We’re looking for a driven, high-energy individual who will be joining our EU FinCrime Compliance Monitoring & Testing (CMT) team as a Senior Manager. In this role, you’ll work closely with our EU CMT Lead to help create, manage and execute EU-focused FinCrime monitoring and testing / assurance programs that protect Wise and our customers from financial crime.
You’ll partner with a wide range of stakeholders – from the first line of defense in Operations and Product to second-line Compliance specialists, and Internal Audit – to enhance internal controls and promote an overall culture of compliance.
You will ensure that more junior team members adequately follow our monitoring and testing methodologies and industry best practices, coaching them along the way to deliver best-in-class work.
Your work will help ensure our FinCrime controls remain robust, scalable, and aligned with both global and local regulatory requirements. By collaborating with cross-functional teams and regional stakeholders, you will play an integral part in protecting Wise’s customers, reputation,
and business operations.
Key responsibilities
Planning: Collaborate with the EU CMT Lead to define the annual review plans and ensure their timely execution.
Governance: Support the Lead with the regular management and board-level reporting on key findings, trends, and risk levels, ensuring stakeholders have visibility into compliance performance.
Control testing & issue validation: Lead the control reviews end-to-end from Scoping to Reporting as well as our issue validation work, ensuring the team appropriately follows our methodologies & best practices and every deliverable meets top-quality standards.
Monitoring: Oversee the execution of monitoring activities over key FinCrime risks, looking for compliance gaps and actionable insights, and review the monitoring reports that will be shared with management.
Coaching & Development: Provide guidance and training to junior CMT team members on an on-go