Group Product Compliance Lead - Financial Crime

Wise; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Product Risk and Compliance Lead for their Financial Crime Product team in London. This leadership role entails enhancing financial crime controls and collaborating with various product teams ensuring compliance with global regulations, aimed at directly impacting Wise’s mission. Candidates should possess extensive experience in financial crime and strong analytical abilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience in financial crime with focus on controls.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
• Strong data analytics skills used to articulate compliance health.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to design financial crime controls.
• Use data to verify control effectiveness.
• Define project plans for compliance improvements.

Skills

Data Analytics

Collaboration

Decision Making

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 complaint- 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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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