Global Lead of Risk Assurance (Monitoring Framework & Reporting)

Salary

Core Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• •Build and lead Airwallex's Global Risk Monitoring & Testing Programme, including methodology, annual plan, testing universe, reporting standards, and evidence requirements.
• •Design a risk-based assurance framework for independent validation of key controls across financial, operational, technology, and regulatory risk.
• •Drive evolution from point-in-time manual testing to continuous, data-enabled control validation using system logs, automated data extracts, dashboards, and internal risk tooling.
• •Ensure assurance coverage keeps pace with business change including new products, markets, entities, infrastructure, and partner arrangements.
• •Oversee independent testing of complex financial risk controls (FX, liquidity, capital, treasury, model governance, underwriting, limit management).
• •Direct deep-dive testing of operational and product controls across technology and business processes (platform resiliency, incident governance, cloud and data controls, third-party dependencies, automated decisioning).
• •Lead testing of non-FCC regulatory and partner-related obligations (consumer protection, licensing commitments, conduct expectations).
• •Establish clear standards for finding articulation, severity calibration, root cause analysis, and evidence quality.
• •Partner with Enterprise Risk and first line leaders to escalate material control gaps and enforce remediation accountability.
• •Produce thematic reporting and trend analysis for senior leadership.
• •Build and maintain a regulator-ready and audit-ready repository of methodologies, testing records, workpapers, evidence, and closure rationale.
• •Serve as senior lead during regulatory examinations, partner bank reviews, and other external assurance exercises.
• •Build and lead a high-performing global team of assurance professionals.