Senior GRC Specialist

ABOUT AIRWALLEX
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.
We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE IMPACT
As a Senior GRC Specialist, you'll act as the regional anchor for Mexico City while integrating closely with Airwallex's global Information Security team. Reporting to the Senior GRC Manager, you'll serve as a regional point of contact for government and regulatory bodies in Mexico, helping design and implement policies that balance regional requirements with global standards.
– Manage and monitor security controls, executing to a high standard while continuously refining and iterating.
– Serve as a trusted contact for Mexican regulatory bodies, customers, partners, and vendors, helping shape external understanding of Airwallex's security posture in the region.
– Use AI and automation to streamline compliance and security work, including reporting and communications.
– Develop and maintain security documentation, including standards, policies, reporting metrics, dashboards, and evidence artefacts for internal and external stakeholders.
– Act as a subject matter expert and generalist for security compliance in the Mexico region, balancing strategic ownership with practical, hands-on security work.
– Drive initiatives independently using project management experience, without being bound to traditional solutions or methodologies.
You'll work from our Mexico City or San Francisco office three days a week.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
ESSENTIALS
– 5–7 years of cybersecurity experience, with a proven ability to work and execute independently.
– Must hold a Mexican Tax ID (RFC) or have dual Mexican citizenship, as this role directly owns and represents the Mexico City region.
– Fluent in both English and Spanish, written and spoken.
– Deep knowledge of relevant compliance and control frameworks such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and similar standards, with a strong understanding of what makes a successful information security audit.
– Strong familiarity with Information Security concepts, practices, and solutions, whether from a technical background or through close collaboration with engineering teams.
– Working knowledge of policy creation and maintenance, including tuning policies to meet complex regulatory requirements.
– Working understanding of complex cloud environments and how they affect modern security and compliance operations.
– Ability to act as a subject matter expert and generalist for security compliance in the Mexico region.
– Experience managing the implementation and monitoring of security controls.
– Ability to develop and maintain security documentation, including standards, policies, reporting metrics, dashboards, and evidence artefacts.
– Experience driving initiatives independently and balancing strategic ownership with practical, hands-on security work.
PREFERRED
– Prior experience in the fintech industry.
– Knowledge of security compliance specific to the finance industry or the Mexican or LATAM region.
– Understanding of financial services or payments.
– Experience applying AI and automation to compliance, security operations, reporting, or communications.
– An industry-leading security degree or certification, such as a BS or MS in Cybersecurity, CISSP, CEH, or CISA.
– Experience using project management skills to deliver initiatives without being bound to traditional solutions or methodologies.
YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF
– You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.
– You're comfortable with ambiguity. Give you a problem, not a prescription, and you'll run with it.
– You hold yourself to a high standard even when no one is watching. Quality and accountability aren't external expectations, they're internal ones.
– You've operated in a compliance-heavy environment and know how to move fast without cutting the corners that matter.
– You enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing your hours occasionally to make that connection work.
LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR TEAM
InfoSec at Airwallex runs one of the most modern security teams in the world, protecting hundreds of thousands of customers and hundreds of billions of dollars. Our scale, funding, and industry make us a real target, so we skip the standard playbook of off-the-shelf tools and tiered SOC analysts and build almost everything ourselves, often with AI ahead of the rest of the industry. You'll go back to first principles constantly, because the off-the-shelf answer is rarely right for us, and we can build better than what already exists. If you want to build security from the ground up, against a real adversary, with people who are actually good at this, this is the team for you.
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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 don’t 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.