The posting, in Airwallex's own words
archived Oct 26, 2026About 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 2,700 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.
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What you’ll do
As the Senior Associate, Consumer Fraud Risk Operations, you will independently work on real time risk engine optimization initiatives to enhance merchant transaction success rate and reduce merchant’s risk level globally. You will be working within a team environment to serve as a credible partner that makes sound decisions and provides support to team members. Working towards understanding Industry risk idiosyncrasies and providing feedback to model makers and product managers, you will be one of key stakeholders to improve our merchant’s risk performance..
Responsibilities:
Optimize risk engine rules based on assessment of Airwallex’s merchant fraud & dispute pattern and commercial’s feedback Partner with cross-functional team to monitor merchant risk and payment performance and continue to enhance rules’ efficiency and accuracy Support merchant new product launch or sale event by providing best-in-class risk support Work with merchants on fraud or chargeback solutions and provide guidance towards the risk performance improvement plans Provide suggestions on current real time risk control products, policies, and processes in order to improve the risk prevention and operational effectiveness Envisioning and presenting AWX real-time risk solutions to internal and external partners to build up AWX’s risk brand Minimum qualifications At least 5 years of experience in fraud risk function with experience in payment industry Strong data mindset and analytical skills where SQL is a must and Python is preferred Deep understanding of payment real time risk controls and has strong ability to identify the risk and remediation actions Experience in problem-solving, including the ability to recognize non-obvious patterns and out-of-the-box thinking Has strong skills for improving rules, models and products Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment Skills to communicate key risk indicators with non-risk-colleagues are essential