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.