Senior Compliance Manager & MLRO (Israel)

The Role As the Senior Compliance Manager & MLRO, you will serve as the primary head of the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) function for Airwallex Israel. You hold the ultimate responsibility for designing, implementing, and overseeing the AML/CTF program in strict accordance with the Prohibition of Money Laundering Law (PMLL), Prohibition of Money Laundering Order, and IMPA directives. You will also be the primary point of contact for Israeli regulators and law enforcement. In addition, you will work cross-functionally with Product, Commercial, Operations, Data, and Legal colleagues to ensure our controls effectively prevent, detect, and report financial crime while enabling sustainable growth. Key

Responsibilities Regulatory Leadership: Act as the designated Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for Israel, serving as the official liaison with the ISA, IMPA, and other relevant authorities. Program Ownership: Design and maintain the local AML/CTF/Sanctions compliance framework, ensuring it meets both Israeli statutory

requirements and Airwallex’s global standards. Reporting & Intelligence: Maintain oversight of the identification, review, and submission of Unusual Activity Reports (UARs) and any required threshold reports to IMPA. Strategic Risk Advisory: Provide high-level guidance on the onboarding of complex high-risk clients and the launch of new products in the Israeli market, ensuring controls are robust enough to satisfy local banking partners. Governance & Board Reporting: Lead the local FCC governance structure, providing the AWX IL Board and Global Risk Committees with critical Management Information (MI), including independent assessments of the entity’s risk appetite and control effectiveness. Audit & Remediation: Lead the response to regulatory inspections, internal audits, and independent AML reviews, driving any necessary remediation or control uplift initiatives.

Who You Are Minimum

Qualifications: Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Finance, Business, or a related field. Experience: 8+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, with at least 2 years in a senior leadership or MLRO/Deputy MLRO capacity within a regulated financial institution or Fintech. Regulatory Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of Israeli AML/CTF legislation, including the Prohibition of Money Laundering Law (PMLL) and related Orders. Regulatory Exposure: Demonstrated auditing/assurance background and prior experience interacting with regulators. Operational Authority: Proven track require in managing end-to-end investigation workflows and making final determinations on SAR/UAR filings. Stakeholder Management: Ability to credibly engage and challenge senior internal stakeholders and external partners (e.g., banks, schemes, regulators). Preferred

Qualifications: Experience in payments, fintech, or e-commerce, supporting cross-border products, card issuing/acquiring or or embedded finance use cases. Recognised professional certification in compliance or financial crime (e.g., CAMS, ICA Diploma). Experience operating within a global or regional FCC function, partnering across multiple jurisdictions and time zones. Prior exposure to sanctions, high-risk industry frameworks, and applying these to product design and onboarding. Strong ability to negotiate with and influence senior stakeholders, banking partners, and regulators to achieve compliant business outcomes. Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. 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.

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