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