Associate, Credit Risk Operations (Underwriting)

ABOUT AIRWALLEX Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 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.   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: 1. Assess merchant’s credibility in both onboarding and monitoring workflows, by verifying and analyzing merchant’s business information and financial statements. 2. Provide tailored credit risk recommendations that mitigate Airwallex’s exposure while facilitating partner company growth 3. 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 4. Deliver insights to support key business decisions ranging from onboarding strategies to pricing analysis and product launches 5. Lead process improvements to help the team deliver on key performance indicators and meet service level agreements 6. Provide feedback on data, tools, 3rd party vendors etc. for continuous ops efficiency improvement, along with on-going enhancements of policies and procedures. Qualifications: 1. 5 years of relevant experience with knowledge of commercial credit underwriting, financial statement analysis, and cash flow forecasting 2. Knowledge of merchant acquiring services and the payment processing industry 3. Effective communication skills; attention to detail 4. Be a team player, with strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal 5. Be highly curious and thoughtful - a proactive self-starter with a sense of urgency and bias for action, under a fast-paced environment 6. Be comfortable with complex data and analytics to draw meaningful insights. An understanding of SQL is preferred for this role. 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.