Role details
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.
- More about our mission and what we offer .
Job Description
- We're looking for a Product Compliance and Risk Manager with a specialisation in financial crime to join our APAC Wise Platform team.
- This is a high impact, strategic role designed to move our financial crime framework beyond global baselines, deeply localising and scaling our products across APAC.
- This is a first line Product Compliance role, embedded in the APAC and Wise Platform Squad.
- You will not be managing operational alerts; instead, you will design systemic product controls that prevent financial crime at scale.
Your scope includes:
Financial crime regulatory and control assessments
- Own the WP control framework: Move our product compliance assessments from generic global baselines to bespoke, market-specific frameworks.
- Rigorous rule testing: Execute rigorous testing of financial crime methodology and rules to verify that they are working appropriately, designing new controls where required.
- Retrospective and future-proofing: Lead deep-dive retrospectives on existing live products and partnerships while similarly setting up compliant compliance foundations for new products prior to launch.
Regional localisation and global alignment
- APAC smart localisation: Specifically assess how global financial crime controls land in APAC. You will ensure local nuances, partner expectations, and regional regulations are deeply embedded into the core global WP framework.
- Global voice: Act as the primary advocate for APAC Wise Platform Product Compliance within global infrastructure teams, ensuring regional risks are prioritised.
Strategic issue management and remediation
- Proactive gap management: Identify, scope and resolve known and unknown gaps across our retail offering and specialised WP product solutions.
- Risk-based prioritisation and resolution: Apply your financial crime and regulatory expertise to determine high impact issues to resolve on a timely basis.
Product, engineering and partner negotiation
- Commercial enablement: Unblock our commercial and sales teams by applying a pragmatic, risk-based approach to institutional partner solutions.
- Control design: Collaborate with global and regional Product and Engineering teams to translate regulatory needs into market-specific, technical product requirements.
Qualifications
Must have:
- At least 6 years experience in regulatory assurance or financial crime compliance within a financial technology company; added bonus if focused on correspondent banking, remittance, financial services partnerships across APAC markets.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex regulatory frameworks and apply them effectively.
- Problem solving attitude, with the ability to use regulation together with data to drive business decisions.
- A natural owner that drives and delivers projects to completion proactively, timely and with attention to the details.
Nice to have
- A team player with a collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively with different stakeholders such as Product, Commercial teams and Compliance.
- Ability to effectively and clearly communicate and provide practical, actionable, and value added recommendations.
- Willingness 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 .