Country Manager - France

Wise; Paris; Sur place; EUR 80 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading financial technology company in Paris is seeking a France Country Manager to oversee local operations and drive market growth. The role involves engaging with regulators and managing compliance while leading product localisation efforts. The ideal candidate should possess strong regulatory management skills and fluency in both French and English. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the company's strategy in one of its key markets for expansion, offering significant responsibilities and the chance to impact millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Business fluency in French and English is required.
• Strong understanding of managing local entity operations and ensuring compliance.
• Excellent at managing financial regulatory relationships.

Responsabilités

• Define opportunities and direction for products in France.
• Identify ways to grow Wise and manage regulatory processes.
• Lead French operations and represent Wise to stakeholders.

Connaissances

Managing financial regulatory relationships

Understanding of local entity operations

Entrepreneurial mindset

Fluency in French

Fluency in English

Description du poste

Our ability to offer hyper‑localised products and services determines the quality of our service to our French customers. And our relationships with regulators, governments and payment systems are crucial too. So we’re on the hunt for an executor with a brilliant mind and strong communication skills to help more customers save money with us.

We’re looking for a France Country Manager. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to play a pioneering role to grow Wise in one of our key markets in Europe, France, allowing millions more potential customers to save money by using our services. You will have full responsibility for overseeing our local operations, defining our market expansion and winning strategies for product localisation, executing on them and being the face of Wise in France.

Your mission

Define the opportunities and direction for our products in France.

Collaborate across global and regional teams and inspire others so that we deliver the best solution.

Work closely with product teams (Product Managers and Product Engineers) to develop our vision and build better and hyper‑localised products and experiences for our customers in France.

Work with our global teams (Product Finance Treasury, etc.) to ensure our customers and products are at the centre of our mission.

Responsibilities

To deepen our presence and infrastructure in France.

• Identify the most appropriate way to grow Wise in France. If we need new licences and/or registrations to offer more products and services in France, you will work with the central banking and expansion team to manage the entire process: understand the regulations, prepare, coordinate and submit the application and obtain the regulatory buy‑in, as well as support the fulfilment of any other local requirements.
• Identify opportunities to offer the best product in the market taking advantage of our existing and future authorisations.
• Manage and support the day‑to‑day requirements for our authorisation in France both from a Product and Compliance perspective.
• Lead our French branch and operations into its next stage of growth.
• Be appointed as France Country Manager and be one of the Directors of our French branch.
• Manage the relationship with regulators and other important non‑commercial relationships such as with government departments. Represent Wise to the ACPR and the AMF and be accountable for good governance.
• Work with our team in our European headquarters and maintain oversight of Wise’s French business operations. Help guide strategy, provide leadership and alignment amongst the various functions responsible for ensuring the good health of the entity. Provide de‑facto leadership on the ground to local teams and functional leads to ensure smooth operations.
• Participate in all relevant committees and Board meetings.
• Represent Wise in France, working with Public Relations and Product Marketing teams to drive brand awareness and position Wise as a key industry player.
• Take ownership of maintaining and improving existing relationships with industry partners and other financial institutions. Lead commercial and relationship discussions with partners to ensure we offer the most sustainable and competitive service in the market.
• Create new opportunities within existing relationships with relevant financial and non‑financial institutions in France to ensure we continuously improve our product (i.e. increase speed, reduce costs, add more visibility to our transactions, etc.).

Qualifications

• Excellent at managing financial regulatory relationships and constantly creating opportunities to improve them.
• Strong understanding of managing local entity operations and ensuring relevant compliance.
• Able to get stuff done. Not afraid to get hands‑dirty to deliver what is needed – we’re a fast‑growing company and you will need an entrepreneurial mindset to thrive.
• Deep understanding of how financial payments and FX regulators work and the different decision makers that need to be taken into account to make things happen.
• Understand financial payments and FX regulation in a changing regulatory environment and have an interest in AML / KYC and risk controls.
• Familiar with different financial licensing frameworks and requirements in France.
• Business fluency in French and English.
• Happy to work independently and flexibly within a fast‑moving environment.
• Passionate about transforming the financial industry for good.

Additional Information

For everyone everywhere. We’re people building money without borders without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We’re proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full‑time