Senior Product Compliance Manager, Payments acquiring

Wise; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial technology firm in London is seeking a Senior Product Compliance Manager to shape the Product Risk and Compliance Program. You will be integral in ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while collaborating with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in compliance roles and is skilled in handling regulatory challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in compliance roles, ideally in financial or payments institutions.
• Experience advising on card schemes or acquiring solutions.
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Shape the Product Risk and Compliance Program for acquiring services.
• Stay updated with compliance and regulatory trends.
• Report on the health of the Compliance & Risk Program.

Skills

Compliance background

Advising on regulatory challenges

Project management

Data analysis

Engaging communication

Fast-growing environment experience

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Senior Product Compliance Manager, Payments acquiring, London

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Client:

Wise

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Company Description

Your Mission At Wise, we are fully devoted to our Mission: Money without borders. Instant, convenient, and eventually free. Over 16 million people and businesses use Wise, which processes over £9 billion in cross-border transactions every month, saving customers over £ billion a year. We serve a wide range of customers from personal users, freelancers, small businesses and increasingly even to large enterprises and banks. Wise also offers over 50 currencies for customers to hold and convert money in. As an Associate Product Manager joining the Product Academy, you will be placed in one of our teams that both power Wise and ensure our customers have a safe and convenient experience when using us. You will get to build your skills in Product Management through a tailored learning program in combination with executing on real problems. After your successful graduation from the Product Academy, you will transition into a full-time member of the Wise Product team!

Job Description

Your mission:

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people and businesses to receive money across borders and currencies. Your mission is to shape the Product Risk and Compliance Program, for Wise to offer its acquiring services in many more ways, to many more Customers, in many more Countries- all of it compliantly.

This is a first line of defence hands-on role, embedded in the Global Receive Product Squad.

You will be owning projects, collaborating on and making decisions in the following areas:

Regulatory:

Stay ahead of acquiring compliance, schemes and regulatory trends

Translate and implement regulatory requirements, for Product and Engineering Teams to seamlessly execute on

Identify when local regulatory requirements can be executed by leveraging existing global controls and when unique requirements need prioritisation

Risk and controls:

Challenge any assumption that is not a correct reflection of the Wise’s program and coordinate evidencing controls as necessary, during any acquiring related examination

Define the Global Regulatory and Compliance Risk metrics for the acquiring products globally, supporting local teams to regionalise global KRIs

Coordinate prioritisation and efforts on issues, ensuring any necessary remediation is timely executed

Reporting and external engagement:

Report on the health of the Acquiring / Receive Compliance & Risk Program, in front of internal and external stakeholders (Global Committees, Regulators, Internal and External Audit, Banking Partners)

Lead Acquiring Regulatory, Fincrime and Risk discussions and forums

Take part in industry associations initiatives

This role will give you the opportunity to:

Grow your hands-on Fintech knowledge at full speed

Keep Compliance right at the heart of the product and engineering development cycle, in a fast-moving environment

Be empowered to identify regulatory and compliance issues or opportunities and take a lead in execution

Qualifications

About you:

You have a Compliance background, ideally worked at Financial or Payments Institutions, Law or Consultancy Firms

You have been advising and solving regulatory challenges on card schemes or other acquiring solutions ( QR codes, Local Details) for at least 5 years

Your experience spans across more than one area of compliance: from merchant risk to frauds, permissibility to fincrime, from consumer protection to segregation of funds, and more

You are a natural owner that drives and delivers projects from inception to completion, that can go into the details of each and every problem within their domain space

You are an engaging communicator, willing to collaborate with different audiences ( from Regulators to engineers)

You are analytical, use data to make decisions and challenge assumptions

You have experience (or desire) in working in a fast-growing environment and apply your previous industry experience in a new paradigm that reflects how Wise works

You are willing to travel as Wise offices are located across different geos globally

Additional Information

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