Senior Accountant, Americas

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 https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.   ABOUT THE TEAM The Finance & Corporate Development team at Airwallex drives the company's financial strategy and growth. Our team focuses on financial planning, analysis, and corporate transactions to ensure Airwallex's long-term success. We collaborate across departments to identify opportunities, manage risks, and execute strategic initiatives. Our goal is to support the company's mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime. WHAT YOU’LL DO This role will be a key member of the Airwallex Americas regional team. As the Senior Accountant, Americas, you will own end-to-end financial controllership activities for Airwallex’s AMER entities while supporting group-wide reporting, audit, and strategic initiatives. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, maintaining strong governance and compliance standards, and partnering closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Revenue Operations, Regulatory Compliance and FP&A. This role offers broad exposure to controllership, fintech regulatory requirements, new product enablement, and global group reporting—ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced global environment and is excited to build and scale the finance function of a hyper-growth fintech. This role is based in San Francisco. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Use company provided AI tools to drive controllership improvement initiatives across the Americas—including process standardization, automation, documentation, and operational efficiency projects. - Review and prepare monthly financial closing activities for AMER entities working in close collaboration with our finance shared service center - Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, local regulatory requirements, and internal accounting policies. - Manage periodic statutory financial audits, regulatory fillings, and manage relationship with external auditors and third parties. - Support global group reporting processes, including quarterly close, consolidation reviews, and coordination with global Controllership and Group Finance teams. - Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to provide accounting advisory for new product launches, commercial structures, and changes in operational workflows. - Prepare technical accounting memos and support advisory topics (e.g., revenue recognition, equity compensation, M&A transactions, financial instruments). - Support compliance reporting obligations to relevant U.S. regulatory bodies and industry partners. - Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders such as Tax, Treasury, Legal, Risk, and Operations on regional or group-wide projects. - Responsibilities of the role may evolve over time as the U.S. business scales. WHO YOU ARE We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field. - 5+ years of finance or accounting experience. - Strong knowledge of US GAAP, technical accounting acumen, and ability to apply standards in a rapidly evolving fintech environment. - Experience working in financial services, fintech, payments, or regulated industries. - Proven experience in financial controlling roles with a track record of improving processes and scaling financial operations. - Strong understanding of internal controls, compliance requirements, and reporting frameworks applicable to U.S. financial entities. - Experience supporting complex local or international projects, including systems implementations or operating model transitions. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner effectively across departments and seniority levels. - Ability to operate independently, demonstrate sound judgment, and navigate ambiguity in a hyper-growth environment. - Creative, proactive, and solutions-oriented approach with the ability to balance detail orientation and operational efficiency. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: - Big Four experience strongly preferred. - CPA or equivalent qualification preferred. - Experience working within Oracle ERP, Pigment FP&A, Looker dashboards and similar modern finance stack strongly preferred. 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 http://airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com http://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.