Financial Analyst, Treasury

Airwallex • San Francisco, CA

1d • $80,000 - $110,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role will focus on building robust payment reconciliation frameworks and safeguarding processes across our global payment flows, ensuring customer funds are protected and financial operations run seamlessly end to end. As a Financial Analyst in our Treasury team, you will create transparency on cash positions, safeguarding compliance, and run rebalancing, providing senior management with the insights they need to manage risk and support scalable growth. This role is based in San Francisco.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Financial Engineering or similar fields;
• 2+ years working experience in an analytical role in Financial Services, Internet and Fintech industry is preferred;
• Strong analytical skills of working with very large amount of data and using tools to generate business insights, prior experience in end to end analytical process including data gathering, analysis, presenting and execution is preferred;
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to build relationships and work effectively with others.

Nice To Haves

• Strong interest in developing a career in Finance and Treasury, working knowledge of financial markets, banking/payment products and accounting standard is preferred;
• Prior experience with programming languages such as SQL, R and Python, AI applications, and analytical tools such as Tableau, Looker and Data Studio is a plus;
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, start-up and autonomous environment, have a level of maturity to run your own race within the organization;
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and urgency; a problem-solver who takes initiative and able to prioritize and execute tasks.

Responsibilities

• Improve transparency on Airwallex’s global cash positions, funding needs, risk exposures, and control environment by developing consistent reporting, analytics, and KPIs across all entities, and contribute to the standardisation and automation of these processes.
• Perform data-driven financial and reconciliation analysis on cash flows, payment volumes, safeguarding balances, and variances, translating findings into clear, actionable insights that support Treasury, Finance, and business decision-making.
• Design, implement, and continuously enhance safeguarding and client money controls (including account segregation, daily reconciliations, variance monitoring, and remediation workflows) to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk appetite.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to define reconciliation and safeguarding requirements, shape data models and tooling, and design operational workflows that scale with new products, geographies, partners, and regulatory regimes.
• Drive process standardisation and automation across Treasury and financial operations, reducing manual intervention and operational risk.
• Provide ad hoc support on Finance and firm wide initiatives (e.g. new banking partners, regulatory change, product launches, capital and liquidity projects).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level