Group Product Compliance Lead - Financial Crime

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Product Risk and Compliance Lead to join its Financial Crime Product team. The role focuses on enabling teams to enhance financial crime controls and requires a minimum of 10 years' experience in financial crime. The ideal candidate has strong data analytics skills and experience in leading teams. Join a diverse and inclusive team dedicated to making financial transactions easier for everyone.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience in financial crime.
• Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams.
• Strong data analytics skills related to financial crime.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product teams to design controls.
• Drive enhancements to improve customer experience.
• Define project plans for control improvements.

Skills

Financial crime control enhancements

Collaboration with product teams

Data analytics

Decision making

Team leadership

Experience across multiple regulations

Willingness to travel

Job description

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

We are looking for a Product Risk and Compliance Lead to join our Financial Crime Product team, working in our first line of defence, to take our AML/CTF programme to the next level. This role is a unique opportunity to directly impact Wise’s mission, whilst developing your skills as a Product Compliance leader.

Your Mission

Your mission is to enable our global financial crime Product teams (e.g. Fraud, AML, KYC and Screening) to launch new, and enhance existing, financial crime controls. You will achieve this through a deep understanding of financial crime regulations, financial crime risks, and by maintaining direct communication with regulators, auditors and industry peers to understand expectations and areas of opportunity.

You will be responsible for a Financial Crime domain, leading a team to:

• Collaborate with Product teams to help design controls and support in the interpretation of global regulation to ensure our in-house FinCrime product is best in class
• Identify and drive enhancements that could improve customer experience, unlock growth, or improve our operational processes
• Use data to define the effectiveness of controls and support the implementation of an ongoing testing program
• Work with Product teams to implement and Prioritise control improvements to strengthen our program while finding ways to create efficiencies
• Define and deliver project plans for improvements identified internally, by auditors or by third party stakeholders
• Perform periodic reviews to ensure our controls remain compliant—reviewing changing regulations and industry guidance
• Contribute to the monitoring, testing and assurance of controls as part of the annual financial crime risk assessment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience working within financial crime, with particular focus on implementing control enhancements
• Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to develop financial crime controls
• Strong data analytics skills which you’ve used to help articulate the health of a financial crime programme
• The ability to drive decisions, convincing internal and external stakeholders on control design and product execution.
• Experience leading teams, with expertise in scaling both team size and impact
• Experience working across multiple financial crime regulatory regimes across the globe, with an appreciation for the variance across markets
• Willingness to travel to Wise offices located across different countries

Additional Information

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.

What we offer: https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer

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.

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