UK Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager

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.

We’re looking for a driven, high-energy individual who will be joining our new Group & UK FinCrime Compliance Monitoring & Testing (CMT) team as a Manager. In this role, you’ll work closely with colleagues from a wide variety of teams including Product, Operations and Compliance to lead and execute both global and UK-focused FinCrime monitoring & testing / assurance reviews that protect Wise and our customers from financial crime. You will ensure that more junior team members adequately follow our monitoring and testing methodologies and industry best practices, coaching them along the way to deliver best-in-class work.

Your work will help ensure our FinCrime controls remain robust, scalable, and aligned with both global and local regulatory requirements. By collaborating with cross-functional teams and regional stakeholders, you will play an integral part in protecting Wise’s customers, reputation, and business operations.

Key responsibilities / Your Mission

• Control testing & issue validation: Supervise the control reviews end-to-end from Scoping to Reporting as well as our issue validation work, ensuring the team appropriately follows our methodologies & best practices and every deliverable meets top-quality standards. You will also ensure reviews are delivered in a timely manner.

• Monitoring: Lead the execution of monitoring activities over key FinCrime risks, looking for compliance gaps and actionable insights, and prepare monitoring reports that will be shared with management. 

• Coaching & Development: Provide guidance to junior CMT team members on an on-going basis, upskilling them and helping them understand methodologies, test scripts, and best practices.

• Stakeholder management: Work closely with senior stakeholders from all three Lines of Defense (Operations, Product, Compliance, Internal Audit) to ensure the effective and impactful delivery of our CMT reviews.

What do we offer: 

• Salary: £65,000 - £85,000

• 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.

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