Senior Director, Global Controls and Obligations Management

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 200,000 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 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 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. 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 Regulatory & Compliance team helps Airwallex grow responsibly as a global financial platform. We work at the intersection of law, regulation, risk, and business execution, partnering closely with teams across the company to navigate complexity, enable growth, and protect the trust our customers, partners, and regulators place in us. It’s a team for people who are thoughtful, practical, and energized by solving hard problems in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment.

What you'll do

This is a senior global leadership role responsible for building and scaling Airwallex’s controls and obligations management framework across licensed entities, products, and jurisdictions. You will translate regulatory requirements into clear control requirements, testing strategies, reporting processes, and exam-ready documentation. You will work closely with Regulatory Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk, Financial Crime Compliance, Product, Operations, Finance, and external partners to strengthen a control environment that is practical, scalable, and regulator-ready. Airwallex is continuing to invest in stronger second line maturity, regulatory depth, and global compliance infrastructure as the business scales.

This role is based in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the global framework for identifying, interpreting, and operationalising regulatory and partner obligations across jurisdictions, products, and licensed entities, and translate those obligations into clear governance, controls, and execution requirements.

• Manage the design of key controls through implementation, and build a scalable controls testing program that defines methodology, evidence standards, issue identification, remediation tracking, and reporting.

• Engage with third parties, including auditors, consultants, service providers, and external partners, on control design, testing, reporting dependencies, and oversight expectations.

• Design and deliver a global regulatory reporting governance framework, including ownership models, documentation standards, control checks, escalation paths, and change management.

• Support regulatory exams, audits, inspections, RFIs, and related supervisory engagements by coordinating responses, maintaining regulator-ready documentation, and partnering with Regulatory Compliance, which serves as Airwallex’s primary point of contact with regulators, and Regulatory Legal.

• Maintain and continuously improve the obligations and controls register and the supporting knowledge base so teams can clearly understand what is required, who owns it, how it is implemented, and how compliance is evidenced.

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, setting a high bar for judgment, rigor, accountability, and cross-functional partnership.

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