Senior Accountant, Americas

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles . You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

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

This role will be a key member of the Airwallex Americas regional team. As the Senior Accountant, Americas, you will own end-to-end financial controllership activities for Airwallex’s AMER entities while supporting group-wide reporting, audit, and strategic initiatives. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, maintaining strong governance and compliance standards, and partnering closely with cross-functional teams such as Product, Revenue Operations, Regulatory Compliance and FP&A.

This role offers broad exposure to controllership, fintech regulatory requirements, new product enablement, and global group reporting—ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced global environment and is excited to build and scale the finance function of a hyper-growth fintech.

This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

Use company provided AI tools to drive controllership improvement initiatives across the Americas—including process standardization, automation, documentation, and operational efficiency projects.

Review and prepare monthly financial closing activities for AMER entities working in close collaboration with our finance shared service center

Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, local regulatory requirements, and internal accounting policies.

Manage periodic statutory financial audits, regulatory fillings, and manage relationship with external auditors and third parties.

Support global group reporting processes, including quarterly close, consolidation reviews, and coordination with global Controllership and Group Finance teams.

Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to provide accounting advisory for new product launches, commercial structures, and changes in operational workflows.

Prepare technical accounting memos and support advisory topics (e.g., revenue recognition, equity compensation, M&A transactions, financial instruments).

Support compliance reporting obligations to relevant U.S. regulatory bodies and industry partners.

Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders such as Tax, Treasury, Legal, Risk, and Operations on regional or group-wide projects.

Responsibilities of the role may evolve over time as the U.S. business scales.

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