Jobs at Airwallex

Serves as the Group CFO’s right hand across Finance, People & Talent, and Operations. Runs executive operating cadences, drives OKRs and business reviews, leads strategic cross-functional initiatives such as organizational changes and M&A integration, prepares Board and investor materials, and develops CFO-led events and communities for finance leaders.

Lead Airwallex’s global corporate development and investor relations strategy. Responsibilities include identifying and executing M&A transactions, building investor relationships, preparing investor materials, supporting fundraising and strategic finance initiatives, and partnering with senior cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires strong financial modeling, analytical, communication, and deal execution skills, with 10+ years of relevant experience.

Own complex enterprise sales cycles for Airwallex’s embedded finance platform, from prospecting and discovery through negotiation, contract signature, and launch. Build relationships with SaaS companies, marketplaces, fintechs, and platforms; understand business models, architectures, and money flows; and develop commercial propositions. Partner with SDRs, Solutions Engineering, Product, Legal, Risk, Operations, and Account Management to deliver technical workshops, close opportunities, and support implementation handoffs.

Drive architecture and implementation of scalable, multi-tenant embedded finance infrastructure using React and TypeScript. Own cross-domain features, design integrations for enterprise customers, collaborate with Product/Design/Compliance/Sales, and optimize for performance, maintainability, and production excellence to support high-scale fintech customers.

Lead EMEA revenue enablement initiatives that improve commercial execution, onboarding, product training, coaching, content, AI workflows, and sales productivity. Partner with commercial and revenue strategy leaders to accelerate deal velocity and time-to-productivity, develop sellers and managers, strengthen sales operating rhythms, and use funnel data to optimize programs. The role requires managing cross-functional initiatives, building scalable enablement systems, and supporting teams across multiple countries.

Own consolidated P&L planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and scenario analysis. Partner with corporate functions on headcount, spending, investment decisions, and operating leverage. Lead performance reviews, identify risks and opportunities, improve FP&A processes and tools, and translate complex financial analysis into recommendations for senior leaders. The role is hands-on and based in London three days per week.

Lead Airwallex’s global market expansion strategy and execution, overseeing market evaluation, regulatory licensing, entity formation, product localization, operational readiness, and commercial launch. Manage a portfolio of cross-functional initiatives, lead a lean team, influence executives, build relationships with regulators and financial partners, and develop scalable expansion frameworks. The role also supports broader CEO Office priorities and uses AI and automation to improve expansion intelligence and coordination.

Lead end-to-end development of 0-to-1 fintech products: partner with executives, architect pragmatic full‑stack solutions, evaluate and implement AI capabilities, prototype rapidly, and bootstrap scalable product foundations for incubation.

Lead and scale a second-line technology risk assurance function for a regulated fintech. Manage assurance across IT controls, cloud infrastructure, IAM, CI/CD, APIs, databases, business continuity, and AI systems. Build automated control testing and remediation workflows using Python, SQL, AI agents, and continuous monitoring. Lead a technical assurance team, engage auditors and regulators, and communicate technology risk to engineering leaders, executives, and board-level committees.

Lead and scale enterprise risk management across the US and EMEA for a global fintech. Responsibilities include developing risk architecture, appetite and governance frameworks; translating risk data for executives and Board committees; overseeing risk governance for products, markets and organizational changes; strengthening crisis management; promoting risk culture; and leading a global second-line risk team.

Leads the Payments Platform engineering organization, owning strategy, architecture, roadmap, delivery, and operational health for global payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation, and partner integrations. Manages Engineering Managers and senior technical talent, guides scalable and reliable distributed-system architecture, and partners with Product, Commercial, Risk, Compliance, and regional engineering leaders to support growth and regulatory requirements.

Lead Airwallex’s global second-line Transaction Monitoring strategy, governance, oversight, and modernization. The role manages regional reporting and financial intelligence teams, challenges first-line controls, oversees monitoring rules and model effectiveness, and advances AI-driven detection and alert triage. Responsibilities include complex financial crime escalations, regulatory examinations, audit coordination, partner-bank inquiries, and collaboration with Product, Data Science, Engineering, Model Risk, Quantitative teams, and Audit across global jurisdictions.

Leads Airwallex’s global sanctions compliance strategy, second-line governance, screening oversight, regulatory engagement, and technology modernization. The role manages complex sanctions escalations, regulatory examinations, disclosures, geopolitical risk monitoring, and AI-enabled screening initiatives across global payment operations. It also reports programme risk to executives and the board while scaling a cross-regional sanctions team.

Lead strategic and operational data science through quantitative analysis, forecasting, experimentation, and data storytelling. Mentor data scientists, advise cross-functional leaders, define metrics and forecasts, and build scalable decision-support systems. The role also contributes to AI and machine-learning systems that optimize product behavior, pricing, risk, allocation, and customer experiences, with an emphasis on rigorous validation, governance, and measurable outcomes.

Leads second-line oversight of global KYC, Enhanced Due Diligence, periodic reviews, and customer risk acceptance. Owns KYC policies, governance, quality assurance, regulatory readiness, and risk-based decision-making. Partners with Operations, Sales, Product, Data, and Engineering to improve controls and automate compliance workflows. Advises senior stakeholders on complex customers and business models while managing regulatory engagement and developing scalable global financial crime compliance frameworks.

Lead end-to-end design and rapid delivery of 0-to-1 fintech products with the Founders' Lab. Collaborate with executive leadership to define product direction, build MVPs, deploy to live users, iterate quickly, and balance rapid experimentation with sound backend architecture and occasional frontend/API work. Operate as a product-minded senior engineer in high-ambiguity, fast-paced environments.

Leads strategic regulatory programs across EMEA, coordinating Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Product, Engineering, Finance, and other teams. Establishes governance, plans, milestones, metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting; supports examinations, audits, inspections, and supervisory engagements. Identifies delivery risks and operational bottlenecks, improves accountability and scalability, and drives regulatory priorities through implementation and measurable outcomes.

Develop and refine product positioning, messaging, and value propositions for Airwallex across EMEA. Lead product launches and go-to-market strategies, enable sales and marketing teams, deliver consistent customer experiences across channels, and use customer and market insights to guide decisions. Collaborate cross-functionally with product, sales, operations, marketing, and regional teams to increase product adoption and impact.

The Director will work in the CEO Office on company-critical strategic and operational initiatives, including global expansion, product scaling, regulatory infrastructure, organizational effectiveness, commercial acceleration, M&A, and AI transformation. The role frames complex problems, aligns senior stakeholders, and drives cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Own the full sales cycle for partner-referred SME customers in the UK, from qualification and consultative discovery through negotiation, closing, and initial onboarding. Build strong relationships with referral and ecosystem partners, sell financial solutions including multi-currency accounts, payments, FX, treasury, and corporate cards, achieve revenue targets, and collaborate with legal, risk, compliance, onboarding, and revenue operations teams.