Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence to lead complex anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across Airwallex's global financial infrastructure.

The successful candidate will own end-to-end investigations involving complex payment flows, improve the handling of special investigations, investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters, analyse layered international transactions, and translate investigative findings into improvements for transaction monitoring rules and financial-crime controls.

This is a remote role based in Dallas, Texas, with a salary range of $128K - $210K.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations
• Own end-to-end investigations involving complex payment flows, multi-currency accounts, ownership structures, cross-product risks, KYB/UBO considerations and high-risk corridors
• Improve the handling of special investigations by overseeing case intake, triage, prioritisation and assignment
• Investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters involving fraud, collusion, misuse of access or other conduct with a financial-crime nexus
• Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes and alternative payment methods
• Translate investigative findings into improvements for transaction monitoring rules, automated detection models, investigative playbooks, typologies, training and broader financial-crime controls
• Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal, Risk, Data, Engineering and regional MLROs to address systemic threats, respond to audits and regulatory inquiries, and strengthen investigative standards across the Financial Crime Compliance team

Requirements:

• 8+ years of dedicated experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence or special investigations
• Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, and FX
• Proven track record of independently conducting and documenting complex, multi-layered financial crime investigations
• Solid working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks
• Strong analytical mindset, with experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large datasets of transactional and customer data
• Exceptional written communication skills
• Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment

Preferred:

• Professional certification such as CAMS, CFE or an equivalent ICA diploma
• Practical experience with data querying and visualisation tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau or network/link analysis software
• Experience investigating financial crime risks in digital assets or crypto rails, or embedded finance/BaaS integrations