Senior Manager, Model Governance and Data Standards

Senior Manager, Model Governance and Data Standards ABOUT AIRWALLEX Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. ATTRIBUTES WE VALUE We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/us/operating-principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next. ABOUT THE TEAM The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We're passionate about safeguarding Airwallex's operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks. WHAT YOU'LL DO As Senior Manager, Model Governance and Data Standards, you will play a critical role in establishing and maintaining a robust governance framework and independent testing and validation mechanism to ensure model and data standards are applied across Airwallex. You will ensure the framework is enforced with regular monitoring to confirm all models produce expected outcomes in line with business needs. You will also ensure that our models and data are used responsibly, ethically, and in compliance with regulatory requirements. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Create and maintain a comprehensive risk model register and model inventory - Develop, implement, and enforce model governance policies and procedures, including model definition, testing, rollout, and ongoing monitoring - Establish model risk appetite and tolerance levels, and ensure performance validation of models meets policy standards; remediate any findings - Monitor model performance, identify potential risks, and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and industry best practices - Create and enforce data quality standards, working closely with the data privacy officer and infosec teams to ensure privacy and information security standards are met - Develop and maintain data governance frameworks, including data quality metrics, metadata management, and master data management - Participate in independent testing and model validation activities, as necessary - Communicate model risk and data governance findings to senior management, and provide training and guidance on model governance and data standards WHO YOU ARE We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The prefe ... (truncated, view full listing at source)