Manager, Operations, South Korea
Airwallex· Operations
KR - SeoulFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Role to own the South Korea operations function from Seoul, building and leading a scalable team to ensure compliant, efficient operations and a seamless end-user experience for Airwallex customers in Korea.
Responsibilities
- Identify and drive strategic projects to improve our customer experience, as well as help operationalize various internal Airwallex functions
- Take a data-driven approach to problem solving
- Work across functions to ensure stakeholder alignment and deliver desired outcomes
- Help build processes relating to customer support
- Manage the daily operation and monitoring of AML/compliance programs
- Work with the Compliance Manager to operationalise emerging regulatory and compliance requirements (such as KYC, AML, CTF) on a regular basis
- Work with the product teams to promote our Operations product and excellence our operations affairs
- Monitoring and improving the efficiency of key compliance operations functions including transaction monitoring, KYC, and name screening
- Monitoring payment and treasury related operations for the regional business
- Help define key KPIs and build the appropriate reports to improve the customer experience while driving efficiency improvements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- 7+ years relevant experience
- Experience working in a global environment is preferred
- Experience in FinTech or start-up or fast-growing tech company experience is preferred
- Experience in Top-tier strategy/management consulting is preferred
- Fluency in English and Korean
Skills
Required:LeadershipProblem solvingStakeholder managementAML/KYC/CTF knowledge
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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