Lead Product Analyst - FinCrime

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

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Lead Analyst to partner with financial crime product teams, transforming large datasets into actionable insights. You will own key metrics, collaborate with data scientists, and help design models and rules to mitigate financial crime while balancing user experience and risk.

This IC3 role offers the chance to influence product direction, work with a global team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers, and drive data-driven decisions across Wise’s AML initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative skills across statistics, maths or a related field.
• Experience with SQL and Python.
• Ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions.
• Ability to structure problems with minimal supervision and simplify complex ideas.
• Hustler mentality with a track record of delivering beyond analysis.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, PowerBI, Tableau) and storytelling with data.
• 4+ years of data analysis in a professional setting.

Responsibilities

• Expose data across Wise to product teams in a meaningful, actionable way.
• Own and track key product and operations metrics quarterly.
• Collaborate with data scientists to detect and mitigate financial crime.
• Build scalable risk and customer experience data frameworks.
• Drive discovery by scoping new opportunities and suggesting features, rules, models.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Scientists, Engineering and Operations teams.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

SQL

Python

Communication

Problem structuring

Data visualization

Looker

PowerBI

Tableau

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

• Compensation: GBP 75,000 - GBP 115,000 - yearly

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.

We’re looking for a Lead Analyst who is passionate about our mission of Money Without Borders to partner with our financial crime product teams to help drive data-driven and innovative growth decisions while helping to combat financial crime.

At Wise, we strike a critical balance between user experience and the stringent demands of risk prevention. Our mission within the AML team is to stay one step ahead of money laundering activities while ensuring that our customers enjoy a seamless experience. In this vital role, you will innovate and implement controls that enhance security without compromising user convenience.

Most importantly, you’ll collaborate closely with your product managers, designers, data scientists and engineers to bring your insights into real change for our customers and help drive our mission!

This is an IC3 role.

Your mission:

At Wise our mission is Money Without Borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free. Whether our customers are sending money to another country, spending money abroad, or making and receiving international business payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Financial Crime team:

You’ll expose the vast data on our processes to the product teams across Wise in a meaningful and actionable way in which people can proactively access the information without friction or need for analyst assistance

Proactively contribute to, own, create, track key metrics and results for your product and operational teams, keeping them accountable throughout the quarter

Work with data scientists in understanding and developing the means for detecting and mitigating financial crime

Building the framework for managing risk and customer experience at scale

Drive the discovery phase by scoping new opportunities and suggesting features, rules and models to combat emerging risks

The role requires collaboration with Product, Data Scientists, Engineering and Operations Team

This role will give you the opportunity to:

Be part of a positive change in the world. We’re fixing a broken, greedy system, and putting people and businesses in control of their money

Create value from extensive datasets. We have millions of customers, a global set of payment infrastructure and a complex product that customers can use in different ways. There is a tonne of value left to unlock from this data!

Influence the team’s direction. Analysts at Wise enable data-driven decision making and have a large impact by helping their teams to decide what to work on.

Learn from a global network of professionals. We have a large, diverse team of analysts, data scientists and product managers that you will work with and learn from.

Qualifications

A bit about you:

You have strong quantitative skills. Ideally a background in statistics, maths, physics, engineering, or other scientific area

You have experience with SQL and Python

You have strong communication skills and an ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions

You have an ability to structure business problems with minimal supervision and an ability to prioritise problems independently, as well as condense complex systems/ideas into simple-to-understand models

Hustler-mentality. You can take work beyond the analysis and get things done

You have experience with data visualisation tools (Looker, PowerBI, Tableau etc.) and demonstrate storytelling ability with data

You have 4+ YOE analysing data in a professional setting

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.

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

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