Senior Data Scientist, Anaytics (Risk & Compliance)

Senior Data Scientist, Anaytics (Risk & Compliance) 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 Product team at Airwallex is a group of passionate builders and problem-solvers who are obsessed with crafting customer-centric solutions that empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. We combine technical expertise with a deep understanding of our customers' needs to design and build unified, intuitive, and scalable products. As a team, we thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, constantly iterating and pushing boundaries to deliver exceptional product experiences. We partner closely with legal, regulatory, financial crime compliance, product, engineering and commercial teams to help Airwallex grow safely and sustainably. Our work spans regulatory reporting, financial crime compliance, enterprise risk management, data & privacy and more – all under a fast-evolving global regulatory landscape. We’re a high-impact, high-trust team that thrives on solving complex problems to support Airwallex’s global ambitions. WHAT YOU'LL DO As Senior Data Scientist, Analytics (Risk & Compliance), you will be the go-to analytics partner for our Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime Compliance teams, impact across our global footprint. You’ll help transform how Airwallex manages regulatory reporting and risk oversight by building robust data foundations, validation frameworks, and self-service analytics that regulators, auditors, and senior leaders can rely on. RESPONSIBILITIES - Lead analytics and data design for priority regulatory reports (e.g. regulatory compliance, financial crime, and financial regulatory returns), from requirement translation through to data logic, testing, and go‑live. - Partner with Regulatory Compliance, FCC, Finance, DataOps and Data Engineering to standardise how we use common dimensions (accounts, FX, products, entities) across reports, leveraging the regulatory reporting data foundation. - Work with Data Engineering to define automated test suites and manual QA playbooks that must pass before reports are submitted to regulators. - Leverage snapshotting and versioning approaches so that “as‑of” historical reports can be regenerated and explained consistently during RFIs, audits, or supe ... (truncated, view full listing at source)