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As Manager, Regulatory Compliance (Mexico), you’ll lead regulatory engagement for Airwallex in the region. You’ll own licensing obligations, manage regulator relationships, and ensure compliance across the business — from interpreting requirements and coordinating cross-functional execution to delivering filings, renewals, and regulatory exams end-to-end. You’ll assess new and existing products, provide guidance to ensure 2LOD controls are fit for purpose, and partner with the first line to strengthen customer-facing and back-office processes while ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations.
Job Responsibility:
Support Airwallex’s regional expansion by leading regulatory compliance across licence applications, authorizations, and regulator engagement (including business plans and information requests)
Own ongoing regulatory obligations — including reporting, exams and inspections, and managing compliance risk within the Group Risk Framework and escalation processes
Advise the business on regulatory change, conduct risk, and licensing requirements, and help the first line strengthen policies, controls, and processes
Deliver the Compliance Monitoring Program, including thematic reviews and oversight to ensure organizational maturity and regulatory alignment
Drive compliance capability across the business through training and targeted projects that solve operational or strategic challenges
Requirements:
6 years of regulatory compliance experience in a financial institution, FinTech, legal / consulting firm, or combination of the above
Familiarity with financial regulatory laws, rules, regulations and industry best practices in Mexico but also more broadly across the Americas region
Data proficiency - ability to work with data and leverage it for strategic decision-making
Ability to operate strategically and think creatively to solve complex regulatory compliance challenges
Superior communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex topics to a wide range of stakeholders including regulators, executive leadership, and front-line staff
Experience with developing and/or maintaining a compliance program within a financial institution, preferably in respect of payments activity
Exposure to licensing processes, regulatory expansion, and RegTech or technology-driven compliance solutions
Understanding of financial products and related conduct risk, ethics, and controls
Fluency in Spanish and English is essential in both written and verbal communication
Nice to have:
Experience dealing with the CNBV (Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores)