Top Finance Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Own end-to-end controllership for Airwallex Americas: monthly close, US GAAP compliance, audits, regulatory filings, group consolidation, accounting advisory for products, process automation, and cross-functional partnership across Tax, Treasury, Legal, Risk, and Operations.

Leads global Risk Operations across onboarding, periodic reviews, and in-life behavior for payments, issuing, and credit products. Owns strategy, staffing, 24/7 coverage, performance management, procedures, control frameworks, documentation, and AI transformation. Partners with Risk, Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams to balance risk, customer experience, scalability, and financial impact across multiple jurisdictions.

Manage global merchant credit risk by assessing prospective and existing merchants, defining KPIs and monitoring frameworks, building SOPs, creating reporting/dashboarding, partnering with Legal/Compliance/BD, and balancing growth with risk mitigation across payment channels.

Build and lead Airwallex's first-line commercial risk function, defining risk strategy and supportability frameworks, advising on complex deals, embedding commercial guardrails, designing portfolio monitoring and KPIs, leading incident post-mortems, and partnering cross-functionally to scale global coverage and train front-office teams.

Lead strategic financial planning, forecasting, capital allocation, and performance analysis. Produce executive and board materials, influence cross-functional initiatives, mentor Strategic Finance team members, and improve finance systems and decision frameworks for a global scaling company.

Leads independent monitoring of Airwallex’s global financial crime compliance framework, assessing AML and sanctions controls, identifying gaps and emerging risks, and driving remediation. The role builds risk-based monitoring across key FCC areas, reports program effectiveness and risk exposure to senior leadership and the Board, and partners with FCC, MLRO, Risk, Legal, Product, Operations, and Technology stakeholders.

Leads Airwallex’s global Onboarding and Financial Crime Operations organization across KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, investigations, and periodic reviews. Owns strategy, staffing, operating procedures, performance management, controls, documentation, and continuous improvement across multiple jurisdictions. Partners with Compliance, Risk Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams to balance risk, customer experience, scalability, and cost. Drives AI and automation transformation, manages outsourced capacity, and ensures consistent operational execution across markets.