Product Finance Director

About the role

This role involves overseeing the financial and accounting aspects of Airwallex's core product offerings, including payments, foreign exchange, and wallet infrastructure. You will be a key partner for product, engineering, and treasury teams, ensuring financial integrity from the start of new initiatives. A significant part of this position focuses on transforming reconciliation processes through automation and AI.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Lead the adoption of AI and automation for reconciliation across various financial operations, including cash and intercompany transactions.
• Act as the primary accounting expert for all product-related fund flows, ensuring proper documentation and consistent application of accounting treatments.
• Establish and maintain a governance framework for accounting decisions related to commercial agreements and new fee structures, adhering to US GAAP and local standards.
• Manage the reconciliation and financial operations team, focusing on timely and accurate execution of tasks and improving close standards to T+3.
• Monitor financial risks by providing metrics for accounts receivable balances and credit exposures to the financial risk committee.
• Oversee the development of a scalable cost engine, defining cost drivers, allocation logic, and data sources in collaboration with other teams.
• Reconcile and continuously improve topline figures for both financial and management reporting, ensuring consistency between the two.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Legal teams early in the development cycle to integrate finance requirements into new products and features.
• Support the operationalization of a new FX Hub and related intercompany structures, leading the accounting design for hedging arrangements.
• Ensure the quality of ledger data that supports reconciliation, addressing structural data issues with engineering and operations teams.

Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive finance experience, with significant exposure to payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure.
• A Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• A builder's mindset with a genuine interest in AI and automation tools.
• Strong knowledge of payment product accounting, including clearing, settlement, FX revaluation, intercompany, and revenue recognition.
• Proven experience as a people manager, capable of developing teams and fostering a high-performance culture.
• Ability to manage stakeholders effectively, influencing decisions and communicating complex accounting information to non-finance audiences.

Nice to have

• Prior leadership experience in product finance, technical accounting, or financial operations.
• CA/CPA or an equivalent professional certification.
• Familiarity with data concepts, SQL, or scripting.

Skills & tools

• AI
• Automation
• US GAAP
• Oracle (movement types, BAM records)
• Leapfin (domain tagging)

Practical notes

Airwallex will not request bank details, sensitive ID numbers, or payments during the application process. All official communications will originate from an @airwallex.com email address. Apply only through careers.airwallex.com or the official LinkedIn page. Unsolicited resumes from recruiters are not accepted, and no fees will be paid unless a prior agreement is in place. Airwallex is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.