Senior Corporate Secretary

About the team
The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We're passionate about safeguarding Airwallex's operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

What you'll do
As Senior Corporate Secretary, you will play a pivotal role in Airwallex's governance structure, supporting our board and senior management, and ensuring robust compliance and best-in-class corporate governance across our global group. You will lead the full spectrum of company secretarial matters for licensed entities across multiple regions and jurisdictions globally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Handle the full spectrum of company secretarial matters for licensed entities across different regions

• Organizing and facilitating board, committee and general meetings, including preparing agenda, resolutions, minutes and presentation materials

• Maintaining and handling statutory filings and statutory registers

• Handling group entities corporate matters, including incorporation, restructuring, capital injection, winding down and audit support

• Ensuring timely and accurate regulatory filings

• Lead the company secretarial function across jurisdictions and coordinate and manage external service providers

• Maintain and enhance entity management systems and corporate records

• Advise the board and senior management on governance, risk management, and compliance matters

• Support entity-level audits and due diligence processes for financing, M&A, and regulatory reviews

• Act as a key liaison with directors, investors, regulators and cross-functional teams

• Support the implementation of best practices in data protection, cybersecurity, and technology risk management

Minimum qualifications:

• Chartered Secretary / Chartered Governance Professional

• At least 10-15 years of relevant experience, including significant experience in a regulated financial services or fintech environment

• Proven track record in supporting boards and senior management in a global or regional corporate structure

• Experience in a listed business

• Prior experience managing multi-jurisdictional entities and complex group structures

• Deep understanding of corporate governance frameworks, regulatory filings, and compliance obligations

• Experience establishing and maintaining board and committee processes, corporate records and entity management systems

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills able to interact effectively with Board members, investors, regulators and cross-functional teams

• Strong drafting ability and attention to detail, especially for board papers, resolutions and disclosures

• High integrity, discretion and sound judgment

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth global environment

• Proactive, hands-on and solutions-oriented

Preferred qualifications:

• Qualified lawyer (Singapore or common law jurisdiction)

• Experience leading and mentoring a regional company secretarial team and managing external corporate service providers globally

• Familiarity with Singapore's regulatory landscape for fintech

• Experience with data protection, cybersecurity and technology risk management in a regulated environment