Compliance Manager & Deputy MLRO, HK

ABOUT AIRWALLEX Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. 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. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. ATTRIBUTES WE VALUE We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/us/operating-principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next. What you’ll do As Compliance Manager & Deputy MLRO – Financial Crime (AML/CTF), you will be a senior member of the Hong Kong Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team and a key second‑line advisor for Airwallex HK’s business. You will ensure broader financial crime compliance programs are in line with Hong Kong regulation and Airwallex’s global standards, with a particular focus on policies and procedures, STR reporting, and continuous improvement of FCC processes. You will partner cross‑functionally with Product, Commercial, Operations, Data, Legal and global FCC colleagues on high‑risk cases and strategic commercial opportunities, ensuring our controls effectively prevent, detect and report financial crime while enabling sustainable growth. This role is based in our Quarry Bay office in Hong Kong. Responsibilities: - Develop and maintain Hong Kong FCC policies, standards and detailed procedures (e.g. KYC/OCDD, EDD, name‑screening, transaction monitoring, STR reporting) and drive ongoing uplift of the local AML/CTF Program in line with the AMLO, AML Guideline and group‑wide standards. - Provide senior oversight of financial crime investigations arising from transaction monitoring alerts, name‑screening hits, internal referrals and external requests, ensuring robust documentation, clear rationales and appropriate escalation decisions. - Review and, where required, approve and submit Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs), and lead ongoing uplift of STR processes, including SLAs, workflow design, backlog management and quality assurance. - Lead or support cross‑division work on high‑risk customers, industries and complex commercial deals, providing clear, risk‑based FCC advice to Commercial, Product, Strategy, Operations and Legal, and helping structure controls that satisfy regulatory and banking‑partner expectations. - Partner with Product, Data and Operations to enhance Hong Kong transaction‑monitoring and name‑screening controls (rule design, typology coverage, escalation pathways), and to remediate issues identified through internal audit, independent reviews, external audits and internal issue registers. - Contribute to Hong Kong FCC governance and reporting by preparing high‑quality MI and commentary for lo