
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2015
đź’ł Fintech
đź’¸ 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.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏰ Full Time
đźź Senior
đźš” Compliance
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1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2015
đź’ł Fintech
đź’¸ 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.
• Act as the in-region Sanctions Subject Matter Expert and second-line escalation point for highly complex and ambiguous sanctions matches, special investigations, and potential block-and-reject cases • Own regional L3 sanctions case investigation and decisioning • Assess applicable reporting, disclosure, and recordkeeping obligations • Provide risk-based sanctions advice on cross-border payment flows, indirect exposure, jurisdictional conflicts, products and services, customer segments, commercial transactions, and geographic expansion • Maintain regional sanctions operational procedures and provide second-line oversight of first-line sanctions controls • Align regional procedures with the Global Sanctions Policy and applicable local requirements • Liaise with global teams on product-specific controls and screening technologies • Use in-region expertise and historical L3 escalations to optimize sanctions controls and align with organizational risk appetite • Monitor US, regional, and international sanctions and export-control developments, geopolitical events, and regulatory expectations • Assess impacts on customers, products, jurisdictions, lists, systems, procedures, and risk appetite • Develop and deliver training and ongoing guidance for L2 sanctions reviewers, KYC, Operations, and other stakeholders • Lead responses to banking partners and other external stakeholders on sanctions inquiries and due diligence reviews
• 7–10 years of relevant experience, preferably at a fintech, payments company, or large financial institution specializing in sanctions • Experience managing sanctions alerts at the L3 level • Experience recommending blocking/freezing transactions, assessing sanctions-related licenses and transactional permissibility, and managing reporting • Experience assessing sanctions frameworks and recommending enhancements, including designing and scaling sanctions programs • Understanding of in-region sanctions regulations and industry best practices for economic sanctions • Knowledge of US sanctions in addition to in-region expertise is strongly preferred • Experience operationalizing sanctions controls with technology teams • Experience interacting with or supporting engagement with regulators or financial institution partners on sanctions matters • Expert knowledge of financial and trade sanctions within the European Union framework • Expert knowledge of UK regulations administered by OFSI and corresponding export control bodies • Strong understanding of the EU/UK Blocking Statute and conflicting regulatory obligations within European jurisdictions and the UK
• No specific benefits, perks, or compensation extras are stated in the posting • Equal opportunity employer • Disability or special-needs accommodations available upon request
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