Financial Operations Manager – APAC

Airwallex

Financial Operations Manager leading APAC teams for financial operations at Airwallex. Focused on managing client transactions and driving liquidity management activities.

Posted 7/13/2026full-timeKuala Lumpur • 🇲🇾 MalaysiaMid-LevelSenior💰 MYR 110,000 - MYR 155,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing financial operations teams, optimizing processes, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Proficient in data analysis and performance metrics development to enhance operational efficiency and risk management.

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Team ManagementFinancial OperationsData AnalysisRegulatory ComplianceProcess Optimization

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Hard Skills

Payments ExperienceOperations ManagementData ReportingRisk ManagementTreasury EfficiencyVBASQLPythonLookerData Studio

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationCustomer Service OrientationAttention to DetailProblem-SolvingCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

MS OfficeVisualization Tools

Industry Keywords

Global Financial OperationsClient Transaction LifecycleOperational RiskQuality AssuranceOperational Optimization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQLVBA

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage a team of Senior and Associate financial operations professionals located in MY, SG and CN.
Focus on scaling and operationalizing our global financial operations function while shaping the team’s strategic priorities and future growth plans.
Monitor global end-to-end client transaction lifecycle, handle inquiries, detect exceptions from data reports and dashboards in a timely manner, communicate with teams and other departments to handle issues
Support with daily safeguarding obligations, across multiple Airwallex entities.
Monitor the clearing and settlement of client funds and global money pools; drive data oriented approaches to improve our liquidity management system, fund risk management and treasury efficiency and utilization
Maintain the team knowledge base and refine the standard operating procedures; find opportunity for operational optimisation and process automation tooling.
Build data-oriented performance metrics, quality assurance framework and tooling to monitor, detect, and remediate operational risk areas and control defects to minimize errors
Set up compliant, accurate and timely reporting data capabilities based on external regulatory and third party requirements

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or above
Experienced people manager with demonstrated experience leading teams with varying levels of experience
A minimum of 5 years of experience in payments or operations at a technology company
Experience working in a global, dynamic environment is a plus
Ability to rapidly understand new products and demonstrate problem-solving skills
Strong communication skills and customer service orientation
Attention to detail and tendency towards a documented approach
Proficient working with data and operating in an ever-changing environment
A strong team player who thrives in working in close collaboration with other teams
Experience with MS Office; technical skill set of VBA, SQL, Python is a plus; visualization tools like Looker and Data Studio is a plus too.

Benefits

Comp & perks

statutory minimum for paid annual leave and public holidays
additional company-provided vacation days for many locations
medical, dental, and vision insurance for US-based employees
401(k) plan for US-based employees
short-term and long-term disability benefits for US-based employees
basic life insurance for US-based employees
well-being benefits for US-based employees
20 paid days of vacation for US-based employees
12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year for US-based employees