# Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Airwallex is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence to lead proactive, complex, and high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across its global financial infrastructure.

The successful candidate will act as an investigative subject-matter expert and operational lead, helping identify and mitigate risks across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX, and embedded finance.

Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end investigations into complex financial crime typologies involving cross-border payment flows, multi-currency corporate accounts, complex ownership structures, and high-risk corridors.

- Oversee case intake, triage, prioritization, and assignment for special investigations.

- Lead financial-crime-related internal fraud and insider-threat investigations.

- Analyze layered international transactions to trace illicit fund movements and identify beneficial owners.

- Provide investigative analysis and recommendations for SAR/STR cases.

- Translate investigative findings into actionable feedback for Risk, Data, and Engineering teams.

- Develop and maintain financial-crime typologies, investigative intelligence, and threat assessments.

- Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal, and regional MLROs to address systemic threats.

- Build and maintain investigative playbooks, analysis, and case documentation standards.

- Support internal audits, independent reviews, and regulatory inquiries.

- Provide guidance, peer reviews, and typology training to investigators and analysts.

The ideal candidate will have:

- 8+ years of experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence, or special investigations.

- Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, business payment flows, and corporate entity structures.

- Proven track record of conducting complex financial crime investigations.

- Solid working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks.

- Strong analytical mindset and exceptional written communication skills.

- Ability to work in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment.

Preferred qualifications include:

- Professional certification such as CAMS, CFE, or an equivalent ICA diploma.

- Practical experience with data querying and visualization tools.

- Experience investigating financial crime risks in digital assets or crypto rails.

## Skills

### Required
- AML/CFT investigations
- financial intelligence
- cross-border payments
- corporate accounts
- cards
- FX
- embedded finance
- transaction monitoring
- risk mitigation

### Nice to have
- CAMS
- CFE
- ICA diploma
- data querying
- visualization tools
- digital assets
- crypto rails

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