Airwallex
Airwallex
Airwallex is a fintech company building technology for global payments, treasury, and business financial operations. Its platform brings together business accounts, spend management, payment services, multi-currency transactions, foreign exchange, global transfers, and embedded finance components that businesses can use to create tailored financial products. Airwallex supports more than 150,000 businesses and focuses on secure, reliable, and compliant infrastructure for managing money across borders. Its hiring context spans teams working across financial technology, payments, finance, and the systems that support modern global commerce.

Financial Partnerships Operations Manager, EMEA — Vilnius (Hybrid)

Manage banking-partner operations for Airwallex across EMEA, supporting market expansion through stronger processes, governance, reporting, and cross-functional delivery.

Description

  • Oversee daily operations for Airwallex’s Financial Partnerships team across EMEA
  • Maintain relationships with banking partners and other financial institutions as the business enters new markets
  • Coordinate projects covering partner requirements, due diligence, regulatory and scheme changes, operational requests, and cross-functional implementations
  • Develop scalable processes, governance frameworks, reporting, and performance dashboards
  • Give senior stakeholders clear visibility into partner health, operational risks, and delivery progress
  • Work with Product, Engineering, Treasury, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Commercial, and Operations teams to deliver changes and resolve dependencies
  • Triage partner escalations and operational requests, directing issues to the appropriate teams for effective resolution
  • Update senior stakeholders and external partners on implementation progress, operational risks, and areas for improvement
  • Collaborate with colleagues across countries and time zones, with occasional flexibility in working hours

Requirements

  • Project management experience coordinating complex workstreams, dependencies, deadlines, and escalations
  • At least five years of experience in financial services, fintech, payments, banking operations, strategy, business operations, partnerships, consulting, or a related field
  • Experience improving processes, policies, products, or operational workflows
  • Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Strong analytical ability and proficiency with Excel, Google Sheets, Looker, or comparable reporting and analysis tools
  • Ability to apply critical and creative thinking while balancing growth, customer experience, operational effectiveness, and risk
  • Experience working with stakeholders across functions, regions, cultures, and levels of seniority
  • Ability to work independently in a rapidly changing environment
  • Experience in compliance or regulatory compliance is preferred
  • Experience working directly with banking partners, sponsor banks, payment processors, card schemes, payment service providers, local payment methods, or regulated financial institutions is preferred
  • Familiarity with payment flows, acquiring or issuing, network rules, scheme mandates, KYC or KYB, due diligence, or technical integration processes is preferred
  • Experience building scalable operating mechanisms, such as governance forums, partner scorecards, dashboards, QBRs, intake processes, or global playbooks, is preferred
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional implementations with Product, Engineering, Treasury, Risk, Legal, Financial Crime Compliance, Finance, Commercial, and Operations teams is preferred
  • Experience identifying ways to automate manual processes, improve partner economics, reduce operational risk, or increase execution speed and quality is preferred
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Bonus
  • Statutory minimum paid annual leave and public holidays
  • Additional company-provided vacation days may be available depending on location
  • Benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements

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