Regulatory Counsel, Americas
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Regulatory Counsel advising Airwallex’s global payments platform on payments, licensing and money-transmitter regulation. Supporting regulatory workstreams across the Americas.
Responsibilities:
- Support regulatory legal matters relating to Airwallex’s business across the Americas, including advice on existing licenses and registrations and potential future applications
- Research and summarize developments in payments and financial services regulation, identifying potential impacts on business operations and strategic objectives
- Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams on regulatory questions involving money transmission, stored value, FX, remittance, card issuing and related financial-services products
- Support Product, Strategy, Management and Commercial teams on new market entry, license expansion and regulatory mapping for new products and features
- Analyze how funds move through different payment structures and help identify applicable licensing and regulatory requirements
- Provide clear, practical legal guidance and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders
- Support management of external legal counsel and consultants, including preparing instructions, reviewing advice and tracking deliverables and costs
- Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses in relevant Americas jurisdictions
- Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into practical guidance, procedures and implementation requirements
- Leverage AI and other tooling to improve the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team
- Contribute to government-relations and policy work, including research and preparation for outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies
Requirements:
- Qualified lawyer with 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience
- Regulatory, financial-services or fintech experience gained in-house, in private practice or at a financial institution
- Exposure to payments, money transmission, e-money, FX, remittances, card issuing, digital financial services or another closely related regulatory area
- Working understanding of the US financial-services regulatory environment
- Ability to research complex legal and regulatory questions and translate findings into clear, practical advice
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain legal topics to non-lawyers
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, including the judgment to escalate issues appropriately
- Proactive, organized and ownership-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working through ambiguity, learning quickly and operating as part of a global team
- Experience supporting state money-transmitter licensing applications, renewals, examinations, regulatory filings or related compliance work
- Experience advising on consumer or commercial financial-services products, including familiarity with Reg E, UDAAP, TILA or similar requirements
- Experience supporting new-market expansion or regulatory analysis for new products and features
- Experience working with US federal or state regulators, directly or through outside counsel
- Experience in a mix of private practice and in-house environments
- Familiarity with Canadian payments or money-services-business regulation, including RPAA, FINTRAC or provincial licensing
- Experience using or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools to improve legal workflows
- Legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer
- Must not require sponsorship for employment visa status or work authorization
Benefits:
- Equity
- Bonus
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Basic life insurance
- Well-being benefits
- 20 paid days of vacation
- 12 paid days of company holidays
- Statutory minimum paid annual leave and public holidays
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