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About the Role

As a Global Risk Operations Program Manager, you will be the strategic engine behind an organization managing over $100B in annual payments and safeguarding over $10B in client and consumer assets. You will provide strategic oversight and drive critical initiatives across financial operations domains such as Collections, Billing, and Treasury Operations, protecting WEX's bottom line and transforming the customer experience. This is a high-visibility role ensuring operational integrity and fueling growth.

Responsibilities

Partner with Risk Operations Leadership to identify and document critical initiatives required to deliver operational risk targets and achieve customer experience goals.
Maintain a deep understanding of Global Risk Operations across Mobility, CPS/Travel, and Benefits LOBs to ensure initiatives align with unique regulatory, financial integrity, and operational needs.
Serve as the primary Global Risk Operations oversight lead for Capital Funded Initiatives and Product/Technology roadmaps, ensuring operational requirements are prioritized and tracked across the enterprise.
Provide rigorous oversight of the project portfolio, acting as the bridge between technical teams and Risk Operations to ensure product releases align with the organization's capital funding objectives.
Manage and report on a wide variety of projects with varying complexity, providing leadership with a high-level view of progress, roadblocks, and financial impacts.
Maintain constant visibility into issues and risks across the portfolio, driving teams toward closure and escalating critical items to senior leadership.
Conduct effective facilitation sessions with multiple stakeholders to move complex projects forward and reach consensus.
Translate complex workflows and technical specifications into visual artifacts using standard tools to ensure cross-functional understanding.
Build strong relationships and facilitate alignment across senior management, sales, account management, legal, audit, and risk departments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
7-10 years of experience managing a portfolio of interrelated initiatives (programs) within a financial risk operations environment, with a proven ability to align multiple projects to achieve overarching operational risk targets.
Demonstrated ability to deconflict resources and timelines across multiple workstreams to ensure consistent delivery of high-scale financial initiatives.
Proficiency in project management and visualization software (e.g., LucidChart, Draw.io) to translate complex workflows into visual artifacts.
Functional understanding of compliance and operational risk management to ensure Domain Leaders are engaged for the validation of SOX, SOC, and regulatory control integrity.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to research, analyze, and present complex findings to drive decision-making.
Must successfully pass a background investigation.
2+ years of experience building consensus and driving results through cross-functional partners rather than direct reporting lines.
Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, with the ability to facilitate alignment and consensus among senior management, legal, and audit departments.
Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment while managing multiple shifting priorities.
A dynamic self-starter who can work independently to drive projects to closure while also functioning as a collaborative team member.
Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with global leadership and functional SMEs to ensure project success.
High degree of attention to detail, specifically in documenting initiatives and measuring them against defined financial and operational metrics.
Experience managing projects within Collections, Payment Operations, or other Risk Operations domain.
Experience with international financial regulations.
Demonstrated organizational skills, attention to detail and multitasking skills.
Must be dynamic and a self-starter, able to work independently or as part of a team.
Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
Experience in compliance or operational risk management.

Skills

Project management
Visualization software (e.g., LucidChart, Draw.io)
Compliance
Operational risk management
Analytical skills
Communication skills
Facilitation
Relationship building
Attention to detail
Multitasking

Experience Level

7-10 years of experience managing a portfolio of interrelated initiatives (programs) within a financial risk operations environment
2+ years of experience building consensus and driving results through cross-functional partners rather than direct reporting lines

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Salary/Compensations

$110,400.00 - $132,800.00

Benefits

Health, dental and vision insurances
Retirement savings plan
Paid time off
Health savings account
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement

About the Company

WEX manages over $100B in annual payments (inbound and outbound) and safeguards over $10B in client and consumer assets.
WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being.