Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations – Intelligence

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $128k - $210k / year

⏰ 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 complex, high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across Airwallex’s global financial infrastructure • Identify and mitigate risks across cross-border payments, corporate accounts, cards, FX and embedded finance • Own end-to-end investigations involving complex payment flows, multi-currency accounts, ownership structures, cross-product risks, KYB/UBO considerations and high-risk corridors • Oversee special-investigation case intake, triage, prioritisation and assignment • Provide investigative analysis, quality assurance and escalation support for SAR/STR matters to support regional MLRO filing decisions • Investigate internal fraud and insider-threat matters involving fraud, collusion, access misuse or other financially connected conduct • Partner with Fraud, Information Security, People/HR, Employment Legal and senior management on evidence-based findings and risk recommendations • Analyse layered international transactions across SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes and alternative payment methods • Trace illicit fund movements, identify beneficial owners and uncover hidden counterparty networks • Translate findings into improvements to transaction-monitoring rules, automated detection models, investigative playbooks, typologies, training and financial-crime controls • Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding and EDD, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal, Risk, Data, Engineering and regional MLROs • Address systemic threats, respond to audits and regulatory inquiries, and strengthen investigative standards across Financial Crime Compliance

🎯 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, and FX • Knowledge of business payment flows, merchant acquiring, and corporate entity structures, including 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 the MLRO-led regulatory reporting process • Working knowledge of global AML/CTF and sanctions regulatory frameworks, including FATF recommendations, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC, MAS and relevant local requirements • Experience querying, synthesising and interpreting large transactional and customer datasets • Exceptional written communication skills, including investigative narratives and SAR/STR drafting • Ability to explain 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 • Preferred: professional certification such as CAMS, CFE or equivalent ICA diploma • Preferred: experience with SQL, Python, Tableau or network/link analysis software • Preferred: experience investigating digital assets or crypto rails, or embedded finance/BaaS integrations • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer • Must be able to work remotely in Dallas, Texas

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus eligibility • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) plan • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Basic life insurance • Well-being benefits • 20 paid vacation days for US-based employees • 12 paid company holidays for US-based employees • Statutory minimum paid annual leave and public holidays • Additional company-provided vacation days in many locations

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