Airwallex is hiring an Associate Director, Strategic Finance in California. It is a hybrid full-time role, so plan on splitting your week between home and the office. The salary range published with the job is $165,000 to $225,000 a year.
Airwallex describes the job as follows.
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 to see it in full.
The Finance & Corporate Development team at Airwallex drives the company's financial strategy and growth. Our team focuses on financial planning, analysis, and corporate transactions to ensure Airwallex's long-term success. We collaborate across departments to identify opportunities, manage risks, and execute strategic initiatives. Our goal is to support the company's mission to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.
What you'll do
Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance, you will operate as a senior leader within the team, owning critical parts of Airwallex’s financial strategy and influencing company-wide decision-making. This is a highly visible role with direct exposure to executive leadership, where you will shape strategic direction, drive financial rigor, and ensure alignment between long-term vision and near-term execution.
You will lead complex, high-impact initiatives across planning, performance management, and corporate strategy-bringing structure to ambiguity and driving clarity in decision-making. Beyond analysis, you will play a key role in influencing outcomes, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring disciplined execution across the organization.
You are both a strategic thinker and an operator: equally comfortable building detailed financial models, crafting executive narratives, and leading cross-functional initiatives. You bring strong business judgment, a bias for action, and the ability to scale impact through others.
This role can be based in San Francisco.
Own and lead strategic financial planning processes, including long-range planning, annual budgeting, and forecasting across business units
Drive company-level financial insights and narratives, shaping materials for board meetings, investor communications, and executive decision-making
Lead capital strategy and capital allocation decisions, ensuring resources are deployed effectively against the company’s highest priorities
Partner with senior leadership (Product, GTM, Operations) to evaluate and influence major strategic initiatives such as new market entry, product investments, pricing strategies, and partnerships
Oversee business performance analysis, identifying key drivers, risks, and opportunities while ensuring accountability against targets
Build, mentor, and scale talent within the Strategic Finance function, raising the bar on analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and execution
Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve financial visibility, operational efficiency, and decision-making frameworks across the company
Enhance finance infrastructure, including reporting systems, tools, and processes to support a global, scaling organization
We’re looking for individuals with strong analytical foundations, sharp business judgment, and the ability to turn insight into action. The minimum qualifications are essential to succeed in this role. Preferred qualifications help you stand out, but are not mandatory.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, or a related field
8+ years of experience across strategic finance, management consulting, investment banking, or private equity
Proven experience operating at a senior level, influencing executives and driving company-wide initiatives
Advanced financial modeling skills with the ability to design and own complex models that inform critical decisions
Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving ability, with a track record of navigating ambiguity and delivering outcomes
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership or boards
Demonstrated leadership experience, including mentoring team members and leading cross-functional workstreams
Strong commercial acumen and deep understanding of business performance drivers in a scaling company
Experience in high-growth environments, ideally within the Technology space
Have worked in top-tier management consulting, investment banking, or private equity firms
Experience with capital markets, fundraising, or IPO readiness
Familiarity with SQL, business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau), and/or working with large, complex datasets across functions and regions
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 email address. Please apply only through 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.
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.
Airwallex advertises $165,000 to $225,000 a year for this role.
It is hybrid. You would work partly from home and partly from the office in California.
The posting mentions at least 8 years of relevant experience, a bachelor's degree or equivalent and skills such as SQL, Tableau, Stakeholder Management and Financial Modeling. Read the full description above for the complete list.
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