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Senior Manager, Regulatory Operations, APAC

Airwallex· Regulatory & Compliance
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SG - Singapore, AU - Melbourne, AU - SydneyFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Manager responsible for translating APAC regulatory and partner obligations into effective controls, documentation, and reporting; leads end-to-end regulatory operations across APAC-licensed entities and products, with a hands-on, execution-focused approach.

Responsibilities

  • Identify, interpret, and operationalize regulatory and partner obligations across APAC jurisdictions, products, and licensed entities, and translate those obligations into clear governance, controls, and execution requirements.
  • Manage the end-to-end design of key regulatory and partner controls through implementation, partnering with Product, Operations, Engineering, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance to embed controls into real workflows and systems.
  • Build and maintain regulator and partner-ready documentation for your control scope, including obligation mappings, control descriptions, RACIs, testing approaches, evidence standards, and remediation tracking.
  • Engage with third parties such as regulators, auditors, and financial partners in connection with inquiries relating to controls, confidently explaining our obligations, our control architecture, and how specific controls operate in practice.
  • Support regulatory exams, audits, inspections, RFIs, and related supervisory engagements in APAC by coordinating responses, curating consistent evidence packages, maintaining “exam-ready” documentation, and partnering with Regulatory Compliance and Regulatory Legal.
  • Support the governance process for material changes to controls, ensuring that relevant obligation owners and stakeholders across Product, Operations, Engineering and Compliance are notified and aligned before changes to shared controls are implemented, and that the obligations register reflects the updated control design.
  • Contribute to the design and operation of regional regulatory reporting and obligations governance, ensuring that what must be reported, by whom, when, and from which systems is clearly defined and appropriately controlled.
  • Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or duplication in obligations, controls, and evidence across APAC, and drive pragmatic remediation or uplift plans that balance regulatory expectations, partner requirements, and business impact.
  • Use and contribute to the team's GRC tooling and compliance dashboards, maintaining accurate and current records of APAC obligations, controls, evidence and open issues within the central system, and supporting the transition towards an AI Native GRC tooling.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in regulatory operations, regulatory compliance, internal audit, risk management, or a similar discipline within a fast-growing tech startup and/or financial services, payments, or fintech company.
  • Proven experience translating legal, regulatory, or partner requirements into operational controls, procedures, and testing or assurance activities, not just policy drafting.
  • Direct involvement in supporting regulatory exams, audits, inspections, RFIs, or partner due-diligence reviews, with clear personal ownership for planning, coordination, documentation, or remediation workstreams.
  • Strong project management skills, with a track record of driving cross-functional control or reporting initiatives to completion across Product, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Risk.
  • Excellent analytical and writing skills, with the ability to turn complex regulatory concepts into clear, concise control requirements and exam-ready materials.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-standards environment with evolving priorities and meaningful cross-functional ownership, consistent with Airwallex’s broader operating model.

Skills

Required:Regulatory operations and control designRegulatory exams, audits, RFIsCross-functional program management
Nice to have:Regulatory reporting and governance

Benefits

  • Not specified in the job description
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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