Description
Compensation
The base salary range for this role is $150K - $220K. The actual compensation offered will depend on multiple factors, including experience, skills, and geographic location.
About Airwallex
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.
About the team
The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex safeguards operations, fosters a culture of compliance, and ensures integrity in navigating the global financial landscape.
What you'll do
You will be primarily responsible for supporting regulatory matters across the Americas region, focusing on advising on regulatory issues relating to payments and financial services.
Responsibilities:
- Support regulatory legal matters relating to Airwallex’s business across the Americas
- Research and summarize developments in payments and financial services regulation
- Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams on regulatory questions
- Support Product, Strategy, Management and Commercial teams on new market entry and regulatory mapping
- Analyze payment structures and identify applicable licensing and regulatory requirements
- Provide clear, practical legal guidance and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders
- Support the management of external legal counsel and consultants
- Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses in relevant Americas jurisdictions
- Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into practical guidance
- Leverage AI and other tooling to improve the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team
- Contribute to government-relations and policy work
Who you are
Minimum qualifications:
- Qualified lawyer with 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience
- Regulatory, financial-services or fintech experience
- Exposure to payments, money transmission, e-money, FX, remittances, card issuing, digital financial services or another closely related regulatory area
- Working understanding of the US financial-services regulatory environment
- Ability to research complex legal and regulatory questions and translate findings into clear, practical advice
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills
- Proactive, organized and ownership-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience supporting state money-transmitter licensing applications
- Experience advising on consumer or commercial financial-services products
- Experience supporting new-market expansion or regulatory analysis for new products and features
- Experience working with US federal or state regulators
- Familiarity with Canadian payments or money-services-business regulation
- Experience using or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools