Apac Finance Manager/senior Manager

**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.

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 teams and regulatory reporting team and lead our efforts to continuously improve reporting processes. You support the investigation of technical accounting topics and share relevant guidance in the region (ie: for when we launch a new product). Your role will be a combination of recurring finance tasks and project based initiatives to continuously improve the controllership team within Airwallex.

This role can be based in Singapore or Hong Kong.

**Responsibilities**:

- Own the financial control procedures on our monthly reporting processes including the review of regional financial data submission to FP&A
- Perform monthly closing activities 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.
- Drive a wide range of improvement projects for the Controllership team within Airwallex, these projects may include:

- Enabling new products in our reporting structure
- Business partnering with Tax, Treasury, FPA, Compliance and Legal, HR
- 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 teams to continuously increase the financial control on their regional financials.
- 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**:

- Minimally 6 years of finance experience, Big Four experience is advantageous
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field, CPA or equivalent qualification preferred
- Strong understanding of financial services, fintech businesses and regulatory environments
- Extensive experience in a (Group) financial controlling role and proven track record of building and expanding these capabilities within an organization.
- Proven experiencing in managing complex, local or international projects focused on process improvement initiatives
- Strong communicator and ability to interact with all levels within the organization
- Confident, creative and innovative thought leadership and communication skills to deliver impact in a hyper growth environment
- Experience working independently and navigating ambiguity

**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.