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Lead and scale Airwallex's global second-line risk management function. Build frameworks, governance, metrics, and monitoring; partner with cross-functional teams and executives to define risk appetite, mitigate enterprise risks (fraud, financial crime, counterparty, operational), embed risk culture, and recruit and develop a global risk team to support growth across products and markets.

Lead Airwallex's global second-line Financial Risk function, setting frameworks and guardrails across credit, liquidity, capital, market, and model risk. Oversee credit underwriting standards, liquidity and capital resilience, FX and market risk, model governance and validation, and build a high-performing team advising senior management and regulators.

Lead Airwallex's global second-line Financial Risk function across credit, liquidity, capital, market, and model risk. Set frameworks, policies, limits, and governance; challenge first-line decisions; oversee stress testing, ICAAP/ILAAP, liquidity resilience, FX/market hedging, and model governance. Build and lead a global team and advise senior management, boards, and regulators.

Lead and scale enterprise risk management across US and EMEA, translating risk appetite into governance, reporting, and decision-useful insights. Oversee risk-informed change governance, crisis management, and build a global second-line team while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to enable responsible growth.

Lead and own global regulatory reporting across jurisdictions, drive automated reporting platform enhancements, maintain controls and evidence, manage submissions and issue remediation, assess regulatory change impacts, and lead a cross-functional team to ensure data integrity, audit readiness, and timely compliant reporting.

Build and operate UK safeguarding and reconciliation frameworks for payment flows; ensure client funds protection and regulatory compliance (EMRs 2011, PSRs 2017). Design controls, daily safeguarding operations, reconciliations, incident reporting, and audit readiness. Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance and Treasury to deliver tooling, dashboards, and process improvements using complex transactional data.

Lead and build a global second-line risk assurance program for Airwallex, designing risk-based monitoring and testing frameworks, moving to continuous data-enabled control validation, overseeing testing across financial, operational, technology, and regulatory risks, managing remediation and reporting to senior leadership, maintaining regulator- and audit-ready evidence, and representing the firm in regulatory exams and partner reviews while building a high-performing global assurance team.

Lead strategic financial planning, forecasting, capital allocation, and performance analysis. Produce executive and board materials, influence cross-functional initiatives, mentor Strategic Finance team members, and improve finance systems and decision frameworks for a global scaling company.

Lead UK regulatory engagement and licensing activities, maintain regulatory reporting and compliance programs, advise on FCA-related change, manage inspections and exams, deliver monitoring and training, and guide first-line teams on conduct, Consumer Duty, and operationalising compliance for payments and e-money products.