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About the Role

The Product Compliance & Risk (“PC&R”) team supports Wise’s product development function, ensuring financial products are compliant by design. This role will work across Product and Compliance teams to advance the AML program, balancing customer experience with compliance requirements and detecting financial crime.

Responsibilities

• Focus on new products and features to ensure scalable and compliant MVPs are brought quickly to market.
• Remediate issues with existing products and features to ensure they remain compliant, scalable, and effective in detecting financial crime.
• Ownership of PC&R’s approach to AML control design and risk detection strategy.
• Collaborate with AML product teams to design controls and support interpretation of global regulation and expectations.
• Identify and drive enhancements to improve risk detection quality, unlock growth, and improve operational processes.
• Use data to define AML control effectiveness and support an ongoing testing / assurance program.
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to implement and prioritize control improvements and create efficiencies.
• Define project plans and facilitate end-to-end implementation for improvements identified in audits, regulatory feedback, incidents, or by third parties.
• Perform periodic reviews to ensure controls remain compliant and effective, translating changing regulations and guidance into product-ready requirements.
• Contribute to the mapping and assessment of controls as part of the annual financial crime risk assessment.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years’ experience working within AML/financial crime, with a particular focus on implementing and enhancing AML controls.
• Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to develop AML and/or financial crime controls in an in-house product environment.
• Experience in automation of financial crime controls, including reducing manual effort while maintaining/improving detection quality.
• Strong data analytics skills.
• Clear communication, project coordination, and management skills.
• Wisdom, a world view and talent for thinking outside the box.
• Professionalism and high integrity.
• Ability to provide clear rationales for teams, especially where trade-offs exist between friction, cost, and risk.
• Anticipate roadblocks, be resilient and not easily disheartened.
• Willingness to challenge teams and themselves on how to best serve customers, while keeping processes robust and compliant.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Skills

• AML
• Financial Crime
• AML Controls
• Transaction Monitoring
• Risk Detection
• Alerting/Decisioning
• Data Analytics
• Project Coordination
• Project Management

Experience Level

• Minimum 7 years’ experience

Education Level

• CAMS, ICA or equivalent certification desirable

Salary/Compensations

• GBP 89000 - GBP 127000 - yearly

About the Company

• Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
• Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
• Wise is on a mission to make people’s and businesses’ lives easier and save them money when sending money internationally, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments.
• We are people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice.
• 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.