Risk Data Science Manager

At Airwallex (airwallex.com), we’re building the future of global finance on one platform. Founded in 2015 in Melbourne, Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses to grow beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all on one single platform.

If you’re excited to do the most ambitious work of your career and change the way money moves around the world - join us!

Responsibility

- Manage the roadmap and strategy for risk analytics and data science projects in consultation with the Risk product team.

- Responsible for managing a team of data scientists and data analysts providing hands on support on building effective rules and models and supporting growth and career development

- Responsible for defining standards and best practices for the risk analytics function and clearly defining ways of working between the team and the various stakeholders

- Acting as an risk analytics strategist with a strong passion for balancing customer experience and managing risk effectively across fraud, money laundering, sanctions, credit and all other risk types

- Work with the engineering teams to build an ML and AI platform to support growth and sophistication of our analytics capabilities and to improve effectiveness and efficiency of model research, development and delivery

Qualification

• 8+ years of related experience, particularly in Analytics, Consulting, Business planning roles

• Extensive experience and a deep understanding of scenarios & typologies in at least one of the following risk domains: AML, fraud and credit risk

• 4+ years of management experience in managing analytics team or other relevant functions

• Experience in communicating the results of analyses to leadership teams to influence the strategy

• Passion for management and creating opportunities for career growth for team members

• Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organize regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

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.

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.