Lead Product Analyst - Risk & Controls

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 Lead Product Analyst who is passionate about our mission of Money Without Borders to partner with our product, engineering, risk and compliance teams to help drive data-driven decisions that would support building and scaling risk controls and assurance across our products.

• The focus of this team is to ensure continuous regulatory compliance across all our product streams.
• We're the team that builds guardrails that ensure that our customers can transact on the platform with a peace of mind, knowing that their accounts and funds are kept safe, and products adhere to global regulatory standards.

How you'll contribute:

• Scale and improve our risk data infrastructure to enable our regional teams to dissect metrics at granular levels to proactively identify and mitigate against drivers of risk.
• Building out the metrics to monitor our controls and ensure that they are performing as required, as well as supporting control testing processes.
• Establish control efficiency frameworks by analysing whether controls are effectively reducing risk while not adversely impacting growth.
• Partner with product, engineering, product risk and compliance and other cross-functional stakeholders to influence decisions with data around regional controls and risk.
• Partner closely with FinCrime to add a regional lens on global risk engines to ensure local risk typologies are monitored and appropriately managed.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Choose your path to impact – we believe people are most empowered when they can act independently.

• So rather than telling you what to do, you'll work with your team to create a vision of your own.
• Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you'll have the freedom to make your own calls

• Grow as a Product Analyst – Grow and inspire your team and others across Wise
• Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our product while working with a group of multi disciplinary teams of amazing, smart and dedicated product analysts, engineers, product managers, researchers, designers and many more
• The freedom to have real impact – The opportunities you'll identify are key to Wise reaching future millions of customers and redefining how payments work internationally at scale

Qualifications

Ideal candidate would have:

• At least 6+ years of experience
• Strong analytical mind and product intuition, centered around the banking and financial industry.
• Technical skill-set in Python, advanced SQL, BI tools
• Experience working with technical teams (PMs, engineers, analysts)
• Relevant experience in a data driven and complex environment with limited guidance
• Understanding of events data - Mixpanel / Google Analytics / Amplitude or similar
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to translate data into compelling narratives
• Hustler-mentality. You can take work beyond the analysis and get things done.

Good to have:

• Experience in Financial Crime and/or Customer Onboarding domain
• Knowledge of the fintech ecosystem
• Knowledge of utilities like Airflow/Github/DBT
• Experience with user-facing products and data

Additional Information

What do we offer:

• Salary: £75,000 - £115,000
• Company Restricted Stock Units
• Numerous great benefits in our London office

Key benefits:

• Hybrid working
• Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities
• 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave

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 .