--- title: 'Senior Data Scientist, Analytics (Regulatory Reporting) at Airwallex' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-scientist-analytics-regulatory-reporting-airwallex-singapore-43etqyr982ak' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-11' --- # Senior Data Scientist, Analytics (Regulatory Reporting) at Airwallex - **Company:** [Airwallex](https://feeny.ai/companies/airwallex) - **Location:** Singapore - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/c54f9e87-56f0-4bb1-9dce-fbf3b0b7060c/application **Skills:** SQL, Python, Shell, R, Looker, Tableau, Data Modeling, Regulatory Reporting, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk Management, Analytics, Visualization, AI/ML Governance, Model Risk Management, Fintech Data Modeling, Payments, FX, Wallets, Lending > The Senior Data Scientist will serve as the analytics partner for Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime Compliance teams. The role involves leading data design for regulatory reports, building validation frameworks, and creating self-service analytics to support risk oversight and regulatory reporting across a g... ## 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 our[operating principles](https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles) to see it in full. ## How you'll make impact This isn’t a traditional reporting role. You’ll own the analytical layer of Airwallex’s regulatory data infrastructure, defining what “correct” means and building systems that prove it. You’ll work at the intersection of data engineering, compliance logic and product intelligence to help transform how Airwallex manages regulatory reporting and risk oversight. - Lead the analytical and data design for priority regulatory reports, translating requirements into data logic, testing and go-live processes. - Partner with Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Finance, Data Operations and Data Engineering to standardise common dimensions such as accounts, FX, products and entities across reports. - Co-design data models and mart-layer logic with Data Engineering, shaping how reporting dimensions are structured, tested and versioned upstream. - Define automated test suites and manual quality-assurance playbooks that reports must pass before submission to regulators. - Investigate anomalies, requests for information and audit findings by quantifying impact, identifying root causes across products and entities, and proposing remediation options. - Shape requirements for a scalable regulatory reporting and risk analytics platform. - Raise the standard of analytical rigour, documentation and validation across risk and compliance topics, while mentoring analysts and data scientists in adjacent teams. This is an in-office role — you’ll be in our Singapore office five days a week. ## What we’re looking for Essentials - A bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Finance, Economics or a related quantitative discipline. - 5+ years of hands-on experience extracting and manipulating large datasets with SQL, plus scripting experience in Python, Shell or R. - 5+ years of proven risk management experience or equivalent, including analytics, model implementation and stakeholder management. - Experience with analytics engineering practices, including writing modular, tested and documented SQL transformations using dbt or an equivalent tool, and thinking in layers across sources, staging and marts. - Experience building exploratory and production-grade analytics with modern data tools, such as Hex, Evidence or notebook-style environments where SQL, Python and visualisation work together. - Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain technical data topics to non-technical audiences, document assumptions clearly and influence partners across Legal, Risk, Compliance, Finance and Engineering. ## Preferred - Direct experience working on regulatory reporting in risk and compliance domains. - Hands-on experience with dbt, including models, tests, documentation and macros, and a modern data warehouse such as BigQuery, Databricks or Snowflake. - Experience owning a data model end to end rather than only querying existing tables. - Understanding of data pipeline design, including when a problem belongs in the transformation, application or reporting layer, and the ability to discuss these trade-offs with Data Engineering peers. - Exposure to model risk or AI/ML governance, such as model inventories, validation and monitoring, and an interest in how these frameworks intersect with regulatory reporting and compliance analytics. - Experience working with cross-functional, geographically distributed teams and managing by influence. You’ll thrive here if - You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself. - You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken. - You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway. - You simplify complexity rather than hiding behind it. - You communicate clearly and directly across cultures, and you're thoughtful about how context shifts meaning across borders. Learn more about your team The Regulatory Reporting team at Airwallex owns one of the most consequential data functions in the company: ensuring our financial activities are reported accurately, completely, and on time to regulators and central banks in every jurisdiction where we hold a license. We're platform engineers and data professionals who own the full regulatory reporting lifecycle, from interpreting requirements and building the pipelines that produce filings, to submission, tracking, and maintaining an audit trail that holds up to scrutiny. We partner closely with Regulatory Compliance, Legal, Finance Operations, and Product, using modern data tooling, cloud infrastructure, and increasingly AI-driven automation to make that lifecycle reliable and efficient at scale. If you're motivated by problems that are technically demanding, operationally high-stakes, and genuinely global, we'd like to meet you. 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](http://airwallex.com) email address. Please apply only through [careers.airwallex.com](http://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. ## About Airwallex ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Airwallex is a financial technology company building a unified global payments and banking platform that helps businesses manage cross-border payments, treasury, spend, and financial operations through proprietary infrastructure, software, and AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series G) - **Headquarters**: Dual headquarters in Singapore and San Francisco, USA; founded in Melbourne, Australia - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Jack Zhang (CEO), Lucy Liu, Max Li, Xijing Dai, and Ron Li ## Core Business - Primary industry: Financial Services / Payments / Fintech Infrastructure - Target customers: B2B, primarily serving SMBs, scaling enterprises, digital platforms, and marketplaces globally - Mission or purpose statement: "Build the future of global banking" — they aim to replace legacy, fragmented banking systems with a borderless, intelligent, real-time financial operating system for modern businesses. ## Products & Services - **[Business Accounts]**: Multi-currency global accounts to receive, hold, and manage funds in 20+ currencies, with local account details for key markets. - **[Payments]**: Global payment acceptance via 160+ local payment methods, low-code checkout, and programmatic payout capabilities to 200+ countries. - **[Spend / Corporate Cards]**: Multi-currency corporate and employee cards with customisable spend controls, designed for global teams. - **[Expense Management]**: A platform to track, control, and reconcile global business expenses, including employee reimbursements. - **[Billing & Subscription Management]**: A billing platform for usage-based and subscription pricing models, supporting AI companies and complex revenue workflows. - **[Platform APIs]**: API-first infrastructure enabling businesses to embed financial services (accounts, payments, FX, card issuing) into their own products. - **[FX & Treasury]**: Interbank foreign exchange rates and tools to intelligently manage currency risk across markets. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: US$11 billion (latest valuation in 2025, following a fresh investment round). - **Key Metric**: US$1.8 billion in total funding raised; Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) surpassed US$1 billion by 2025. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series G investors include prominent global venture capital firms (specific names not listed in source but backed by top-tier VCs); serves over 200,000 businesses including TikTok, Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. - **Growth Signals**: - US$287 billion in global payments processed (USD). - 92% of transfers settled same-day, 50% processed instantly. - Over 85 financial licenses and registrations globally. - Team of ~2,300 people across 27 offices internationally. - Dual-headquarters model (Singapore + San Francisco) adopted in 2025 to support next phase of growth. ## Competitive Advantages - Proprietary, API-first infrastructure built from scratch (not riding legacy banking rails), enabling faster, cheaper, and more transparent cross-border transactions. - Unified platform combining banking, payments, spend management, billing, and FX — reducing the need for multiple vendors. - Deep AI integration across the platform to automate financial operations and provide intelligent insights. - Extensive regulatory licensing (85+ licenses) across major markets, creating a high barrier to entry. - Strong network effects: serves both direct businesses and platforms/marketplaces that embed Airwallex into their offerings. ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling the platform to support the rapid growth of AI-native companies and usage-based business models (highlighted by the launch of their global billing platform). - Expand the dual-headquarters presence to tap into the largest tech talent markets (San Francisco and Singapore). - Invest heavily in AI to build "interconnected, intelligent financial systems where money, data, and decisions move together." - Deepen product capabilities to automate financial operations end-to-end for global businesses. ## Why Work Here - 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." ## Sources 1. [airwallex.com - Who We Are](https://www.airwallex.com/en-eu/who-we-are) 2. [airwallex.com - Global Platform](https://www.airwallex.com/global) 3. [careers.airwallex.com](https://careers.airwallex.com/) 4. [LinkedIn - Airwallex](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airwallex) 5. 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