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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 global FP&A: own integrated P&L budgeting, reporting and forecasting. Partner with divisional leaders to build budgets and provide actionable analytics (LTV/CAC, contribution margin). Build data and AI foundations, oversee FP&A tools, automate workflows, and hire/develop the FP&A team.

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 evolve Airwallex's global operational risk framework and programs, overseeing event/loss management, controls, resilience, fraud governance, and third-party risk. Partner with senior stakeholders to drive automated, data-driven controls, enforce 2LoD oversight, manage incidents, and produce regulator-quality reporting to ensure scalable, resilient operations across products and regions.

Lead and scale a global FCC monitoring and testing program to validate AML, sanctions, and KYC/KYB controls. Build risk-based testing methodologies, KPIs, and continuous data-driven assurance. Oversee validation of system-encoded controls, translate findings into executive reporting, drive remediation, and represent the function in audits and regulatory examinations.

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 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.