Global AML Manager

About Airwallex Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 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. About the team The Regulatory & Compliance team at Airwallex is a global, collaborative function responsible for helping the company grow safely and sustainably. We provide trusted guidance across the business, strengthen our regulatory framework, and promote a culture of compliance, sound risk management, and ethical conduct. The Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team is a strategically important second-line function operating under a clear three lines of defense model, with responsibility for Airwallex’s global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) and sanctions frameworks. As Airwallex expands into new markets and deepens its engagement with regulators and financial institution partners, the team helps manage complex financial crime risks across a growing global business. What you'll do This role offers an opportunity to join a high-impact team working to help Airwallex manage global money laundering and terrorist financing risks. You will translate regulatory expectations and financial crime risks into practical, risk-based policies, controls, and guidance that support safe and sustainable growth. You will work closely with Product, Commercial, Operations, Risk, Engineering, and regional compliance teams across a global payments business. This role is based in New York. Responsibilities Support the development, implementation and ongoing maintenance of Airwallex’s Global AML/CTF Policy Framework, including articulation of global minimum standards,across the first and second lines of defense, partnering with regional teams on appropriate regional and local adaptations. Develop, implement, and advise on risk-based AML/CTF processes and controls covering customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity escalation, and higher-risk customer management. Monitor global AML/CTF regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices, assess their impact on Airwallex, and support updates to policies, procedures, controls, and implementation plans. Advisory support for the review and investigation of escalated customers, accounts, and transactions involving potential money laundering, terrorist financing, or other financial crime concerns to provide interpretative guidance of policy requirements. Partner with the Risk Assessment, Product, Data, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance Technology teams to identify emerging risks, evaluate control effectiveness, and translate AML/CTF requirements into effective onboarding, monitoring, screening, payment, and case-management workflows. Support regulatory examinations, partner bank inquiries, and audits; prepare governance materials, metrics, risk indicators, and training; and contribute to due diligence, remediation, and continuous improvement projects that strengthen the global AML/CTF program. Maintain central program registers and governance of action items in response to self-identified issues, internal and ex