Arbitration Specialist

WISE ASIA-PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise Asia-Pacific PTE. LTD. seeks an Arbitration Specialist focused on the APAC region to manage arbitration cases and interact with external arbitration bodies to ensure fair, compliant outcomes.

You’ll maintain relationships with regulatory bodies and contribute to policy and operational improvements within complaints and wider operations. You will work across Compliance, Operations, and Product teams, applying root-cause analysis and regulatory monitoring to scalable solutions while meeting

Qualifications

• At least 12–24 months in a Financial Ombudsman office, regulatory body, bank, or FinTech handling dispute resolution within APAC.
• Legal and regulatory acumen is valued; a legal background or compliance exposure is advantageous.
• Impeccable written and verbal English skills.
• Strong multitasking across channels (email, phone, chat) under pressure.
• Experience communicating across international, cross-team, or cross-geo contexts.
• Meticulous auditing of case files and evidence.
• Ability to leverage BI data and identify trends for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Investigate arbitration cases with thorough background information and evidence.
• Assess externally decided cases and ensure arbitration bodies have necessary evidence.
• Maintain APAC regulatory expertise; monitor changes and interpret impact.
• Contribute to policy and process improvements with compliance, operations, and product teams.
• Perform root cause analysis and share feedback with relevant teams.
• Defend Wise against reputational risk from adverse decisions.
• Ensure cases are handled within SLAs and regulatory deadlines.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to communicate case context to arbitration bodies.

Skills

Legal acumen

Analytical mindset

Attention to detail

Multi-channel communication

Cross-cultural communication

Organization & autonomy

Reliability & adaptability

Data security awareness

Customer focus

English proficiency

Education

Legal background (Law degree / paralegal / compliance)

Tools

Lightdash

SQL

Job description

We’re looking for an Arbitration Specialist to join our growing team, with a critical focus on the APAC region, where the role is based.

The Complaints Arbitration Specialist will communicate directly with Wise’s external arbitration bodies, representing Wise and ensuring we reach fair, compliant outcomes based on thorough case investigations. In this role, you will maintain professional relationships with arbitration bodies, contribute to root-cause analysis, and actively shape future policies and operational workflows within the complaints and wider operational teams. This role demands diligence, legal acumen, consistency, and the ability to handle sensitive regulatory information with the utmost care.

Your responsibilities:

• Case Management: Investigate arbitration cases thoroughly, providing comprehensive background information and evidence. Conduct internal audits of the customer complaint journey to ensure fair outcomes.

• Arbitration decision process: Assess cases and decisions made by external arbitration bodies, taking ownership of legally binding outcomes. Ensure Wise presents all necessary evidence based on this assessment.

• APAC Market & Regulatory Expertise: Serve as the primary expert for the APAC region. Maintain an in-depth understanding of local regulatory frameworks, evolving arbitration body trends, and the unique differences in jurisdictional complaints, ensuring compliance and optimal outcomes for Wise and its customers in the APAC market. Proactively monitor regulatory changes and interpret their impact on our customers and processes.

• Strategic Growth & Scaling Insight: Apply an awareness of Wise's growth and scaling challenges in the APAC market to all case management and policy contributions, ensuring solutions are scalable and future-proof.

• Cross-Functional Influence & Action: Build and maintain effective working relationships with Compliance, Operations, and Product teams to effectively translate arbitration insights and regulatory changes into actionable policy and process improvements.

• Root Cause analysis and feedback: Collect vital company data on complaints, record arbitration decisions for use in Root Cause Analysis, and share feedback with relevant teams within Wise.

• Mitigate reputational damage from adverse decisions: Defend Wise against adverse decisions to safeguard the company's reputation.

• Work across multiple teams: Communicate with relevant product/operational teams to ensure a comprehensive understanding of cases and the ability to articulate this information to the arbitration body.

• Consistently hitting SLAs: Consistently handling cases within Wise’s SLAs, as well ensuring we do not breach cases based on the arbitration body deadline.

• Strong Fincrime knowledge: Maintain up-to-date knowledge on scam and deactivation complaints, understanding how they are handled across the business.

• Contribute to the team culture in a positive manner: Positively contribute to the team culture by assisting other Arbitration Specialists and Complaints Officers, sharing decisions, and providing feedback when necessary.

Qualifications

• At least 12–24 months in a Financial Ombudsman office, regulatory body, bank, or FinTech handling dispute resolution, legal claims, customer escalations, or regulatory compliance within APAC markets.

• Legal & Regulatory Acumen: A legal background (e.g., Law degree, paralegal experience, or legal compliance background) is preferred, but not required. A strong foundation or keen interest in APAC financial regulatory frameworks is highly advantageous.

• Language Skills: Impeccable written and verbal English skills.

• Multi-Channel Communication & Multitasking: You are confident navigating and multitasking across multiple communication channels simultaneously - including email, phone, and chat - while maintaining composure, speed, and accuracy in high-pressure scenarios

• Communication: You’ve worked internationally, cross-team, or cross-geo before, so you quickly pick up on how to communicate effectively across diverse cultures, time zones, and matrixed structures. You welcome an open feedback culture, comfortably giving and receiving feedback across all levels of the organisation, and can adapt to Wise’s communication style.

• Attention to Detail: Meticulous, thorough, and accurate when auditing case files, compiling evidence, and submitting formal responses.

• Analytical Mindset & BI Tooling: Comfortable working with data, identifying patterns, and uncovering systemic trends to draw meaningful conclusions. You leverage data to make sound decisions and actionable recommendations to leads and cross-functional partners. Command of Lightdash, SQL, or other Business Intelligence (BI) tools is preferred.

• Problem Solving & Root Cause Analysis: Skilled at detecting problematic cases or workflows and escalating them effectively. You look beyond surface symptoms to uncover root causes using structured frameworks (e.g., 5 Whys, Fishbone diagrams) or demonstrate an eagerness to learn them.

• Organization & Autonomy: Punctual, highly organized, and able to prioritize complex workloads under tight regulatory deadlines. You operate autonomously, taking confident ownership of decisions on complex cases.

• Reliability & Adaptability: Committed to team goals, quick to adapt to regulatory shifts, and consistent in following through on commitments.

• Data Security & Customer Focus: Aware of and compliant with strict data security procedures. Above all, you are uncompromisingly customer-focused—our customers come first, and you consistently advocate for fair customer outcomes.