Senior Accountant, Finance

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.

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. 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:

This role will be a key member of the Airwallex APAC Financial Controllership team. You will play an important role in ensuring the accuracy of the monthly financial reporting across our APAC entities. You take ownership of APAC group entities reporting and own the accounting for complicated accounting aspects, including supporting audit. You will closely collaborate with our FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Financial Ops teams and legal regulatory reporting team, supporting our efforts to continuously improve our financial reporting processes, accuracy and timeline. Your role will be a combination of recurring finance tasks and project based initiatives to improve the overall quality of controllership team within Airwallex.

Responsibilities:

• Own the financial month end close procedures for our recurring reporting processes including the review of regional financial data submission to FP&A and Tax

• Perform monthly closing activities in Oracle for APAC group of entities within the reporting deadline set

• Support project to expand our US GAAP reporting framework and develop internal accounting guidance to ensure accuracy and consistency in our reporting.

• Support and take part in wide range of improvement projects for the Controllership team within Airwallex, these projects may include 1) Enabling new products in our reporting structure 2) Business partnering with Treasury, Compliance and Legal, People and Talent 3) Any process improvement to that will help Airwallex’s controllership function to grow and mature to the next level!

• Close collaboration with our regional finance controllership teams to continuously increase the financial control on our financials including following up on all intercompany financial positions.

• Closely collaborate with product or business teams that require finance support on new product developments

• Close collaboration with other finance teams on department wide projects and change management

• Responsibilities of the role may develop over time.

What you bring:

• 5+ years of finance experience, Big Four experience is advantageous

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field, CPA or equivalent qualification preferred

• Basic understanding of financial services, fintech businesses and regulatory environments

• Strong knowledge on IFRS and at least a basic knowledge on US GAAP standards and being able to apply them in practice.

• Strong communicator and ability to interact with all levels within the organization

• Confident, and forward-thinking skills to deliver impact in a hyper growth environment

• Experience working independently and able to navigate ambiguity

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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.