Transaction Monitoring Senior Analyst

## **About Airwallex** Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our [operating principles](https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles) to see it in full. - **Role:** This role mainly focuses on transaction monitoring case handling. It reports to the GC Transaction Monitoring Manager. **Responsibilities:** - Conduct daily transaction monitoring tasks to timely clear and escalate the transactions in case management system per predefined TM procedure. - Managing inquiries on suspicious transactions from banking partners or law enforcement. - Conduct comprehensive analysis over suspicious clients where applicable and file STR to the regulatory agencies. - Participate in various AML related projects and initiatives to help drive the operation excellence and overall efficiency. - Proactively stay up-to-date with AML related news and regulatory developments, improve the knowledge base of AML and Sanctions within the team and assist with the development of in-house expertise. - Complete other work related to transaction monitoring operation or assigned by FinCrime Operation Manager. **Key Requirements:** - A minimum of 5 years of relevant AML and Sanctions experience in a public accounting and/or litigation/disputes consulting firm, financial services industry or regulatory environment. - Familiarity with common money laundering schemes, sanctions compliance, general or risk-based compliance, risk management, other financial crime compliance. - Meticulous with good analytical skills, detail-orientated, team player, proficient in time management and able to represent Compliance in Group projects - Demonstrate ability to effectively review and analyse data/situation and apply judgement to resolve issues in a timely manner - Having substantial hands on experience on the following areas is a plus: - International, regional and local regulatory knowledge/experience, AML and OFAC risk assessment of Process improvement initiatives (KYC, CDD, etc.) - Policy & procedure development (Black/white list maintenance; STR writing/review, etc.) - Alert clearing and investigations - Common AML Typology Analysis - Vendor solutions in KYC - Transaction Monitoring, Case Management or Sanction Compliance - Internet Financing or payment company risk and Compliance - Investment banking - Excellent verbal and written communication in both Mandarin and English. - Proficient in use of MS outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint. ## **Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters** *To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @*[**](http://airwallex.com) *email address. Please apply only through* [**](http://careers.airwallex.com) *or our official LinkedIn page.* *Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.* ## **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.