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Senior Director EU & ME, MLRO
Airwallex · Amsterdam
What you will do
As the EU & ME Regional MLRO, you will lead and scale the regional compliance architecture across Europe and the Middle East, ensuring overseeing and directing absolute financial crime compliance and control operation while supporting regional business expansion. Leading a decentralized team of in-country MLROs, you will serve as the primary liaison for regional regulatory bodies, oversee localized compliance operations, and monitor shifting regulatory developments. You will act as the definitive second-line regional authority and escalation point, providing compliance sign-off on complex risk decisions, guiding new license applications, and advising on product and customer use cases. You will work closely with the global FCC leadership team, product executives, and regional business heads to ensure compliance is a strategic enabler of growth. This role is based in the EMEA region.
What you will do
Lead, mentor, and scale the EMEA regional team of in-country MLROs, ensuring robust regulatory coverage, local compliance sovereignty, and consistent application of global standards across all active jurisdictions.
Act as the primary regulatory liaison for EMEA, managing day-to-day relationships, complex regulatory inquiries, and high-stakes examinations with regional central banks and financial authorities.
Oversee and execute local financial crime operations and reporting workflows in instances where regional regulatory mandates strictly require second-line actions to be performed in-country.
Monitor the regional regulatory landscape for shifting AML/CFT, sanctions, and financial crime developments, ensuring material updates are proactively analyzed and escalated to the Global Policy team for framework integration.
Serve as the definitive regional second-line authority, providing formal compliance sign-off on high-risk decisions and complex escalations elevated to the Governance and Risk Committee (GRC).
Provide strategic regulatory guidance and compliance advisory on Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs), novel customer use cases, and new regional license applications to enable safe, compliant market entry.
Lead the deployment and calibration of specialized financial crime compliance training curricula for regional business units, commercial teams, and in-country staff to foster a risk-aware operational culture.