--- title: 'Senior Governance Risk & Compliance Regional Specialist - InfoSec at Airwallex' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-governance-risk-compliance-regional-specialist-infosec-airwallex-dubai-bwrrt5x8tkvz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # Senior Governance Risk & Compliance Regional Specialist - InfoSec at Airwallex - **Company:** [Airwallex](https://feeny.ai/companies/airwallex) - **Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airwallex/6b9ad6b8-1531-49db-a738-a63880a57582 ## 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 As the regional anchor for Airwallex’s security compliance function, you’ll connect requirements 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, metrics, dashboards and evidence management. - Build and maintain security documentation and evidence artefacts that support internal and external stakeholders. - Develop subject-matter expertise across regional security compliance requirements while contributing to the wider global Information Security programme. - Apply practical security judgment to complex cloud environments and work independently across engineering, legal and business teams. - Evolve our compliance operating model as we scale across new markets and regulations. ## What we're looking for Essentials - 7+ years of cybersecurity experience, with a proven ability to work and execute independently. - Deep knowledge of relevant compliance and control frameworks such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and similar standards, with a strong understanding of what makes a successful information security audit. - Strong understanding of information security concepts, practices and solutions, with the confidence to work closely with engineering teams and discuss technical topics fluently. - Experience creating and maintaining security policies, including adapting policies to meet complex regulatory requirements. - Working understanding of complex cloud environments and their impact on security and compliance operations. - Working understanding of financial services or payments. - Experience managing, implementing and monitoring security controls, including preparing for and supporting successful information security audits. - Ability to work independently, manage projects and execute security and compliance tasks with a high degree of autonomy. - Strong communication skills and confidence acting as a regional contact for regulators, customers, partners and vendors.. ## Preferred - Prior experience in the Fintech industry. - Knowledge of security compliance specific to the finance industry or the UAE. - Understanding of financial services and/or payments. - Experience applying AI and automation to compliance, security operations, reporting, or communications. - An industry-leading security degree or certification, such as a BS or MS in Cybersecurity, CISSP, CEH, or CISA. - Experience using project management skills to deliver initiatives without being bound to traditional solutions or methodologies. You'll thrive here if - You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken. - You have a passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups/ scale ups, and for thinking creatively about ‘solved’ problems. - You're comfortable with ambiguity. Give you a problem, not a prescription, and you'll run with it. - You can execute independently and hold yourself to a high standard even when no one is watching. Quality and accountability aren't external expectations, they're internal ones. - You've operated in a compliance-heavy environment and know how to move fast without cutting the corners that matter. - You enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing your hours occasionally to make that connection work. Learn more about your team InfoSec at Airwallex runs one of the most modern security teams in the world, protecting hundreds of thousands of customers and hundreds of billions of dollars. Our scale, funding, and industry make us a real target, so we skip the standard playbook of off-the-shelf tools and tiered SOC analysts and build almost everything ourselves, often with AI ahead of the rest of the industry. You'll go back to first principles constantly, because the off-the-shelf answer is rarely right for us, and we can build better than what already exists. If you want to build security from the ground up, against a real adversary, with people who are actually good at this, this is the team for 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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