Manager, Regulatory Compliance

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. We are proudly founded in Melbourne, with a team of over 2,000 talented individuals across 26 offices globally. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, motivated by our mission and operating principles. We move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; you turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products and “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking.

About The Team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts, passionate about safeguarding Airwallex's operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal, compliance and financial risks.

The Global Regulatory Compliance Team forms part of the second line of defence (2LOD) at Airwallex whilst operating within the larger LRC function. We are a proactive and trusted business partner committed to enabling Airwallex’s growth and strategic goals by providing an advisory and oversight role. Our team culture is collaborative, impact-driven with a focus on continuous improvement. You’ll be part of a team that values transparency, empowerment, and high performance.

This is a newly created role with a specific focus on our business in Israel, making you a key member of the Global Regulatory Compliance Team, based in our Israel office with a direct line to the Associate Director, Regulatory Compliance, UK & ME.

What You'll Do

As Manager, Regulatory Compliance, Israel, you will deliver on the regulatory engagement strategy for Airwallex in Israel. This involves maintaining our licensing responsibilities and coordinating with all internal and external parties to ensure compliance through clear communication of regulatory requirements. You will collaborate cross-functionally to productize solutions and offerings, implement and execute processes, file requisite reports, renew registrations and licenses, manage regulatory examinations end-to-end, and interface with regulators on ad-hoc inquiries. You will analyze new and existing products, providing guidance to ensure our 2LOD controls are fit for purpose and comply with regulatory obligations, and guide the first-line business to mature customer-facing and internal back-office processes and product features.

Responsibilities

• Support the Airwallex Group’s expansion by managing the regulatory compliance components of licence authorisation processes.
• Act as a key stakeholder in relation to licence applications, business plan updates and information requests between Airwallex and our regulators.
• Ensure that our regulatory compliance and integrity risk reporting obligations are maintained in the region.
• Support and / or manage on-site exams and inspections (in collaboration with our LRC colleagues).
• Advise the business with respect to regulatory change initiatives with a particular focus on how to effectively manage compliance risk attached to new laws and regulations in the jurisdictions we operate.
• Develop policies, processes and provide advice in relation to regulatory risk obligations that exist within the 1st line business.
• Manage regulatory compliance risk within the Airwallex Risk Management Framework and associated escalation process (inc. the Group Risk Committee).
• Advise the business in relation to conduct risk and ethics matters (where appropriate) relating to our financial services licences.
• Deliver the Compliance Monitoring Program; Conduct targeted and thematic reviews on a wide range of topics to ensure appropriate organisational maturity.
• Deliver the Airwallex Group’s Compliance Training for employees and conduct ad-hoc training to specific business areas as required.
• Conduct ‘Proactive Special Ops’ projects to unlock business or operational issues to enable Airwallex to achieve its strategic goals more rapidly.

Who You Are (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 6 years of regulatory compliance experience in a financial institution, FinTech, legal / consulting firm, or combination of the above.
• Familiarity with financial regulatory laws, rules, regulations and industry best practices in Israel and more broadly across the EMEA region.
• Data proficiency - ability to work with data and leverage it for strategic decision-making.
• Ability to operate strategically and think creatively to solve complex regulatory compliance challenges.
• Superior communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex topics to a wide range of stakeholders including regulators, executive leadership, and front-line staff.
• Experience with developing and/or maintaining a compliance program within a financial institution, preferably in respect of payments activity.
• Exposure to licensing processes, regulatory expansion, and RegTech or technology-driven compliance solutions.
• Understanding of financial products and related conduct risk, ethics, and controls.

Who You Are (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience dealing with the ISA with respect to the payments regulatory framework.

Key skills/competency

• Regulatory Compliance
• Financial Institutions
• FinTech
• Risk Management
• Licensing Processes
• Payments Regulation
• Israeli Regulations (ISA)
• EMEA Regulations
• Data Analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement