Manager, Regulatory Compliance

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 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, compliance and financial risks. The Global Regulatory Compliance Team forms part of the second line of defense ( 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 is a newly created role with a specific focus on our US business. This role will be a key member of the Global Regulatory Compliance Team, based in our New York or San Francisco office with a direct line to the Lead Regulatory Compliance Manager, Americas. What you'll do As Manager, Regulatory Compliance, US you will deliver on the regulatory engagement strategy for Airwallex US and help drive our US State MTL licensing program. You will maintain our licensing responsibilities and coordinate with all internal and external parties as necessary to ensure compliance through the communication of regulatory requirements, cross-functional collaboration to productize solutions and offerings, implementation and execution of processes, filing of all requisite reports, renewal of registrations and licenses, end-to-end management of regulatory examinations, and interfacing with US regulators on ad-hoc inquiries. You will analyze 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. The role is based in San Francisco or New York. Responsibilities: Support the Airwallex Group's expansion by managing the regulatory compliance components of license authorization processes Act as a key stakeholder in relation to license applications, business plan updates and information requests between Airwallex and our regulators Ensure that our regulatory compliance and integrity risk reporting obligations are maintained for all Airwallex Group entities in the US region Support and/or manage on-site exams and inspections (in collaboration with our LRC colleagues) 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 regul