People Operations Partner
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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 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 you’re 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 you’re 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.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.
About the team
People & Talent at Airwallex is a global team that designs and delivers the people, culture, and workplace foundations that help us scale at pace. We partner closely with leaders across regions to build high‑performing, engaged teams and a consistent employee experience. From hiring and onboarding to performance, development, operations, and workplace experience, we focus on practical, high‑impact work that supports our business and our people as we grow.
Role overview
As our People Operations Partner in Singapore, you will be the on‑the‑ground owner for day‑to‑day people operations mainly for our Singapore entity, but may be required to support operations in the rest of our SEA &EA regions. You will run the core HR operations rhythm across the full employee lifecycle, work with the payroll team to provide payroll inputs and HR governance in partnership with our payroll provider and internal stakeholders, and ensure our local processes stay compliant, accurate and scalable as we grow. You will also be required to continuously seek to improve our processes and/or automate processes.
You’ll partner with Singapore leaders and our global People & Talent teams, including our Shared Service Centre team to deliver both global and local people programs—making sure they land in a way that works for our SEA&EA team. This is a hands‑on role with a high degree of ownership in a fast‑growing environment.
What you’ll be doing
Day‑to‑day Singapore people operations
Own day‑to‑day people operations for our Singapore entity across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, changes and offboarding in HR System, payroll platforms and related tools.
Maintain high data integrity in our HR systems and trackers; ensure changes are processed accurately and on time.
Coordinate with various functions and managers to ensure a smooth experience for new joiners, internal moves and exits.
Payroll coordination and HR governance
Coordinate monthly Singapore payroll operations end‑to‑end in partnership with payroll vendor and Finance, including managing inputs (new joiners, exits, changes, allowances, variable pay), reviewing draft reports, and resolving discrepancies.
Ensure pay, tax, CPF, and other statutory components are calculated and processed correctly and