Director, Sanctions 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 scaling a global sanctions programme across multiple jurisdictions, payment rails, and regulatory expectations. You'll provide the second-line leadership, challenge, and transformation needed to keep the programme effective, defensible, and ready for what comes next.
- Own and continuously elevate Airwallex’s global sanctions strategy, policy framework, and second-line governance across all operating jurisdictions, including OFAC, the EU, UK OFSI, the UN, MAS, HKMA, AUSTRAC, and local regimes.
- Provide independent second-line oversight and challenge of first-line customer, payment, and counterparty screening operations, setting global standards for investigative quality, threshold tuning, and risk-based decision-making.
- Act as the global second-line escalation point for complex sanctions nexus determinations, potential hits, voluntary self-disclosures, asset freezing, and high-risk commercial deal approvals.
- Partner…
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Summary
Director, Sanctions 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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