Senior Manager/Associate Director, Strategic Finance

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 – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

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, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “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. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

The Finance & Corporate Development team at Airwallex drives the company's financial strategy and growth. Our team focuses on financial planning, analysis, and corporate transactions to ensure Airwallex's long-term success. We collaborate across departments to identify opportunities, manage risks, and execute strategic initiatives. Our goal is to support the company's mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.

What you'll do
Reporting directly to the Head of Strategic Finance, you will play a critical role in shaping Airwallex’s financial trajectory and influencing strategic decisions across the company. This is a high-impact role that sits at the intersection of strategy, finance, and execution. You will work closely with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities, track performance, and ensure capital and resources are allocated to the areas that matter most. Your work will guide where we invest, how we scale, and how we stay accountable to our long-term goals.

You will bring strong financial modelling and analytical skills, paired with the strategic thinking required to solve open-ended problems and influence decision-making. You can go deep into data to uncover what’s driving performance, then elevate to extract implications and communicate them clearly. You know how to bridge insight and action, working across functions to align stakeholders and drive outcomes.

You take ownership, operate well in ambiguity, and bring sound judgment to complex decisions. You understand what drives business performance and have the clarity, focus, and follow-through to help teams act on it.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust financial models, forecasts, and budgets to support strategic planning and day-to-day operational decision-making

• Partner with business leaders to evaluate the financial feasibility and strategic implications of key initiatives, including market expansion, product development, and strategic transactions such as partnerships, joint ventures, and M&A

• Analyse business performance to identify drivers, surface issues, and drive actions that strengthen execution and enable sustained, profitable growth

• Evaluate capital deployment across teams and initiatives, and support investment decisions that align with the company’s strategic goals and long-term priorities

• Shape and communicate the company’s financial narrative through materials for investor updates, board presentations, and internal leadership reviews

• Support capital markets readiness by building financial scenarios, aligning internal metrics to external positioning, and preparing for potential fundraising or strategic transactions

• Provide financial and strategic support on high-impact, cross-functional projects

• Improve internal finance processes, reporting, and tools to enhance transparency, decision-making, and execution discipline across the organisation

Who you are

We’re looking for individuals with strong analytical foundations, sharp business judgment, and the ability to turn insight into action. The minimum qualifications are essential to succeed in this role. Preferred qualifications help you stand out, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Minimally a Bachelor’s degree from a reputable university

• Min 6 years of experience across strategic finance, management consulting, investment banking, or revenue strategy roles

• Advanced financial modelling and Excel skills, with the ability to build and adapt models for strategic and operational decision-making

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to break down complex problems, distil business implications, and develop actionable recommendations

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and align cross-functional teams

• Proven ability to take ownership and drive end-to-end execution, even in ambiguous or evolving contexts

• Strong commercial judgment and a clear understanding of how businesses grow and scale

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in high-growth environments, ideally within the Technology space

• Have worked in top-tier management consulting, investment banking, or private equity firms

• Familiarity with SQL, business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau), and/or working with large, complex datasets across functions and regions

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.