Associate Director, Transaction Monitoring at Airwallex (UK) Limited
Airwallex (UK) Limited · UK - London {'postalAddress': {'addressRegion': 'London', 'addressCountry': 'Un
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- Licensed sponsor: Airwallex (UK) Limited
Employer on register 23 October 2026
From the advert
ABOUT AIRWALLEX
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.
We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.
HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT
Airwallex is strengthening its global second-line Transaction Monitoring capability across products, payment rails and jurisdictions. You'll set the governance, challenge and modernisation agenda for a high-volume, global financial crime environment.
- Own Airwallex’s global second-line Transaction Monitoring strategy, governance framework and policy standards across products, payment rails, customer base and jurisdictions.
- Drive independent 2LOD challenge and oversight of 1LOD Transaction Monitoring teams, raising investigative rigour, alert disposition quality and consistency in suspicious activity detection.
- Oversee second line regional SAR/STR/SMR reporting teams in performance of L3 review and preparation of suspicious activity reports according to relevant requirements, in coordination with regional and local MLROs.
- Oversee the second line global Financial Intelligence Unit in performance of complex investigations, including…
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Associate Director, Transaction Monitoring at Airwallex (UK) Limited in UK - London {'postalAddress': {'addressRegion': 'London'. Airwallex (UK) Limited is listed on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (23 October 2026). Read the full job advert and apply on the employer's or job board's site. A sponsor licence means the employer is on the Home Office register. It does not mean this role is sponsored. Check with the employer. This is not immigration advice.
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