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Lead and scale global first-line financial crime risk operations, overseeing transaction monitoring, investigations, sanctions screening and fraud operations. Build and manage multi-country teams, design SOPs and control frameworks, ensure audit-ready documentation, partner with 2LOD, Regulatory, Legal and Product, drive automation and data-driven improvements, and support regulatory engagements and escalations.

Build and implement Airwallex's global social impact strategy; drive platform adoption among social enterprises, nonprofits, and multilaterals; launch and scale impact initiatives; cultivate external partnerships; support ESG, giving, volunteering, and data-for-good programs; lead communications and stakeholder engagement.

Design and build multi-tenant, high-scale embedded finance infrastructure. Own cross-domain features, architect enterprise integrations, lead multi-team initiatives, and collaborate with Product, Design, Compliance, and Sales to deliver production-grade, scalable systems.

Lead and manage global payroll operations and systems, ensuring accurate payroll processing, compliance, reconciliations, and reporting. Drive payroll system implementations and automations, resolve employee payroll queries, partner with HR, Legal and Finance on entity setups and international expansion, and develop payroll process documentation and improvements.

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 the global obligations management function: build and maintain a centralized obligations register, RFI knowledge base, and audit register. Map regulatory and partner requirements to controls, ensure testability and traceability, drive remediation lifecycle, partner with regional legal and compliance teams, and scale an obligations team while implementing enterprise GRC tooling and automated compliance dashboards.

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 global design, governance, and deployment of quantitative financial crime detection models and risk-rating engines. Translate regulatory requirements into algorithmic controls, calibrate monitoring and screening thresholds, validate models, and partner with Product, Engineering, and investigations teams to minimize false positives while maintaining detection performance. Represent model logic and tuning to regulators and banking partners.

Lead and scale Airwallex's global AML and sanctions policy, governance, and risk framework. Define risk appetite, enterprise risk assessments, data-driven thresholds, and oversight of automated compliance controls. Drive regulatory exam defense, executive risk reporting, cross-functional embedding of controls with Product/Data/Engineering, and build a global second-line team of compliance attorneys, modelers, and policy leads.

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.