Senior Manager, Obligations Management

Overview

In this role you will own the global obligations governance, building and maintaining the central register of regulatory and partner requirements. You will integrate legal mandates with internal controls, and drive audit-ready evidence through a centralized RFI knowledge base and audit registry. You will partner with Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit and Risk teams to transform complex rules into scalable, data-driven governance. This position offers global impact across regions, shaping how Airwallex stays compliant while enabling growth.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain the Global Obligations Register, cataloguing international rules and partner requirements alongside compliance controls.
• Collaborate with Risk to structure controls and reporting for independent monitoring, validation, and testing.
• Manage the centralized RFI knowledge base, curating uniform evidence portfolios for partners and regulators.
• Own the global audit register, tracking findings and remediation to ensure timely closure.
• Ingest legal interpretations and horizon scanning data with Regional Legal to keep the registry current.
• Lead and scale the obligations management team, moving away from manual trackers toward GRC tooling and dashboards.

Key requirements

• 10 to 12+ years in corporate governance, regulatory compliance, internal audit, or operational risk in financial services/fintech/banking.
• 3 to 5+ years managing a compliance inventory or GRC program across multiple jurisdictions.
• Proven ability to map controls to international laws, supervise audit registers, and manage RFI mechanisms.
• High ownership, systematic problem-solving, strong corporate drafting, and ability to align regional teams with central standards.

• high ownership
• cross-functional collaboration
• analytical thinking
• GRC tooling
• policy mapping
• internal controls to regulatory mappings

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