Lead Analyst - Risk & Controls

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Company RSUs

London office benefits

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Lead Product Analyst to partner with product, engineering, risk and compliance teams to drive data-driven decisions for scaling risk controls across products. The role focuses on ensuring regulatory compliance across product streams and building guardrails for secure, compliant transactions globally.

You’ll scale risk data infrastructure, define control metrics, and collaborate with regional teams to monitor risk and drive improvements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a relevant role
• Strong analytical mind and product intuition in banking/financial industry
• Technical skill-set in Python, advanced SQL, BI tools
• Experience working with technical teams (PMs, engineers, analysts)
• Data-driven approach in complex environments with limited guidance
• Understanding of events data - Mixpanel / GA / Amplitude or similar
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, translating data into narratives
• Hustler-mentality: able to go beyond analysis and get things done

Responsibilities

• Scale and improve risk data infrastructure for regional teams
• Build metrics to monitor controls and support testing processes
• Establish control efficiency frameworks to reduce risk without hindering growth
• Partner with product, engineering, product risk, compliance and other stakeholders to influence decisions with data
• Collaborate with FinCrime to monitor local risk typologies within global risk engines

Skills

Analytical mind

Python

SQL

BI tools

Communication

Events data

Stakeholder management

Hustler-mentality

Tools

Python

SQL

BI tools

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’re looking for a Lead Product Analyst who is passionate about our mission of Money Without Borders to partner with our product, engineering, risk and compliance teams to help drive data-driven decisions that would support building and scaling risk controls and assurance across our products.

The focus of this team is to ensure continuous regulatory compliance across all our product streams. We’re the team that builds guardrails that ensure that our customers can transact on the platform with a peace of mind, knowing that their accounts and funds are kept safe, and products adhere to global regulatory standards.

How you’ll contribute:

• Scale and improve our risk data infrastructure to enable our regional teams to dissect metrics at granular levels to proactively identify and mitigate against drivers of risk.
• Building out the metrics to monitor our controls and ensure that they are performing as required, as well as supporting control testing processes.
• Establish control efficiency frameworks by analysing whether controls are effectively reducing risk while not adversely impacting growth.
• Partner with product, engineering, product risk and compliance and other cross-functional stakeholders to influence decisions with data around regional controls and risk.
• Partner closely with FinCrime to add a regional lens on global risk engines to ensure local risk typologies are monitored and appropriately managed.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Choose your path to impact – we believe people are most empowered when they can act independently. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls
• Grow as a Product Analyst – Grow and inspire your team and others across Wise
• Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our product while working with a group of multi disciplinary teams of amazing, smart and dedicated product analysts, engineers, product managers, researchers, designers and many more
• The freedom to have real impact – The opportunities you’ll identify are key to Wise reaching future millions of customers and redefining how payments work internationally at scale

Qualifications

Ideal candidate would have:

• At least 6+ years of experience
• Strong analytical mind and product intuition, centered around the banking and financial industry.
• Technical skill-set in Python, advanced SQL, BI tools
• Experience working with technical teams (PMs, engineers, analysts)
• Relevant experience in a data driven and complex environment with limited guidance
• Understanding of events data - Mixpanel / Google Analytics / Amplitude or similar
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to translate data into compelling narratives
• Hustler-mentality. You can take work beyond the analysis and get things done.

Good to have:

• Experience in Financial Crime and/or Customer Onboarding domain
• Knowledge of the fintech ecosystem
• Knowledge of utilities like Airflow/Github/DBT
• Experience with user-facing products and data

Additional Information

What do we offer:

• Salary: £75,000 - £115,000
• Company Restricted Stock Units
• Numerous great benefits in our London office

Key benefits:

• Hybrid working
• Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities
• 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave

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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