Senior Governance Risk & Compliance Regional Specialist - InfoSec
Engineering
About the role
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 to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.
HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT
As the regional anchor for Airwallex's security compliance function, you'll connect
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in the UAE with our wider global Information Security programme. You'll work with government and regulatory bodies, customers, partners, vendors and internal teams, providing clear security information and helping Airwallex manage its external security relationships, while supporting our regional entities and making sure their needs are heard by the global team.
You'll work with significant autonomy, drawing on your project management experience to move work forward without relying on prescribed methods. And you'll treat security and compliance as disciplines to improve continuously, not boxes to tick.
- Design, implement and monitor security controls, policies and procedures across international regulatory compliance, data privacy, risk and security governance.
- Use AI and automation to streamline compliance work, including reporting, communications, metr…