Senior Manager, Financial Crime Operations, GC & SEA

What You'll Do

As our Fincrime Ops Senior Manager in GC and SEA, you will be responsible for our first-line financial crime operations team. This team leader is expected to drive standards in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening through TM risk assessment completion, rule tuning, segmentation, and profiling to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience across all of Airwallex’s product suite, all while protecting Airwallex from financial and reputational risk. We expect you to have strong attention to detail and to develop and apply a comprehensive understanding of AML/CTF related functions.

You Are:

A natural leader, with strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you

Process-driven, ensuring we create procedures to build efficient and well-documented workflows

A team player who can also work independently

A master prioritiser with the ability to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task

You have an investigative and curious nature that allows you to know when to dive deeper to get to the bottom of a problem

You ask the right questions and make risk-based decisions

This role is based onsite in our Singapore office.

Responsibilities:

Understand the regulatory landscape and compliance requirements to further improve our investigations and rules

Analyse and investigate patterns and trends

Manage SLAs and deadlines to meet team and company goals

Act as the point of escalation and responsible for stakeholder management

Conduct investigations on suspicious transactions

Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures

Take a data driven approach to problem solving

Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests, including deep dives on issues

Lead and inspire a team of transaction monitoring analysts, including both local and remote team members

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in the relevant field

5+ years of compliance experience working in a transaction monitoring function, financial crime management, AML investigations, or other relevant experience

AICB, CAMS or CFE certifications strongly preferred

Process-oriented experience requiring meticulous attention to detail and deep investigative skills with well-honed written and verbal communications

Fintech experience strongly preferred

Proven track record of managing performance against objective targets and using data and analytics to make decisions

Prior leadership experience in managing a team of analysts is a plus

Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL preferred

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Equal opportunity

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