Associate Director Financial Crime Compliance EU

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 team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We’re passionate about safeguarding Airwallex’s operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

What you’ll do

As the Associate Director of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) for the EU, you will act as the regional lead for our European operations, specifically overseeing our licensed entities in the Netherlands and Lithuania. You will be responsible for managing the EU FCC team, ensuring our program is robust, scalable, and compliant with EU Directives and local regulations while aligning with Airwallex’s global standards.

This is a dual-focus role: you will enhance and operationalize our program in our existing licensed markets while providing critical support as we expand our footprint across the continent. Beyond regional leadership, you will serve as a key member of the global FCC leadership team, helping to drive forward strategic global initiatives such as the Enterprise Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA), defining strategic OKRs, and strengthening the global compliance framework.

Responsibilities

• Regional Program Leadership: Own the execution and enhancement of the Financial Crime Compliance framework across the EU. You will partner closely with local Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) in the Netherlands and Lithuania to ensure compliance with local laws—including the Dutch Wwft and Lithuanian AML/CTF Law—and EU Directives (4AMLD/5AMLD/6AMLD), while maintaining alignment with global policy.

• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop the Financial Crime Compliance team across the region, fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring the team is equipped to handle rapid scale and complexity across multiple jurisdictions.

• Regulatory Liaison: overseeing relationships with key regulators. This includes maintaining constructive engagement with De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and the Bank of Lithuania (BoL). You will coordinate responses to regulatory examinations, independent reviews, and audits.

• Global Strategy & Governance: Partner with the Global Head of FCC to execute against our strategic OKRs and drive forward global initiatives. You will play a key role in strengthening the global program through projects such as enhancing our Management Information (MI) reporting, conducting product/risk coverage assessments, and monitoring performance against our risk appetite.

• New Market & Product Advisory: Partner closely with Product, Strategy, and Commercial teams to support the launch of new products and market entries across...