Senior Manager, Model Governance and Data Standards

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 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 more than 37 locations around the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, 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.

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 Manager, Model Governance and Data Standards, you will play a critical role in establishing and maintaining a robust and formal governance framework and independent testing mechanism to ensure model and data standards are applied across Airwallex. You will ensure the framework is enforced with regular monitoring to confirm all models produce expected outcomes in line with business needs. You will also ensure that our models and data are used responsibly, ethically, and in compliance with regulatory requirements. 

This role is based in our Singapore or Hong Kong office.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain risk model register

• Create and maintain a model definition and governance policy (e.g. testing, roll out, monitoring) 

• Establish model risk appetite and tolerance levels.

• Ensure performance validation of models meets policy standards and remediate any findings

• Monitor model performance and identify potential risks.

• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

• Create and enforce data quality standards to ensure we are meeting privacy policy and infosec standards in coordination with data privacy officer and infosec teams

• Develop data governance policies and procedures.

• Communicate model risk and data governance findings to senior management.

• Provide training and guidance on model governance and data standards.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, finance, economics).

• 8+ years of experience in model governance, model risk management, or data governance, preferably in the financial services industry.

• Proven track record of developing and implementing model governance frameworks and data standards.

• Strong understanding of model development, validation, and monitoring techniques.

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements related to model risk management

• Strong understanding of data management principles and best practices.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders across different departments.  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in or with FinTech/Payment is significant plus

• Relevant certifications (e.g., FRM, PRM) are a plus.

Equal opportunity

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.