Manager, Strategy & Operations, Regulatory & Compliance

Job Title: Manager, Strategy & Operations, Regulatory & Compliance

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses use us to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products.

How You'll Make Impact

As a Manager, Strategy & Operations, Regulatory & Compliance, you will own and drive high-priority strategic initiatives across Regulatory & Compliance. This includes global market expansion, licensing roadmaps, operating model redesign, and compliance transformation. You will turn complex regulatory and operational challenges into clear strategies, scalable frameworks, and practical execution plans. Your responsibilities include:

• Owning strategic initiatives across market expansion, regulatory licensing, operating model redesign, and compliance transformation.
• Driving scalable frameworks and execution plans that translate regulatory strategy into operational outcomes.
• Partnering with Product, Engineering, Risk, Legal, Finance, and Operations to identify opportunities for AI, automation, and technology-enabled process improvement.
• Building business cases and supporting the implementation of transformation initiatives, tracking performance, operational efficiency, and return on investment.

What We're Looking For

Essentials

• 6+ years of total professional experience, including at least 4 years at a top-tier strategy consulting firm.
• Experience delivering strategic projects within financial services, global payments, fintech, or technology platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguous questions into clear hypotheses, analytical frameworks, and operational roadmaps.
• Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities, with a track record of translating complex data into actionable executive insights.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive presence, with experience influencing senior stakeholders and matrixed global teams.
• A founder's mentality: you're equally comfortable debating high-level strategy with the C-suite and rolling up your sleeves to build a new process from scratch.

Preferred

• An advanced degree, such as an MBA or Master's in Finance, Economics, or Business.
• Deep familiarity with global payments infrastructure, cross-border flows, digital wallets, or multi-jurisdictional licensing regimes.
• Hands-on experience leading digital transformation, process automation, or AI implementation within financial operations or compliance.

Learn More About Your Team

The Regulatory & Compliance team builds the trust, discipline, and operational resilience required to scale a generational financial platform. As Airwallex grows across 30+ markets, this team turns regulatory complexity into strategic control. You'll lead compliance, enterprise risk, and regulatory engagement in a way that protects the business while letting it move with conviction.

Benefits and Perks

No specific benefits or perks were mentioned in the job posting.