Global Sanctions Product Compliance Lead

We’re looking for a Global Sanctions Product Compliance Lead to join our growing FinCrime Product team.  Sanctions is a key function in our Global Product Compliance team.  This role is hands-on, a unique opportunity to have an impact on Wise’s mission, grow as a product and compliance leader, and help save millions of more people’s money while protecting Wise from compliance risks.  

At Wise we believe that people who are closest to risks are the best placed to identify and address these. We are looking for a Sanctions expert to join the Wise Sanctions Product team, who will work with our product and compliance teams to ensure our sanctions controls are fit for purpose today and as we continue to scale.  This individual will lead a small but growing team across our Screening domain which also includes PEPs and Adverse Media. 

This is a first line Product Compliance team lead role, embedded in the Global Sanctions Product team. 

• Develop and implement an effective sanctions risk framework working closely with the Compliance Officers in our key markets. 
• Implement a process to proactively identify thematic issues/ areas for improvement and ensure their remediation is prioritized in line with the risk they pose. 
• Build a means to report issues, risks and opportunities for enhancement to senior management to give them confidence in our sanctions program
• Collaborate with our in-house Sanctions Product and Engineering teams to strengthen controls
• Data expert that can use data to determine control effectiveness, measure customer impact and articulate risk
• Identify opportunities to improve the customer experience by improving our controls, operational processes, or removing controls in line with regulation and risk requirements. 
• Create processes to demonstrate our product, compliance and operational effectiveness and structure
• Represent Wise on discussions with Regulators, Bank Partners, and Auditors. 
• Work with teams across Wise to ensure our sanctions program and controls are fit for purpose such as RFIs, Wise Platform, KYC and Payment operations. 

• 10+ years experience in a sanctions advisory role within the financial services industry
• An understanding of SWIFT payments,  cross border payments, card payments, prepaid access accounts and trade finance
• Ability to drive projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Previous experience with senior management reporting
• Strong subject matter expertise of OFAC financial sanctions regimes and regulations, knowledge of other markets is a plus. 
• Organizational awareness including working knowledge or risks, products, processes, and controls
• Experience managing a range of different stakeholders internally and externally
• Excellent communication abilities, both written and oral
• You have proven track record of taking ownership and responsibilities as well as being a great team-player
• You are able to persevere in a fast paced environment

🚀  RSU’s in a rapidly growing company after a year with us
💻 Hybrid working model – A combination of work-from-home and from the office 
✈️  Wisers can work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to
💪  An annual self-development budget
🩺  Medical, dental, & vision insurance – including HSA and FSA options
💝  Company-paid: Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and an EAP program
☀️  25 days PTO, 15 sick days, 11 bank holidays, 5 compassionate leave days, 3 paid “Me” days and a paid volunteer day, annually
🏝️  A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
👶🏼  18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us
💰  401k with up to a 4% employer match
🏆 BuiltIn Award winner for Best Places to Work and Best Large Places to Work
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