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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hybrid
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 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.
The Role:
To support the rapid business growth and increasing regulatory obligations of Airwallex’s international business, we’re seeking a talented and motivated individual with strong analytical and operational skills to join our Reporting Operations team in Singapore or Malaysia. This role will work closely with our global stakeholders to ensure our regulatory submissions are accurate, compliant and timely across multiple jurisdictions. Reporting Ops participates in designing and operating end-to-end regulatory reporting processes, enhancing data and control frameworks, and driving automation to support cross-functional teams globally.
Manage and execute end-to-end regulatory reporting cycles for assigned jurisdictions: collect and validate input data, perform reconciliations and reasonableness checks, prepare reporting files and documentation, and coordinate timely submission to regulators and internal stakeholders.
Perform in-depth analysis on reporting data and early and proper escalation for exceptions; support to identify root causes for discrepancies or data quality issues, work with relevant teams to drive remediation, and continuously refine controls and monitoring to reduce operational and reporting risk.
Detect opportunities to streamline and automate regulatory reporting workflows and controls; partner with relevant teams to improve data pipelines, dashboards and tools, and provide practical suggestions to stakeholders on process optimisation
Support regulatory change, audits and reviews by assessing reporting impact, updating documentation and controls, and preparing clear explanations and evidence packs for regulators and internal governance forums.
Contribute to building and maintaining a central regulatory reporting calendar, metrics and dashboards to track reporting timeliness, quality and incident trends, enabling continuous improvement of Reporting Ops.
Bachelor’s degree or above, with at least 2 years of relevant working experience in regulatory reporting, risk and financial operations, financial reporting, compliance, or data/analytics roles.
Experience in payments, banking, and other related regulated financial services is preferred.
Strong analytical and data skills; proficiency in Excel; experience using SQL or similar tools for data querying, validation and investigation. Experience with reporting systems, data pipelines or BI / visualisation tools is a plus.
Strong attention to detail and control mindset, with proven ability to manage multiple deadlines, navigate complex requirements, and deliver accurate outputs under time pressure.
Strong communication skills and stakeholder management capability; able to work closely with Global Legal, Risk and Compliance and cross-functional teams across regions.
Proficiency in English; Good reading and writing skills in Mandarin is a plus; able to adapt to a global and cross-cultural working environment.
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 @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through 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.
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.
