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.

Role Summary

Own and oversee global regulatory reporting across all jurisdictions, ensuring accurate, timely, and complete submissions. Lead the regulatory reporting function and automated reporting platform enhancements, maintain strong governance and internal controls, and serve as the primary liaison between Compliance/Legal, Operations, Finance, Risk, Data, Product and Technology to ensure data integrity and readiness for audits. Proactively monitor regulatory change, assess impact, and drive implementation to keep reporting processes and systems compliant and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

1) Regulatory expertise & compliance

Maintain strong working knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements across all global jurisdictions (e.g., US, Europe, APAC), including periodic and ad-hoc obligations.

Track rules, guidance, interpretations, and updates from relevant regulatory bodies and industry standards.

Interpret new and evolving requirements, translate them into actionable reporting changes, and document regulatory positions and assumptions.

2) Reporting process & systems (automation, controls, data integration)

Oversee and support automated regulatory reporting workflows to ensure accuracy, timeliness, completeness, and consistent application of reporting logic.

Partner with Technology/Data teams to enhance the regulatory reporting platform, including: requirements definition, prioritization, testing, release planning, and post-release validation, integration with internal data sources (e.g., trading, finance, risk, reference/master data)

Establish, maintain, and continuously improve internal controls and governance, including reconciliations, exception management, approvals, and evidence retention.

Prepare for and support internal/external audits and regulatory examinations, ensuring documentation and control evidence are complete and accessible.

3) Reporting operations & accountability

Manage the submission process for periodic and ad-hoc reports to relevant regulatory authorities, ensuring on-time delivery and appropriate sign-offs.

Monitor reporting schedules/calendars and ensure operational readiness (data availability, controls performed, exceptions resolved).

Own issue management for reporting defects, data quality breaks, and submission exceptions—driving root-cause analysis, remediation, and preventive controls.

Conduct impact assessments for regulatory changes and lead implementation efforts, including updates to procedures, systems logic, controls, and training.

4) Leadership & collaboration

Lead, coach, and develop the regulatory reporting team; set performance expectations, operating standards, and quality benchmarks.

Create team playbooks, procedures, and training materials to improve consistency and scalability.

Act as a key liaison across Compliance/Legal, Operations, Risk,...