The role
ABOUT AIRWALLEX
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
ATTRIBUTES WE VALUE
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/us/operating-principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.
ABOUT THE ROLE
An exciting opportunity has come up to join Airwallex as a Financial Analyst in our Treasury team. This role will focus on building robust payment reconciliation frameworks and safeguarding processes across our global payment flows, ensuring customer funds are protected and financial operations run seamlessly end to end. You will create transparency on cash positions, safeguarding compliance, and reconciliation performance, providing senior management with the insights they need to manage risk and support scalable growth.
The Financial Analyst will also work closely with Product & Engineering, Operations, and Legal & Compliance to enhance reconciliation tooling, safeguarding controls, and financial operations workflows, playing an integral role in product development and continuous process improvement as Airwallex builds the global financial infrastructure that empowers businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Improve transparency on Airwallex’s global cash positions, funding needs, risk exposures, and control environment by developing consistent reporting, analytics, and KPIs across all entities, and contribute to the standardisation and automation of these processes.
- Perform data-driven financial and reconciliation analysis on cash flows, payment volumes, safeguarding balances, and variances, translating findings into clear, actionable insights that support Treasury, Finance, and business decision-making.
- Design, implement, and continuously enhance safeguarding and client money controls (including account segregation, daily reconciliations, variance monitoring, and remediation workflows) to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk appetite.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to define reconciliation and safeguarding requirements, shape data models and tooling, and design operational workflows that scale with new products, geographies, partners, and regulatory regimes.
- Drive process standardisation and automation across Treasury and financial operations, streamlining reconciliation and reporting workflows, reducing manual intervention and operational risk, and minimising reconciliation backlogs and ageing.
- Provide ad hoc support on Finance and firmwide initiatives (e.g. new banking partners, regulatory change, product launches, capital and liquidity projects).
WHAT YOU BRING:
- Bachelor’s degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Financial Engineering or similar fields;
- 3-5 years working experience in an analytical role in Financial Service, Internet and Fintech industry is preferred;
- Strong interest in developing a career in Finance and Treasury, working knowledge of financial markets, banking/payment products and accounting standard is preferred;
- Strong analytical skills of working with very large amount of data and using tools to generate business insights, prior experience in end to end analytical process including data gathering, analysis, presenting and execution is preferred;
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, start-up and autonomous environment, have a level of maturity to run your own race within the organization;
- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and urgency; a problem-solver who takes initiative and able to prioritize and execute tasks;
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to build relationships and work effectively with others;
- Prior experience with programming languages such as SQL, R and Python and analytical tools such as Tableau, Looker and Data Studio is a plus;
- Proficient in English in both written and verbal.
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.