Airwallex
Enterprise Risk Manager - UAE
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Location
- AE - Abu Dhabi · AE - Dubai
- Published
- Oct 2, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
About this role
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 2,700 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.
HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT
As Enterprise Risk Manager - UAE, you’ll help establish and evolve Airwallex’s enterprise risk management capability in the UAE while contributing to the broader global and regional risk agenda. You’ll operationalise Airwallex’s global enterprise risk architecture locally, covering risk appetite, taxonomy, governance standards, risk limits, escalation protocols, reporting and decision rights. You’ll partner with Regulatory Compliance, Legal, UAE leadership, Product, Engineering and Operations to support responsible growth as Airwallex operationalises its UAE entity and expands its regulated payments offering. You’ll translate risk data, incidents, issues, trends and key risk indicators into clear reporting for UAE management, regional leadership, risk committees and, where appropriate, the Board or regulators, while providing independent second-line challenge on initiatives, products, partnerships and material operating-model changes.
- Own the local implementation of Airwallex’s global enterprise risk architecture, including risk appetite, risk taxonomy, governance standards, risk limits, escalation protocols, reporting and decision rights.