Manager, Regulatory Operations, ANZ

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 250000 businesses worldwide including Brex Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts payments spend management and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne we have a team of over 2300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

About the team

The Regulatory & Compliance team helps Airwallex grow responsibly as a global financial platform. We work at the intersection of law regulation risk and business execution partnering closely with teams across the company to navigate complexity enable growth and protect the trust our customers partners and regulators place in us. Its a team for people who are thoughtful practical and energized by solving hard problems in a fast-moving highly regulated environment.

What youll do

As Manager Regulatory Operations ANZ you will build and run the engine that turns complex regulatory and partner obligations into real tested and wellevidenced controls across our ANZlicensed entities and products. You will sit within Regulatory Legal & Compliance and work closely with Regulatory Compliance Regulatory Legal Risk Product Operations Finance and external financial partners to strengthen a control environment that is practical scalable and regulatorready. This role is handson and executionfocused: you will not just interpret rules you will design implement and continuously improve the controls documentation and reporting that demonstrate we are meeting our obligations daytoday.

This role is based in Australia.

Responsibilities:

• Identify interpret and operationalize regulatory and partner obligations across ANZ jurisdictions products and licensed entities and translate those obligations into clear governance controls and execution requirements.

• Manage the endtoend design of key regulatory and partner controls through implementation partnering with Product Operations Engineering Risk and Regulatory Compliance to embed controls into real workflows and systems.

• Build and maintain regulator and partnerready documentation for your control scope including obligation mappings control descriptions RACIs testing approaches evidence standards and remediation tracking.

• Engage with third parties such as regulators auditors and financial partners in connection with inquiries relating to controls confidently explaining our obligations our control architecture and how specific controls operate in practice.

• Support regulatory exams audits inspections RFIs and related supervisory engagements in ANZ by coordinating responses curating consistent evidence packages maintaining examready documentation and partnering with Regulatory Compliance and Regulatory Legal.

• Support the governance process for material changes to controls ensuring that relevant obligation owners and stakeholders across Product Operations Engineering and Compliance are notified and aligned before changes to shared controls are implemented and that the obligations register reflects the updated control design.

• Contribute to the design and operation of regional regulatory reporting and obligations governance ensuring that what must be reported by whom when and from which systems is clearly defined and appropriately controlled.

• Identify gaps inconsistencies or duplication in obligations controls and evidence across ANZ and drive pragmatic remediation or uplift plans that balance regulatory expectations partner requirements and business impact.

• Use and contribute to the teams GRC tooling and compliance dashboards maintaining accurate and current records of ANZ obligations controls evidence and open issues within the central system and supporting the transition towards an AI Native GRC tooling.

Who you are

Were looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in regulatory operations regulatory compliance internal audit risk management or a similar discipline within a fastgrowing tech startup and/or financial services payments or fintech company.

• Proven experience translating legal regulatory or partner requirements into operational controls procedures and testing or assurance activities not just policy drafting.

• Direct involvement in supporting regulatory exams audits inspections RFIs or partner duediligence reviews with clear personal ownership for planning coordination documentation or remediation workstreams.

• Strong project management skills with a track record of driving crossfunctional control or reporting initiatives to completion across Product Operations Engineering Legal Compliance and Risk.

• Excellent analytical and writing skills with the ability to turn complex regulatory concepts into clear concise control requirements and examready materials.

• Comfort operating in a fastmoving highstandards environment with evolving priorities and meaningful crossfunctional ownership consistent with Airwallexs broader operating model.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with payments emoney card issuing or acquiring treasury embedded finance or other multijurisdiction fintech business models.

• Prior exposure to ANZ regulators or regulatory frameworks (for example MAS HKMA AUSTRAC SFC or local central banks) and to regional bank or card scheme partners on control or reporting topics.

• Experience building or enhancing obligations registers controls libraries regulatory reporting operating models or similar secondline compliance infrastructure.

• Familiarity with GRC or similar tooling to manage obligations controls issues and evidence at scale.

• Relevant professional certifications (such as CAMS CRCM CIA CISA) or formal legal / compliancerelated education.

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Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.

Required Experience:

Manager