Senior Analyst, Real-time Transaction Monitoring

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 to see it in full.

Location: Malaysia

Responsibilities:

• Conduct real-time transaction monitoring tasks to timely clear and escalate the transactions in the case management system per pre-defined TM procedure

• Conduct transaction screening tasks to timely clear and escalate the transactions in the Airwallex system per pre-defined screening procedure

• Participate in various AML-related projects and initiatives to help drive operational excellence and overall efficiency

• Understanding of AML regulatory regulations and regulations from card schemes

• 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 operations or assigned by the Transaction Monitoring Lead

• Coordinate with issuing and acquiring related initiatives

• Actively handle issuing investigations in a timely manner

• Perform a holistic review for post-monitoring alerts

• Escalate issuing accidents in a timely manner with proper solving suggestions

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 – 4 years of relevant AML and sanctions experience in fintech, financial services, litigation or regulatory environment

• Familiarity with typical money laundering schemes, sanctions compliance, general or risk-based compliance, risk management, and other financial crime compliance.

• Having substantial hands-on experience in the following areas is a plus: International, regional and local regulatory knowledge/experience, AML and OFAC risk assessment

• 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

• Strong data analytical skills including but not limited to advanced Google Sheets/Scripts and SQL is a huge plus, though not required

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