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Head of Risk Operations

Airwallex·📍 London, United Kingdom

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FULL TIME

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Experience

DIRECTOR

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About Airwallex Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting

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About this listing

  • Listed from a Ashby careers board · last confirmed on the source 29 Oct 2026
  • Posted 7 Aug 2026

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Proven experience, including senior leadership in large-scale, multi-jurisdiction operations in a rapidly growing regulated financial-services or payments/fintech business Proven track record of scaling Risk Operations (at least 2 of Payments, Issuing and Credit) across multiple geographies, and of building globally consistent performance Background in Fraud Ops and ATO risk control Strong commercial and analytical judgement — comfortable framing decisions in unit economics, scalability and return on investment Track record of operating at the Operations–Product–Risk intersection and driving cross-functional outcomes without full reporting-line authority Demonstrated delivery of automation/AI-led transformation in an operations setting Evidence of big data/analytics (including SQL, DBX and BI tooling) Preferred

Department · Operations

Hiring company

Airwallex

Finance & Banking

Grow your business faster with Airwallex - global business accounts, high speed transfers, multi-currency cards, online payments, embedded finance, and more.

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