Senior Compliance Manager, MLRO, Hong Kong

3 days ago

Hong Kong, Central and Western District, Hong Kong SAR China Airwallex Full time
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 100,000 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 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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.

About the team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We're passionate about safeguarding Airwallex's operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

What you'll do

Our Senior Compliance Manager, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), Hong Kong role is a vital member of an innovative global compliance team. As a central part of this team, you will be consistently driving forward and embedding Airwallex's compliance program to safeguard our business as we continue to reach our growth objectives.

At Airwallex, we see Compliance as a service to our business teams and our customers, and we are excited about collaborating and enabling our teams to succeed. This person will partner with internal teams to design, develop, implement and monitor screening and monitoring rules detecting and mitigating AML and other financial crime-related risks. The role supports regulatory obligations for the Hong Kong market.

Reporting directly to the Regional Director of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), this is a great opportunity to influence our growth story. You will be responsible for driving the development, launch, and management of several key compliance programs whilst adding value to developing compliance initiatives.

This role is based in Hong Kong.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and develop the FCC compliance framework building on the Airwallex global FCC framework and aligning with the local regulatory requirements applicable to Money Services Operators, SFC-Licensed Corporations and Stored Value Facility Licensees.
  • Manage and set departmental and individual targets for the FCC Team.
  • Provide day-to-day management and execution of Airwallex's AML regulatory interactions, examinations, and ad-hoc requests.
  • Represent Airwallex with critical external stakeholders, including regulators and financial partners.
  • Responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of an effective tactical, strategic, and updated anti-money laundering program.
  • Manage the day-to-day BAU tasks including KYC profile approval, name screening alert clearance, and investigation in transaction monitoring with filing Suspicious Matter Reports if necessary.
  • Provide advice and support to the Commercial and Operations team on various FCC matters.
  • Work closely with the Financial Partnership team to deal with any potential enquiries from external parties including banking partners and scheme partners.
  • Develop and manage a regular monitoring and reporting process to inform senior management, the audit committee and the board as necessary and required.
  • Design and execute reports to measure success and performance of AML Compliance initiatives, operations, critical metrics, and Key Risk Indicators.
  • Coordinate with various stakeholders to address issues raised in internal audit reports, self-assessments, compliance reviews, or regulator's examination of AML policy.
  • Drive internal controls design and monitoring to support Compliance Operational policy and procedures.
  • Any ad-hoc tasks required.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Extensive FCC work experience (8 years or above) in sizable financial institutions in Hong Kong (experience as MLRO is a plus).
  • Strong understanding and knowledge in payment industry preferred.
  • Ability to multitask effortlessly and handle challenging priorities under deadlines.
  • Credible stakeholder engagement and management skills to align with our organisational values and behaviours.
  • Ability to work under pressure.
Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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