Global Lead – Financial Risk

🕒 May 21

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $200k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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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 Airwallex’s global second line Financial Risk function, setting the guardrails that allow the business to scale safely across products, markets, and balance sheet activities • Shape the global framework, challenge first line decisions, and advise senior leadership on the most material financial risk issues facing the company • Establish and lead Airwallex’s global Financial Risk framework across credit, liquidity, capital, market, and model risk, including the standards, policies, limits, and escalation paths that support safe product and business growth • Own second line credit risk oversight by defining global underwriting standards, credit limits, and governance, reviewing and challenging first line lending policies, and deciding on complex or escalated credit exposures and exceptions • Direct the firm’s liquidity, funding, and capital resilience agenda by overseeing intraday and structural liquidity risk, maintaining contingency funding readiness, designing stress testing scenarios, and supporting internal adequacy assessments and high-stakes regulatory submissions • Set and enforce global FX and market risk guardrails, and partner closely with Finance and Treasury leaders on exposure management and hedging strategy • Build and institutionalize model governance and independent validation across risk, pricing, forecasting, and automated decisioning models, ensuring strong inventory management, validation standards, and regulator-ready governance • Lead and grow a high-performing Financial Risk team spanning Liquidity & Market Risk, Capital Risk & Stress Testing, Model Governance & Validation, and Lending, Acquiring & Counterparty oversight

🎯 Requirements

• 12 to 15+ years of experience in financial risk management within banks, fintechs, payments companies, digital banks, non-bank lenders, or similarly regulated financial institutions • 5 to 7+ years in a senior leadership role with global or multi-jurisdictional scope • Deep expertise across several core financial risk disciplines, including credit risk, liquidity risk, capital adequacy, stress testing, FX or market risk, treasury risk, or model risk management • Strong second line experience designing frameworks, setting limits, challenging first line decisions, and escalating material matters to senior governance forums and executives • Direct experience developing or overseeing capital and liquidity adequacy frameworks such as ICAAP, ILAAP, or equivalent prudential processes, and designing or governing enterprise stress testing programs • Experience building or scaling model governance standards, validation processes, and model inventory governance in a regulated environment • Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, actuarial science, or another quantitative discipline

🏖️ Benefits

• US-based employees are eligible to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) plan • Short-term and long-term disability • Basic life insurance • Well-being benefits • 20 paid days of vacation • 12 paid days of company holidays