Senior Company Secretary
SG - Singapore · 10-15 years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10-15 years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- SG - Singapore
About AirWallex
- Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 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.
About the role
- The Senior Company Secretary will play a pivotal role in Airwallex’s governance structure, supporting the board and senior management.
- This role involves leading the full spectrum of company secretarial matters for licensed entities across multiple global regions and jurisdictions.
- The position is based in Singapore and focuses on ensuring robust compliance and best-in-class corporate governance.
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
Requirements
- Chartered Secretary / Chartered Governance Professional
- Qualified lawyer (Singapore or common law jurisdiction)
- 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
- Strong drafting ability and attention to detail
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Workplace
- Role is based in Singapore
