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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
Legal at Airwallex sits at the heart of the decisions that shape how Airwallex grows. This team backs the visionary builders transforming Airwallex into a generational financial company, sharing the journey of product development and sales alongside our business partners. You’ll help shape a global licensing footprint most fintechs wish they had, while making sure our brand and data architecture stay best-in-class for customers entering the agentic economy and ready for its regulatory demands. The hard part is helping the business move fast on product, revenue, and new-market expansion without compromising the regulatory discipline that protects the moat.
It’s a team for lawyers, strategists, and regulatory specialists with commercial instincts, sharp judgment, and an obsession with customer-first outcomes. If you want to guide executive decisions and help build the licensing, structure, and judgment behind what comes next, this is where legal has real leverage.
What you'll do As Senior Corporate Secretary, you will play a pivotal role in Airwallex’s governance structure, supporting our board and senior management, and ensuring robust compliance and best-in-class corporate governance across our global group. You will lead the full spectrum of company secretarial matters for licensed entities across multiple regions and jurisdictions globally. This role is based in Singapore.
Key Responsibilities:
- Handle the full spectrum of company secretarial matters for licensed entities across different regions
- Organizing and facilitating board, committee and general meetings, including preparing agenda, resolutions, minutes and presentation materials
- Maintaining and handling statutory filings and statutory registers
- Handling group entities’ corporate matters, including incorporation, restructuring, capital injection, winding down and audit support
- Ensuring timely and accurate regulatory filings
- Lead the company secretarial function across jurisdictions and coordinate and manage external service providers
- Maintain and enhance entity management systems and corporate records
- Advise the board and senior management on governance, risk management, and compliance matters
- Support entity-level audits and due diligence processes for financing, M&A, and regulatory reviews
- Act as a key liaison with directors, investors, regulators and cross-functional teams
- Support the implementation of best practices in data protection, cybersecurity, and technology risk management
Minimum qualifications:
- Chartered Secretary / Chartered Governance Professional
- Qualified lawyer (Singapore or common law jurisdiction)
- At least 10–15 years of relevant experience, including significant experience in a regulated financial services or fintech environment
- Proven track record in supporting boards and senior management in a global or regional corporate structure
- Experience in a listed business
- Prior experience managing multi-jurisdictional entities and complex group structures
- Deep understanding of corporate governance frameworks, regulatory filings, and compliance obligations
- Experience establishing and maintaining board and committee processes, corporate records and entity management systems
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to interact effectively with Board members, investors, regulators and cross-functional teams
- Strong drafting ability and attention to detail, especially for board papers, resolutions and disclosures
- High integrity, discretion and sound judgment
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth global environment
- Proactive, hands-on and solutions-oriented
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience leading and mentoring a regional company secretarial team and managing external corporate service providers globally
- Familiarity with Singapore’s regulatory landscape for fintech
- Experience with data protection, cybersecurity and technology risk management in a regulated environment
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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.
