proven track record of managing personal and team performance against metric targets and delivering against broader projects/deliverables, alongside BAU case work 

• People leadership experience - experience in managing a team of transaction monitoring or risk analysts is a plus

• Strong analytical skills with a strong ability to understand data structures, self-serve data access and analyse and interpret data to make decisions (proficiency in Excel essential, SQL/Data visualisation skills highly advantageous)

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.

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