Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence
Core
Lead proactive, complex, and high-risk anti-money laundering and financial crime investigations across Airwallex's global financial infrastructure, acting as an investigative subject-matter expert and operational lead.
Role type
Senior Manager, Financial Crime Investigations & Intelligence
Builds
Investigative playbooks, typology context, case documentation standards, and quality-assurance frameworks tailored to B2B fintech.
Domain
Global Fintech / Financial Crime Compliance
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AML/CFT investigations, financial intelligence, cross-border payments, SWIFT, local clearing rails, card schemes, alternative payment methods, KYB/UBO, SAR/STR drafting, transaction monitoring rule calibration, threat assessment, internal fraud/insider-threat investigations, regulatory frameworks (FATF, FinCEN/BSA, FCA, AUSTRAC, MAS), data querying, large dataset analysis.
Preferred skills
CAMS/CFE certification, SQL, Python, Tableau, network/link analysis software, digital assets/crypto rails, embedded finance/BaaS.
Technologies
SWIFT, ACH, SQL, Python, Tableau, network/link analysis software
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end investigations into complex financial crime typologies involving cross-border payment flows, multi-currency corporate accounts, and complex ownership structures. Oversee case intake, triage, prioritisation, and assignment for special investigations. Lead financial-crime-related internal fraud and insider-threat investigations. Analyse layered international transactions across payment rails to trace illicit fund movements and identify beneficial owners. Provide investigative analysis and recommendations for SAR/STR cases. Translate investigative findings into actionable feedback for Risk, Data, and Engineering teams to improve automated detection models. Develop and maintain financial-crime typologies and threat assessments. Partner with Transaction Monitoring, Onboarding, Sanctions, Fraud, Legal, and regional MLROs. Build and maintain investigative playbooks and documentation standards. Support internal audits and regulatory inquiries. Provide guidance, peer reviews, and training to investigators and analysts.
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on IC with strategic oversight