Airwallex

Airwallex

Associate Director, Obligations Management

US - New York · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 39 days ago
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About the role

  • The Regulatory & Compliance team helps Airwallex grow responsibly as a global financial platform.
  • It's a team for people who are thoughtful, practical, and energized by solving hard problems in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

  • As the Associate Director, Obligations Management, you will own the central governance infrastructure that identifies, catalogs, and tracks regulatory and financial partner requirements across Airwallex's footprint.
  • Sitting as a global central team, you will lead the architecture and maintenance of the global obligations register, mapping complex statutory and clearing-partner mandates directly to internal compliance controls.
  • You will partner extensively with Regional Regulatory Legal, Local Regulatory Compliance, Internal Audit, and Second-Line Risk teams to transform abstract legal mandates into a structured, data-driven, and audit-ready compliance inventory.
  • Architect, scale, and maintain the central Global Obligations Register, comprehensively cataloging all international regulatory rules, statutory laws, and Tier-1 financial partner requirements alongside their respective compliance controls.
  • Collaborate closely with the Risk team to ensure all mapped compliance controls and reporting obligations within the registry are structured effectively for independent monitoring, validation, and testing.
  • Manage and continuously evolve the centralized global RFI knowledge base, synthesizing data and insights from local Regulatory Compliance teams to curate uniform, legally defensible evidence portfolios for banking partners and regulatory bodies.
  • Own the global central audit register, tracking internal audit findings, external examination gaps, and material regulatory issues to drive accountability and verify robust root-cause remediation before deadlines.
  • Partner with Regional Regulatory Legal teams to ingest ongoing legal interpretations and horizon scanning data, ensuring the global obligations registry is dynamically updated to prevent compliance gaps or control drift.

Requirements

  • 10 to 12+ years of experience within corporate governance, regulatory compliance, internal audit, or operational risk management inside a highly regulated financial services, fintech, or banking environment
  • At least 3 to 5+ years of experience managing a compliance inventory, regulatory obligations framework, or GRC program at a senior level within a multi-jurisdictional environment
  • Proven track record of constructing complex compliance matrices, mapping internal controls to international laws, supervising audit registers, and managing institutional RFI mechanisms

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Law, Public Policy, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related structured analytical discipline
  • Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), or a Master's degree in Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, or Business Administration
  • Professional designations such as Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or equivalent GRC-related credentials
  • Deep experience working within a high-growth cross-border payments company, top-tier neobank, or API-driven digital platform handling high volumes of regulated transactions
  • Direct experience selecting, deploying, or configuring institutional Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software systems to automate policy mapping and issue remediation workflows
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  • All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com http://airwallex.com email address.
  • Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com http://careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.

Company info

  • We work at the intersection of law, regulation, risk, and business execution, partnering closely with teams across the company to navigate complexity, enable growth, and protect the trust our customers, partners, and regulators place in us.

Equal opportunity

  • Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
  • We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.
  • We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions.
  • If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • 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.
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