Hybrid Director, Compliance Monitoring and Oversight

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About the role

  • Director overseeing compliance monitoring and oversight, refining frameworks, and committing to regulatory excellence at Airwallex.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategic evolution of the Compliance Monitoring and Oversight framework. You will refine our global methodology for testing, sampling, and reporting to ensure it remains best-in-class and responsive to new regulatory expectations
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a global team of monitoring specialists. You will foster a culture of curiosity, rigor, and objective challenge
  • Design and execute the Annual Compliance Monitoring Plan. You will utilize a dynamic, risk-based approach to prioritize testing activities across high-risk products, jurisdictions, and operational processes
  • Translate complex testing results into high-impact, actionable intelligence. You will provide regular reporting to the FCC and company leadership, highlighting trends, systemic issues, and remediation progress
  • Act as a strategic partner to Regional MLROs and First Line Operational leads. You will ensure that monitoring findings are constructive, clearly understood, and that remediation plans are practical and effective
  • Drive the transition towards continuous monitoring and automated testing. You will champion the use of data analytics to identify risk trends that manual sampling might miss
  • Ensure the monitoring program is audit-ready at all times and capable of standing up to scrutiny from top-tier global regulators (e.g., FCA, AUSTRAC, NY DFS, MAS)

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in Compliance Assurance, Internal Audit, or Regulatory Testing within the financial services or fintech sector
  • Significant experience managing international teams, with a track record of developing senior talent (e.g., managing managers)
  • You can see the big picture. You know how to pivot a monitoring program from a manual, transactional model to a strategic, risk-based assurance model
  • Deep understanding of testing methodologies (design effectiveness vs. operating effectiveness), sampling strategies, and root cause analysis
  • Exceptional executive presence. You are comfortable presenting "bad news" constructively to C-level executives and driving consensus on remediation
  • Experience working across multiple regulatory jurisdictions (e.g., US, UK/EU, APAC) and understanding the nuances of differing regulatory expectations

Job title

Director, Compliance Monitoring and Oversight

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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