Senior Complaints Specialist, EMEA

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 250000 businesses worldwide including Brex Rippling 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 2300 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 youre 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 youre 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.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

The Role:

Were looking for a dedicated organised Senior Complaints Specialist to join us as we build our Complaints function in EMEA from the ground up - this is our first dedicated complaints hire in the region. Youll spend the majority of your time as a proactive high-energy complaint handler: resolving complex disputes and keeping pace with our regulatory deadlines. This is much more than a standard complaint handler role: alongside resolving complex disputes youll lead our monthly complaints reviews drive root cause analysis and step up complaints handling processes for the region.

Who you are:

• Youre a natural complaint handler you take ownership of a steady caseload resolve issues objectively and fairly and can turn a messy technical problem into a clear explanation for the customer. You also have extensive knowledge of UK regulations including DISP and the FOS complaints handling process.

• Youre organised and deadline-driven you manage your own schedule to make sure every case is resolved within the required legal timeframes without needing to be chased

• Youre detailed-orientated you can prepare thorough case files gather evidence and represent Airwallex professionally in front of the Financial Ombudsman Service

• Youre ready to step up youll run our monthly complaints meetings and drive root cause analysis across EMEA.

• Youre a great collaborator youll work closely with internal teams to fix the root cause of issues.

• Youre ambitious youre excited by the idea of shaping how we run complaints across EMEA as our first hire in the function and by helping us build how we use AI to handle complaints at scale

Responsibilities

• Manage your caseload: Take ownership of a steady stream of complaints meeting daily targets while maintaining high standards.

• Meet regulatory timelines: Manage your own schedule to ensure every case is resolved within the required legal timeframes

• Lead on regulator escalations: Manage cases that reach the Financial Ombudsman Service preparing thorough case files gathering evidence and drafting Airwallexs final position

• Own the regulator relationship: Act as the day-to-day point of contact with the Ombudsman keeping our responses professional timely and factual

• Lead our EMEA complaints reviews: Run our monthly complaints meetings bringing visibility to trends volumes and priorities across the region

• Drive root cause analysis: Work cross-functionally with internal teams to identify why issues occur and lead the push for long-term fixes rather than one-off resolutions

• Help build our complaints AI capability: As volumes grow help shape how we use AI to handle complaints more efficiently at scale

What youll bring:

• 5 years experience handling regulated complaints ideally within financial services

• Strong working knowledge of DISP and other relevant complaints-handling regulation

• Experience preparing cases for and liaising with regulators such as the Financial Ombudsman Service

• A track record of meeting productivity and quality targets in a high-volume deadline-driven environment

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

• Experience driving root cause analysis or process improvement cross-functionally

• Confidence using AI-driven tools to automate manual processes and improve efficiency

• Fintech or payments experience is required

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Operations
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1