Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations – Intelligence

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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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

• Lead proactive, complex and high-risk AML and financial crime investigations across Airwallex’s global financial infrastructure • Act as investigative subject-matter expert and operational lead across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX and embedded finance • Oversee case intake, triage, prioritisation and assignment for special investigations • Lead internal fraud and insider-threat investigations involving employees or insiders • Partner with Fraud, Infosec, People/HR, Employment Legal and senior management • Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes and alternative payment methods • Provide investigative analysis, suspect and typology recommendations, quality assurance and escalation support for SAR/STR cases • Translate investigative findings into feedback for Risk, Data and Engineering teams to improve monitoring rules, detection models and controls • Develop and maintain financial-crime typologies, investigative intelligence and threat assessments • Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal and regional MLROs on risk mitigation • Build and maintain investigative playbooks, case documentation standards and quality-assurance frameworks • Support internal audits, independent reviews and regulatory inquiries • Provide day-to-day guidance, peer reviews and typology training to investigators and analysts

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of dedicated experience in AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence or special investigations within cross-border payments, global fintech, merchant acquiring or international corporate and commercial banking • Deep understanding of cross-border payment mechanisms, including SWIFT, local ACH and clearing schemes, FX, business payment flows, merchant acquiring, and corporate entity structures • Knowledge of complex shareholding, shell companies and beneficial ownership • Proven ability to independently conduct and document complex, multi-layered financial crime investigations from initiation through findings, risk recommendations and support to MLRO-led regulatory reporting • Working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks, including FATF recommendations, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC, MAS and relevant local requirements • Strong analytical mindset and experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large transactional and customer datasets • Exceptional written communication skills demonstrated through investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting • Ability to articulate complex financial crime risks to non-compliance stakeholders, including Product and Engineering • Ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines in a high-growth fintech environment • Professional certification such as CAMS, CFE or equivalent ICA diploma is preferred, not mandatory • Practical experience with SQL, Python, Tableau or network/link analysis software is preferred • Experience with digital assets, crypto rails or embedded finance/BaaS integrations is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Disability or special-needs accommodation available • Remote work arrangement