Senior Regulatory Counsel, ANZ

Senior Regulatory Counsel, ANZ 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 Regulatory Counsel (ANZ) you will be a key regulatory legal adviser to our Australian and New Zealand businesses, sitting at the intersection of regulatory compliance, product, strategy and financial partnerships. You’ll partner closely with Product Legal, Commercial Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance and Risk to shape how we design, launch and scale products within our ANZ licences and permissions. Your advice will play a key role in how we engage with APRA, ASIC, RBA and AUSTRAC as the local regulatory landscape evolves, including payments system modernisation and prudential reforms. This role is based in Melbourne or Sydney. Responsibilities: - Be an integral part of a high-performing, innovative Regulatory Legal team that handles all regulatory issues relating to our ANZ businesses, across payments, FX, cards, stored-value, acquiring and related financial services products. - Advise local, regional and global teams (including Product, Strategy, Management, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk and Financial Partnerships) on Australian and New Zealand regulatory requirements for new and existing products, features and use-cases, working closely with Product Legal on structuring and go-to-market. - Lead or support regulatory engagements with APRA, RBA, ASIC and AUSTRAC, including licence and authorisation applications (for example APRA PPF/SVF and related AFSL permissions), prudential or thematic reviews, regulatory consultations and responses to notices and information requests. - Provide clear, commercially-grounded regulatory analysis and input in key governance forums, including compliance and risk committees, board and board-commi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)