Communications Associate

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 150,000 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 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, 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.

We are seeking a highly organised, proactive and bilingual Communications Associate to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to support our communications team across a variety of social impact and communications initiatives. This is an exciting career opportunity for those who are looking for a dynamic, challenging and high-growth environment.

• Provide translation support for media and communications materials between Chinese and English.

• Assist with the preparation, editing, and distribution of bilingual press releases, speeches, and other external communications.

• Support coordination with external media contacts and PR agencies as required.

• Assist with planning, coordinating, and executing Airwallex Impact initiatives.

• Track program milestones, deliverables, and key performance indicators.

• Support stakeholder communications and reporting related to AWX Impact programs.

• Strategically oversee the team’s event calendar, ensuring optimal time allocation, prioritisation of high-impact commitments, and seamless scheduling of critical meetings.

• Research, prepare and refine high-quality briefing materials, presentations, reports to support informed decision-making and engagements.

• Proven experience in a program coordination, communications support or executive assistant role.

• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills, with strong attention to detail.

• Strong written and spoken fluency in both English and Chinese (Mandarin).

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Comfortable working across different time zones and cultures.

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.