Financial Operations Lead

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations in the US, this person will be among the first hires in the US focused on Financial Operations, as part of a larger global Financial Operations (FinOps) team. The team aims to deliver operational excellence of our customer transaction lifecycle and manage our liquidity to support the company’s business growth across the globe. As a Manager, Financial Operations, you’ll work closely with counterparts within Operations but also with Commercial and Product teams to identify and remediate FinOps-related issues, while managing a team of 2-3 individuals in the US and EU. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage a team of Senior and Associate financial operations professionals located in the US and EU. 

• Focus on scaling and operationalizing our global financial operations function while shaping the team’s strategic priorities and future growth plans.

• Monitor global end-to-end client transaction lifecycle, handle inquiries, detect exceptions from data reports and dashboards in a timely manner, communicate with teams and other departments to handle issues

• Support with daily safeguarding obligations, across multiple Airwallex entities

• Monitor the clearing and settlement of client funds and global money pools; drive data oriented approaches to improve our liquidity management system, fund risk management and treasury efficiency and utilization

• Maintain the team knowledge base and refine the standard operating procedures; find opportunity for operational optimisation and process automation tooling. 

• Build data-oriented performance metrics, quality assurance framework and tooling to monitor, detect, and remediate operational risk areas and control defects to minimize errors

• Set up compliant, accurate and timely reporting data capabilities based on external regulatory and third party requirements 

What you’ll bring: 

• Bachelor’s degree or above

• Experienced people manager with demonstrated experience leading teams with varying levels of experience

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in payments or operations at a technology company

• Experience working in a global, dynamic environment is a plus

• Ability to rapidly understand new products and demonstrate problem-solving skills

• Strong communication skills and customer service orientation

• Attention to detail and tendency towards a documented approach

• Proficient working with data and operating in an ever-changing environment

• A strong team player who thrives in working in close collaboration with other teams

• Experience with MS Office; technical skill set of VBA, SQL, and visualization tools like Looker and Data Studio is a plus

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.

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