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More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.\nWe started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.\nWe're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read ouroperating principles to see it in full.\nAbout the team\nThe 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. It’s a team for people who are thoughtful, practical, and energized by solving hard problems in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment.\nWhat you'll do\nThis is a high-impact role within Airwallex’s Regulatory Legal & Compliance organisation. As Senior Manager, Regulatory Strategy & Operations, EMEA, you will help turn strategic regulatory priorities into coordinated, measurable delivery across our EMEA business.\nYou will work closely with Regulatory Operations, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Legal, Risk, Financial Crime Compliance, Product, Engineering, Finance and Operations. You will bring structure to complex initiatives, align stakeholders across functions and geographies, and help build the operating models, governance and execution discipline required to support Airwallex’s continued growth.\nResponsibilities:\nDrive the end-to-end delivery of strategic regulatory projects across EMEA, from defining the problem and developing the approach through implementation, tracking and benefits realisation.\n\nTranslate strategic priorities into clear plans, milestones, dependencies, decision points, owners and measurable outcomes.\n\nCoordinate cross-team and cross-functional initiatives involving Regulatory Operations, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Legal, Risk, Financial Crime Compliance, Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations and other business teams.\n\nEstablish effective governance for complex programmes, including steering committees, working groups, status reporting, risk management, issue escalation and decision tracking.\n\nWork with Regulatory Operations, Regulatory Compliance and Regulatory Legal to facilitate effective delivery of key regulatory programmes, while maintaining clear ownership across each function.\n\nHelp strengthen the interfaces between Regulatory Legal, which advises on the legal and regulatory requirements, Regulatory Compliance, which focuses on how Airwallex operationalises those requirements, and the first-line business teams responsible for execution.\n\nCoordinate preparation for regulatory examinations, inspections, audits, information requests and supervisory engagements, including timelines, evidence gathering, stakeholder alignment and follow-up actions.\n\nIdentify operational bottlenecks, duplicated activity, unclear accountabilities and delivery risks, and develop practical recommendations to improve efficiency, consistency and scalability.\n\nDefine and monitor programme metrics, delivery dashboards and management information that provide senior leaders with a clear view of progress, risks, dependencies and regulatory readiness.\n\nPrepare concise, decision-ready papers, presentations, dashboards and recommendations for senior leadership and governance forums.\n\nFacilitate senior stakeholder discussions, resolve competing priorities and ensure decisions result in clear action and follow-through.\n\nCapture lessons learned from regulatory programmes, examinations, audits, monitoring activity and regulatory interactions, and use them to improve future delivery.\n\nAct as a trusted strategic partner to the Regulatory leadership team, bringing structured problem-solving, sound judgment and a strong bias toward execution.\n\nWho you are\nWe're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.\nMinimum qualifications:\nSignificant experience leading complex strategic, regulatory, compliance, risk, transformation or operational programmes.\n\nDemonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives across a matrixed, international organisation.\n\nStrong project management skills, including programme planning, governance, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution and delivery tracking.\n\nProven ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop practical recommendations and translate strategy into executable plans.\n\nExperience working with senior stakeholders and influencing outcomes across functions and geographies.\n\nExcellent written and oral communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level materials and presenting complex issues clearly.\n\nStrong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to synthesise regulatory, operational and commercial information into clear decisions and actions.\n\nAbility to work independently, take ownership and maintain momentum across multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.\n\nA pragmatic, collaborative and low-ego approach to working with Legal, Compliance, Operations, Product, Engineering, Risk and other business teams.\n\nExperience in financial services, payments, fintech, technology or another highly regulated industry.\n\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience as a strategy or management consultant, or in a comparable internal strategy, transformation or programme management role.\n\nExperience delivering regulatory change, compliance transformation, licensing, market-entry, regulatory engagement or operating-model initiatives.\n\nFamiliarity with regulatory obligations, controls, regulatory reporting, governance, risk frameworks or GRC tooling.\n\nExperience working with Regulatory Operations, Regulatory Compliance and Regulatory Legal teams to deliver regulatory programmes.\n\nExperience supporting regulatory examinations, audits, information requests or supervisory engagements.\n\nExperience partnering with Product, Engineering, Data or Operations teams to improve processes or implement automation.\n\nExperience in a global payments, cross-border payments, electronic money, banking, digital assets or other financial services environment.\n\nRelevant qualification in business, finance, economics, law, risk, compliance, operations or project management.\n\nApplicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters\nTo protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.\nAirwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.\nEqual opportunity\nAirwallex 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. 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