Senior Compliance Manager & MLRO, Mexico

What you'll do

As the Senior Compliance Manager & MLRO for Mexico, you will serve as the statutory Compliance Officer (Oficial de Cumplimiento) for our Mexican entity. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight of our Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) program, ensuring full compliance with the Fintech Law (Ley Fintech) and general provisions issued by the CNBV.

You will act as the primary liaison with Mexican regulators—specifically the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV), the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP), and the Banco de México (Banxico). You will partner closely with the Americas leadership team, Product, and Operations to ensuring our controls are robust, scalable, and enable Airwallex to capture the massive opportunity in the Mexican market.

This role is based in Mexico.

Responsibilities

• Statutory Role: Serve as the appointed Oficial de Cumplimiento before the CNBV, ensuring all personal certification requirements are maintained.
• Program Leadership: Manage the local PLD/FT (AML/CFT) manual and framework, ensuring alignment with the Ley para Regular las Instituciones de Tecnología Financiera (Ley Fintech) and the Disposiciones de Carácter General.
• Regulatory Liaison: Manage all interactions with the CNBV and SHCP. This includes overseeing regulatory reporting through the SITI PLD/FT portal (e.g., relevant, unusual, and worrisome operations reports) and managing regulatory inspections.
• Operational Oversight: Oversee the end-to-end execution of financial crime controls in Mexico, including KYC/KYB, transactional monitoring, and sanctions screening against local and international lists.
• Advisory: Partner with the Commercial and Product teams to support the rollout of new payment and card products in Mexico, providing "compliance by design" guidance that balances regulatory obligations with user experience.
• Governance & Reporting: Act as the Secretary of the Communication and Control Committee (Comité de Comunicación y Control), preparing monthly reports on the effectiveness of the compliance program.
• Audit Management: Coordinate the annual external PLD audit and internal compliance reviews, ensuring findings are tracked and remediated effectively.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, risk management, or internal control within the Mexican financial sector (Fintech, Bank, or SOFIPO)
• Certification: You MUST currently hold the CNBV Anti-Money Laundering Certification (Certificación en materia de PLD/FT expedida por la CNBV)
• Regulatory Knowledge: Deep mastery of Mexican PLD/FT regulations, the Ley Fintech, and the General Provisions applicable to Electronic Payment Funds Institutions (IFPEs)
• Communication: Native-level fluency in Spanish and professional fluency in English are mandatory. You must be comfortable navigating complex regulatory discussions in Spanish and reporting to global management in English
• Stakeholder Management: Strong ability to influence senior internal stakeholders and manage external regulatory relationships with credibility

Preferred qualifications

• Fintech Experience: Prior experience acting as a Compliance Officer for an Institution of Electronic Payment Funds (IFPE)
• Industry Background: Experience in cross-border payments, merchant acquiring, or card issuance
• Additional Certification: International certifications such as CAMS or ICA are a plus, though not a substitute for the CNBV certification
• Leadership: Experience building and managing a local compliance team

*Note: All applications must be submitted in English for consideration.

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