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Published on 27 March 20263 minutes

Gain control, improve visibility, and save time with Airwallex Global Entity Management

Josh Gottesman
Staff Product Manager

Gain control, improve visibility, and save time with Airwallex Global Entity Management

Scaling across borders shouldn't mean losing control of your finances. Yet, as companies grow, financial operations often become exponentially more complex. Teams end up stitching together a patchwork of tools – from managing employee spend in one platform, processing vendor bills in another, and logging into multiple accounts just to check company balances.

When operations sit in silos, three major pain points emerge:

  1. No unified view of cash and activity: Without a consolidated dashboard, finance leaders can’t easily see wallet balances, money movement, or total spend across entities. This slows down forecasting, reporting, and decision-making.

  2. Fragmented controls and workflows: Every entity ends up with its own isolated setup. Finance teams must invite users, create approval workflows, and set up accounting integrations over and over again. This duplication introduces inconsistencies in policy enforcement, increases the risk of errors, and slows down your team.

  3. Disconnected systems slow down finance teams: Approvers often need to toggle between accounts just to review card expenses, reimbursements, or bills. When systems don’t talk to each other, simple tasks take longer, causing delays, compliance issues, and operational drag.

These challenges compound as your business grows, costing time, adding operational overhead, and limiting visibility exactly when you need it most.

A simpler way to manage your global entities

Airwallex Global Entity Management (GEM) is designed specifically for multi-entity businesses. It gives you central oversight and control across all of your entities so you can spend less time managing systems and more time focused on strategic priorities. With GEM, you can manage your balances, spend, users, and approvals across your entire organisation, no matter where your entities are located. By combining Airwallex’s financial infrastructure, including global accounts, transfers, and cards, with integrated spend management software, GEM brings everything together in one login, one system, and one global view.

Here’s what that unlocks:

  • Unified view of global finances: See all balances, transactions, payments, and reports across every entity in one consolidated view. No more logging into multiple accounts to piece together the full picture.

  • Centralised transfer controls: Configure and manage transfer approval workflows across all of your accounts from one place. Save time and scale your transfer controls as your business grows.

  • Global spend controls: Create and maintain a single set of spend approval policies that apply across all entities. Update a policy once and it cascades everywhere to keep global governance tight and compliance effortless. 

  • Streamlined spend approvals: Review and approve global expenses, reimbursements, or bills from one dashboard. Approvers don’t have to switch between accounts to find what’s waiting for them.

  • Simplified user management: Centrally manage and invite users across your organisation so your team spends less time duplicating user setups across entities. 

  • Centralised integration management: Connect and maintain external integrations, such as accounting software, from one place instead of configuring each entity separately. 

Trusted by global, multi-entity businesses

“Global Entity Management has been a game changer. Bills and approvals all in one screen. We can easily consolidate balances between entities and currencies. If we have a big bill in the US we can move money from New Zealand to the US instantly.” – Josh Hawkey, Financial Controller, Tracksuit

“Airwallex keeps a sharp eye on business operations and moves swiftly to eliminate pain points when managing our financial operations across 20+ entities. It delivers strong control, global reach, and powerful payment processing capabilities that fire with precision.” – CFO, EasyGo

“With high-frequency and high-value transactions spanning over 50 countries, we needed a solution to help us manage our global operations.” – Ben Lustenhouwer, CFO, Nivoda

“We can see everything that’s going on for the business from a financial perspective. We're no longer separate brands working next to each other anymore – we're one big brand working towards a common goal.” – Senior Finance Manager, Rezdy

Scale your global operations with confidence

Airwallex helps businesses streamline operations and unlock new opportunities across borders. With global business accounts, powerful payment acceptance solutions, corporate cards, and integrated spend management workflows, we enable teams to operate with clarity and control. 

Global Entity Management extends that even further, giving multi-entity organisations the visibility and efficiency they need to scale without added operational complexity.

If you’re an Airwallex customer, reach out to your account team to enable Global Entity Management. If you’re new to Airwallex, you can sign up online and start managing your global finances from one unified platform.

Josh Gottesman
Staff Product Manager

Josh Gottesman is a Staff Product Manager at Airwallex where he leads Global Entity Management and Analytics for the company's spend management product. Since joining in 2024, he has driven Global Entity Management from conception to rollout for 1000s of customers. Josh brings a diverse background to his role, combining experience as a former entrepreneur, member of the Google Business Operations team, and strategy consultant.

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