KYC Onboarding Operations Analyst

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.

About the team

The Operations team at Airwallex ensures the smooth and efficient functioning of our services and processes. We focus on optimizing workflows, improving operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional customer support. By streamlining operations and implementing best practices, we help drive the company's growth and maintain high service standards. Our team is dedicated to providing a seamless experience for our customers and supporting Airwallex’s mission to empower businesses globally.

What you’ll do

An exciting opportunity has come up within our U.S. Know Your Customer (KYC) Operations Team. Our KYC Operations team is one of the most critical teams at Airwallex. You will be one of the first points of contact for our new potential customers, assisting them with their applications in order to open an Airwallex account. You’ll be responsible for performing the required KYC screenings on customers, documenting the information obtained on the clients as required by U.S. KYC regulations.

This role can be remotely based in the U.S. or our San Francisco office, preferably in PST.

Responsibilities:

• Liaising with customers via email and Slack to ensure they have a smooth onboarding experience

• Collecting key information (data entry) and helping execute our global operations processes

• Supporting our KYC analysts with subject matter expertise and escalations support

• Managing and executing our Quality Assurance (QA) program

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role.

Minimum qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in Operations 

• AML/KYC knowledge & experience

• Excellent focus on attention to detail with the ability to identify quality gaps and clearly provide feedback and coaching to individuals

• A knack for identifying process improvement opportunities and an ability to proactively share feedback and ideas with management to help drive change

• The willingness to learn new Compliance processes and develop skills at a fast pace

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel/ Google spreadsheets, bonus if you are comfortable with the occasional SQL query!

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.

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.