Manager, Operations, South Korea

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

About the team

The Operations team at Airwallex ensures the smooth and efficient functioning of our services and processes. We focus on optimizing workflows, improving operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional customer support. By streamlining operations and implementing best practices, we help drive the company's growth and maintain high service standards. Our team is dedicated to providing a seamless experience for our customers and supporting Airwallex’s mission to empower businesses globally.

About the Role

Based in our South Korea office (Seoul), this role will own the South Korea operations function to ensure our current and future customers have a seamless experience with Airwallex. With our business continuing to expand globally and our South Korea client base scaling rapidly, the Operations Manager will have the opportunity to build and lead a team in a way that is scalable and efficient.

Through optimising current operations processes and implementing new ones, the ultimate goal of this function is to ensure all local rules and regulations are followed and that the end-user experience is seamless.

What you'll do

• Identify and drive strategic projects to improve our customer experience, as well as help operationalize various internal Airwallex functions
• Take a data-driven approach to problem solving
• Work across functions to ensure stakeholder alignment and deliver desired outcomes
• Help build processes relating to customer support
• Manage the daily operation and monitoring of AML/compliance programs
• Work with the Compliance Manager to operationalise emerging regulatory and compliance requirements (such as KYC, AML, CTF) on a regular basis
• Work with the product teams to promote our Operations product and excellence our operations affairs
• Monitoring and improving the efficiency of key compliance operations functions including transaction monitoring, KYC, and name screening
• Monitoring payment and treasury related operations for the regional business
• Help define key KPIs and build the appropriate reports to improve the customer experience while driving efficiency improvements
• Who You Are
• A natural leader - You have strong leadership skills that enable you to influence and motivate those around you
• A decision-maker - You are not afraid to call the shots in order to move forward
• A people person - building relationships with internal and external stakeholders comes easily to you
• Extremely curious - Your analytical skills are second to none and excel gets you excited
• Process driven - You enjoy following and creating procedures to ensure an efficient and well-documented process
• A team player - But you enjoy working independently as much as you enjoy working with a team
• A master prioritiser - You use your sound judgment to assess all of the tasks at hand and make the decision on the order in which you complete each task

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• 7+ years relevant experience
• Experience working in a global environment is preferred
• Experience in FinTech or start-up or fast-growing tech company experience is preferred
• Experience in Top-tier strategy/management consulting is preferred
• Fluency in English and Korean
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• 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.