Associate, Credit Risk Operations (Underwriting)

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 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.

The Role:

As an Associate, Credit Risk Operations, you will be conducting credit risk reviews of Airwallex’s clients within a team environment. The team works collaboratively with merchants, business development teams, transaction risk analysts, compliance and legal departments to support growth objectives while mitigating and managing risk

Responsibilities:

Assess merchant’s credibility in both onboarding and monitoring workflows, by verifying and analyzing merchant’s business information and financial statements.

Provide tailored credit risk recommendations that mitigate Airwallex’s exposure while facilitating partner company growth

Prioritize and process the review of incoming applications to verify their accuracy and integrity, interpret them so that they are concise, exact, integral, in compliance with the policy, and register them accurately and in a timely manner

Deliver insights to support key business decisions ranging from onboarding strategies to pricing analysis and product launches

Lead process improvements to help the team deliver on key performance indicators and meet service level agreements

Provide feedback on data, tools, 3rd party vendors etc. for continuous ops efficiency improvement, along with on-going enhancements of policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

5 years of relevant experience with knowledge of commercial credit underwriting, financial statement analysis, and cash flow forecasting

Knowledge of merchant acquiring services and the payment processing industry

Effective communication skills; attention to detail

Be a team player, with strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

Be highly curious and thoughtful - a proactive self-starter with a sense of urgency and bias for action, under a fast-paced environment

Be comfortable with complex data and analytics to draw meaningful insights. An understanding of SQL is preferred for this role.

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