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Product Finance Director

Airwallex· Finance & Corporate Development
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SG - SingaporeFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Director-level role owning accounting, reconciliation, and financial governance for Airwallex's core product suite (payments, issuing, acquiring, FX, intercompany flows, wallet infrastructure). Cross-functional partner to Product, Engineering, and Treasury with a focus on AI/automation-led reconciliation and scalable financial operations.

Responsibilities

  • Drive AI adoption and automation in reconciliation: Lead the implementation of AI-based reconciliation tools and automated workflows across cash, intercompany, AR, and treasury operations.
  • Product accounting ownership: Serve as the primary accounting authority for all product-related fund flows, payment clearing, issuing revenue, acquiring settlements, rebate netting, FX revaluation and intercompany rebalancing. Ensure accounting treatment is documented, reviewed, and consistently applied across entities.
  • Fee governance and revenue integrity: Own the accounting treatment sign-off process for all new fee types and revenue models. Design and maintain a structured governance framework (with audit trail) for accounting decisions on commercial arrangements, ensuring alignment with US GAAP group standards and local requirements.
  • Reconciliation operations leadership: Lead the reconciliation and financial operations team, ensuring bank statement access, break resolution, and close-related recon tasks are executed accurately and on time. Drive the team toward T+3 close standards and measurable reduction in open breaks.
  • Financial Risk Monitoring: Provide monitoring metric for financial risk committee on AR balances and credit risk exposures.
  • Cost Engine Build-Up: Lead the design and build-out of a scalable cost engine to support cost accruals and reconciliation. Define cost drivers, allocation logic, data sources, and calculation methodologies in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
  • FR and MR Topline Reconciliation: Own the reconciliation and continuous improvement of Financial Reporting and Management Reporting topline figures, ensuring consistency between the two outputs, including driving initiatives to bridge the gaps.
  • Product partnership: Engage early with Product, Engineering, and Legal on new product launches, feature changes, and fund flow redesigns to ensure finance requirements (accounting, controls, reporting, regulatory) are built in from the start.
  • FX Hub and treasury infrastructure: Support the operationalization of a new FX Hub and related intercompany structures. Lead the accounting design for back-to-back hedge arrangements.
  • Systems and data quality: Maintain accountability for ledger data quality underpinning reconciliation (e.g. Oracle movement types, BAM records, Leapfin domain tagging). Drive resolution of structural data issues with Engineering and Ops counterparts.

Qualifications

  • Experience: 10+ years of progressive finance experience, with meaningful exposure to payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure businesses. Prior product finance, technical accounting, or financial operations leadership experience is strongly preferred.
  • Qualifications: Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CA/CPA or equivalent professional certification is preferred.
  • Technical aptitude: A builder's mindset with genuine interest in AI and automation tools. Comfort with data concepts, SQL, or scripting is a plus. Demonstrated ability to work with Engineering and Product teams to solve finance problems through technology rather than headcount.
  • Product accounting depth: Strong working knowledge of payment product accounting including clearing, settlement, FX revaluation, intercompany and revenue recognition. The ability to design accounting frameworks for novel product structures with limited precedent.
  • Leadership: Experienced people manager, able to develop a team of managers and individual contributors, build clear ownership, and foster a high-performance culture that prizes quality, speed, and continuous improvement.
  • Stakeholder management: Comfortable operating as a peer to Product, Engineering, and Treasury leaders. Able to influence decisions without authority and communicate complex accounting positions clearly to non-finance audiences.

Skills

Required:AI and automation in reconciliationProduct accounting for payments and related flowsFinancial governance and US GAAP alignment
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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