
Senior Associate, Consumer Fraud Risk Operations at Airwallex (Singapore)
Airwallex· Singapore·
Role details
Airwallex at a glance
Airwallex is a global financial platform that lets businesses open multi-currency accounts, move money across borders, issue cards, and embed financial services through its own proprietary infrastructure.
Airwallex gives global businesses one platform for cross-border money: multi-currency business accounts, payments acceptance, corporate cards and spend management, billing, FX and treasury, and APIs to embed financial services. It runs on proprietary infrastructure and 85+ financial licenses rather than reselling legacy bank rails.
$1.8B raised · latest: Series H · $320M · June 2026 · $11B valuation · backed by Addition, T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford, QED Investors
Job description
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 ouroperating principles to see it in full.
About the Team
The Operations team at Airwallex ensures the smooth and efficient functioning of our services and processes. We focus on optimizing workflows, improving operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional customer support. By streamlining operations and implementing best practices, we help drive the company's growth and maintain high service standards. Our team is dedicated to providing a seamless experience for our customers and supporting Airwallex’s mission to empower businesses globally.
What you’ll do
As the Senior Associate, Consumer Fraud Risk Operations, you will independently work on real time risk engine optimization initiatives to enhance merchant transaction success rate and reduce merchant’s risk level globally. You will be working within a team environment to serve as a credible partner that makes sound decisions and provides support to team members. Working towards understanding Industry risk idiosyncrasies and providing feedback to model makers and product managers, you will be one of key stakeholders to improve our merchant’s risk performance..
Responsibilities:
- Optimize risk engine rules based on assessment of Airwallex’s merchant fraud & dispute pattern and commercial’s feedback
- Partner with cross-functional team to monitor merchant risk and payment performance and continue to enhance rules’ efficiency and accuracy
- Support merchant new product launch or sale event by providing best-in-class risk support
- Work with merchants on fraud or chargeback solutions and provide guidance towards the risk performance improvement plans
- Provide suggestions on current real time risk control products, policies, and processes in order to improve the risk prevention and operational effectiveness
- Envisioning and presenting AWX real-time risk solutions to internal and external partners to build up AWX’s risk brand
Minimum qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in fraud risk function with experience in payment industry
- Strong data mindset and analytical skills where SQL is a must and Python is preferred
- Deep understanding of payment real time risk controls and has strong ability to identify the risk and remediation actions
- Experience in problem-solving, including the ability to recognize non-obvious patterns and out-of-the-box thinking
- Has strong project management skills for improving rules, models and products
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Skills to communicate key risk indicators with non-risk-colleagues are essential
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
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.
Why work at Airwallex
- High-growth, ambitious environment: described as "the most ambitious work of your career" by the company; founded in 2015 and already processing $287B in payments.
- Global impact and scale: work on infrastructure used by 200,000+ businesses, from startups to enterprises like TikTok and SHEIN.
- Hybrid/office culture: 27 offices globally (Melbourne, Singapore, San Francisco, London, Shanghai, Amsterdam, and more) offering opportunities to work across teams and locations.
- Engineering-driven culture: heavy emphasis on building proprietary technology, AI, and developer-first products.
- Notable perks: opportunity to work on a modern financial stack, exposure to cutting-edge AI/Fintech intersection, and a diverse, international team of "2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech."