# Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Kuala Lumpur, Selangor
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Airwallex is looking for 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

- 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

- 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 and threat assessments

- Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding, and EDD teams to address systemic threats

- Build and maintain investigative playbooks and quality-assurance frameworks

- Support internal audits, independent reviews, and regulatory inquiries

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

Requirements:

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

- Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms and business payment flows

- 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

- Comfort working in a high-growth and rapidly evolving fintech environment

Preferred qualifications:

- 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
- transaction monitoring
- risk mitigation

### Nice to have
- data querying and visualization tools
- digital assets
- crypto rails

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