Transaction Monitoring Senior Analyst

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 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.

• Role:

  This role mainly focuses on transaction monitoring case handling. It reports to the GC Transaction Monitoring Manager.

  Responsibilities:

  • Conduct daily transaction monitoring tasks to timely clear and escalate the transactions in case management system per predefined TM procedure.

  • Managing inquiries on suspicious transactions from banking partners or law enforcement.

  • Conduct comprehensive analysis over suspicious clients where applicable and file STR to the regulatory agencies.

  • Participate in various AML related projects and initiatives to help drive the operation excellence and overall efficiency.

  • Proactively stay up-to-date with AML related news and regulatory developments, improve the knowledge base of AML and Sanctions within the team and assist with the development of in-house expertise.

  • Complete other work related to transaction monitoring operation or assigned by FinCrime Operation Manager.

  Key Requirements:

  • A minimum of 5 years of relevant AML and Sanctions experience in a public accounting and/or litigation/disputes consulting firm, financial services industry or regulatory environment.

  • Familiarity with common money laundering schemes, sanctions compliance, general or risk-based compliance, risk management, other financial crime compliance.

  • Meticulous with good analytical skills, detail-orientated, team player, proficient in time management and able to represent Compliance in Group projects

  • Demonstrate ability to effectively review and analyse data/situation and apply judgement to resolve issues in a timely manner

  • Having substantial hands on experience on the following areas is a plus:

    • International, regional and local regulatory knowledge/experience, AML and OFAC risk assessment of Process improvement initiatives (KYC, CDD, etc.)

    • Policy & procedure development (Black/white list maintenance; STR writing/review, etc.)

    • Alert clearing and investigations

    • Common AML Typology Analysis

    • Vendor solutions in KYC

    • Transaction Monitoring, Case Management or Sanction Compliance

    • Internet Financing or payment company risk and Compliance

    • Investment banking

  • Excellent verbal and written communication in both Mandarin and English.

  • Proficient in use of MS outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

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