Manager, Regulatory Compliance, Hong Kong

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.

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The Global Regulatory Compliance Team forms part of the second line of defence (2LOD) at Airwallex whilst operating within the larger LRC function. We are a proactive and trusted business partner committed to enabling Airwallex’s growth and strategic goals by providing an advisory and oversight role. Our team culture is collaborative, impact-driven with a focus on continuous improvement. You’ll be part of a team that values transparency, empowerment, and high performance.

This role has a specific focus on our business in Hong Kong and the licences that we hold to operate in that region. This role will be a key member of the Global Regulatory Compliance Team, with a reporting line to the Director, Regulatory Compliance, Asia (who is based in Singapore).

As Manager, Regulatory Compliance, Hong Kong you will deliver on the regulatory engagement strategy for Airwallex in the region and manage our existing payment services, securities and asset management and money remittance compliance program. You will maintain our licensing responsibilities and coordinate with all internal and external parties as necessary to ensure compliance. This includes communication of regulatory requirements, cross-functional collaboration to productize solutions and offerings, implementation and execution of processes, renewal of registrations and licenses, and interfacing with regulators. You will analyse new and existing products and provide guidance to ensure that our 2LOD controls are fit for purpose and comply with regulatory obligations and guide the first line business to enable the maturity of both customer-facing and internal back-office processes and product features.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Airwallex Group’s expansion by managing the regulatory compliance components of licence authorisation processes

• Act as a key stakeholder and primary point-of-contact with our regulators, CED/SFC/HKMA, in relation to licence applications, business plan updates and information requests between Airwallex and our regulators

• Ensure that our regulatory compliance and integrity risk reporting obligations are maintained in Hong Kong and support and / or manage regulatory requests

• Advise the business with respect to regulatory change initiatives with a particular focus on how to effectively manage compliance risk attached to new laws and regulations in the jurisdictions we operate

• Develop policies, processes and provide advice in relation to regulatory risk obligations that exist within the first line business

• Manage regulatory compliance risk within the Airwallex Risk Management Framework and associated escalation process (inc. the Group Risk Committee)

• Advise the business in relation to conduct risk and ethics matters (where appropriate) relating to our financial services licences

• Deliver the Compliance Monitoring P...