Product Compliance & Risk Manager - MEA
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Occupation TypeBusiness and financial project management professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£56,500
(£28.97 per hour)
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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.
Job Description
More about our mission and what we offer.
We are looking for a candidate ready to leverage their MEA regulatory and financial crime experience in a dynamic, fintech environment. This is an exciting, hands-on opportunity working directly with product managers, analysts and engineers to launch and manage compliant products.
Your Mission
Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Your mission is to enable our MEA Product team to launch new products, grow our presence and manage compliance risks in the region through a deep understanding of regulatory requirements and regulator expectations around them. Your main focus will be on the MEA markets, with the potential to cover additional countries as we grow.
This is a first line of defense, hands-on role, embedded in the MEA Product Squad.
Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the MEA Regulatory Product Compliance and Risk team, in the first line:
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.
Job Description
More about our mission and what we offer.
We are looking for a candidate ready to leverage their MEA regulatory and financial crime experience in a dynamic, fintech environment. This is an exciting, hands-on opportunity working directly with product managers, analysts and engineers to launch and manage compliant products.
Your Mission
Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Your mission is to enable our MEA Product team to launch new products, grow our presence and manage compliance risks in the region through a deep understanding of regulatory requirements and regulator expectations around them. Your main focus will be on the MEA markets, with the potential to cover additional countries as we grow.
This is a first line of defense, hands-on role, embedded in the MEA Product Squad.
Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the MEA Regulatory Product Compliance and Risk team, in the first line:
- Collaborate to design practical and customer-oriented product solutions while ensuring full compliance of the product;
- Perform pre-launch and ongoing product compliance legal risk assessments;
- Offer effective advice to Product Managers on existing and forthcoming Regulations, gaps, and risks.
Manage And Mitigate Regulatory Risks And The Control Environment
- Oversee the control environment for MEA, designing effective, creative and targeted controls and evaluating the residual risk exposure;
- Work with Product Teams and the wider Compliance & Risk Team to implement and maintain Management Information that enables Wise to make informed decisions at the regional and Global levels.
- Conduct audit management and, where required, challenge audit findings in collaboration with Compliance second line and Product teams;
- Develop and deliver effective issue management to mitigate regulatory risks;
- Represent Wise in meetings with Banking Partners and Central Banks, being able to clearly and effectively articulate Wise’s products and compliance framework.
- Grow your hands-on Fintech knowledge at full speed
- Build best-in-class products that are compliant for our regulators and partners
- Influence and be a part of Wise’s commercial and product strategy in MEA
- At least 6 years experience in regulatory and/or financial crime compliance within a financial technology company; added bonus if focused on South Africa
- Ability to analyze and interpret complex regulatory frameworks and apply them effectively
- Ability to effectively communicate with Product Managers and Engineers and provide practical, actionable, and value added recommendations
- Problem solving attitude, with the ability to use regulations together with data to drive business decisions
- Experience (or interest) in working in a fast-growing environment and working directly with product teams
- Willing to travel, as Wise offices are located across different countries
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.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.