Senior Director of Risk Assurance (Monitoring Framework & Reporting)

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 250,000 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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.

About the team

The Global Risk team at Airwallex plays a critical role in enabling the company’s growth by building a strong, scalable, and globally consistent approach to risk management. The team works across the business to define risk appetite, develop frameworks and policies, support strategic decision-making, and provide oversight of key risks as Airwallex expands across products, markets, and regulatory environments. You’ll be part of a highly collaborative group that partners closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Financial Crime Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal teams to help Airwallex grow responsibly and with confidence. This is a team where you’ll tackle complex, high-impact challenges, shape how risk is managed at a global fintech, and help build the foundations for long-term scale.

What you’ll do

As Global Lead of Risk Assurance, you will build and lead Airwallex’s global second line risk assurance capability across the US and EMEA. This is a Senior Director role for someone who can combine the rigor of an elite auditor with the technical fluency needed to validate controls in a high-velocity fintech environment. You will act as Airwallex’s independent validator, ensuring that the controls the firm describes in policies, frameworks, and regulatory commitments are operating effectively in real systems, products, and workflows. You will work closely with Risk, Product, Engineering, Operations, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Treasury, and Legal to create a scalable assurance engine that strengthens decision-making, supports remediation, and stands up to regulatory and partner scrutiny. This role is based in the US or EMEA.

Responsibilities:

- Build and lead Airwallex’s Global Risk Monitoring & Testing Programme, including the methodology, annual plan, testing universe, reporting standards, and evidence requirements for independent second line assurance across the business.

- Design a risk-based assurance framework that determines how, when, and why key controls are independently validated across financial risk, operational and technology risk, and non-financial crime regulatory obligations.

- Drive the evolution from point-in-time manual testing to continuous, data-enabled control validation using system logs, automated data extracts, dashboards, and internal risk tooling, in line with market expectations for modern fintech monitoring and testing leadership roles.

- Ensure assurance coverage keeps pace with business change, including new products, new markets, new entities, infrastructure changes, and new payment or banking partner arrangements.

- Oversee independent testing of complex financial risk controls, including areas such as FX, liquidity, capital, treasury, model governance, underwriting, and limit management where relevant to the business and control environment.

- Direct deep-dive testing of operational and product controls across technology and business processes, including platform resiliency, incident governance, cloud and data controls, third-party dependencies, automated decisioning, and critical operational workflows.

- Lead testing of non-FCC regulatory and partner-related obli