Senior Manager, Financial Partnerships, Banking & New Market Development, EMEA

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.

The role:

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Financial Partnerships, Banking & New Market Development, EMEA, to be based in London or Amsterdam, to own our key strategic relationships related to our banking infrastructure in the UK and Europe.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, ‘out of the box’ thinker, who has worked in the payments and/or financial services industry. Experience building and maintaining relationships with financial institutions in the UK and Europe whilst working at a payment institution/EMI is essential for this role. You must have a strong network of banking partners, financial institutions, and payment networks to help Airwallex scale.

You will:

• Lead, develop, and implement a banking partnerships strategy for the UK and Europe that supports our vision for Airwallex’s global collections and payouts network.