Senior Associate, EMEA FCC Monitoring, Testing

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Airwallex

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

Fintech • Finance • Payments

Airwallex is a fintech company that provides leading technology solutions to manage global payments, treasury, and financial operations for businesses. It offers a comprehensive suite of financial services including business accounts, spend management tools, payment solutions, and embedded finance components to build custom financial products. Airwallex's platform supports multi-currency transactions, interbank FX rates, and global transfers, aiming to simplify financial operations and unlock growth opportunities for over 150,000 businesses worldwide. The company is committed to providing safe, reliable, and compliant financial services with a strong technological infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Shape and scale Airwallex’s global financial crime compliance monitoring and testing framework • Independently validate the design and operating effectiveness of AML, Sanctions, and KYC/KYB controls across production environments • Establish monitoring frameworks, KPIs, and operating-effectiveness metrics for EMEA • Contribute to strategic development, execution, and continuous evolution of the Global FCC Monitoring & Testing Programme • Develop risk-based testing methodologies and annual plans for independent second-line assurance • Design testing frameworks covering customer onboarding, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting workflows • Advance continuous, data-enabled assurance using data analytics, system logs, and automated testing scripts • Validate system-encoded controls, including transaction monitoring thresholds, screening logic, and customer risk-rating models • Report testing outcomes and thematic trends to executive leadership and governance forums • Track root-cause remediation of control deficiencies • Represent FCC monitoring and testing during regulatory examinations, internal or external audits, and banking partner reviews • Collaborate with FCC, Product, Engineering, Operations, and regional leadership across regions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related quantitative/analytical discipline • CAMS certification or an ICA International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (or equivalent professional credential) • 7+ years of experience within FCC quality assurance, compliance monitoring, internal audit, or a related second/third-line control function inside a fintech, payments, or highly regulated banking environment • Strong technical knowledge of financial crime controls across transaction monitoring, sanctions/PEP screening, customer due diligence, and digital KYC/KYB workflows • Proven mastery of risk-based testing methodologies, including scoping, sampling, design and operating effectiveness assessments, issue writing, and remediation validation • Strong fintech and platforms experience, including exposure to cloud-native, API-driven, high-growth global environments with significant cross-border transaction volume • Strong data literacy, including comfort using SQL, Python, BI dashboards, or automated tools to support continuous control validation and population-based testing • Experience partnering directly with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to validate automated rules, model-driven controls, and rapid deployments within an agile product lifecycle • Excellent written communication and stakeholder management skills • Preferred: Advanced degree such as an MBA, Master’s in Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field • Preferred: Professional assurance or audit certifications such as CAMS-Audit, CISA, or CIA

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Equal opportunity employment • Disability or special-needs accommodation available • Professional development is not explicitly stated • No bonus, equity, insurance, retirement, or paid-time-off benefits are specified