Wise
Group Financial Crime Governance & Risk Senior Manager
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Senior Manager - Group Financial Crime Governance and Risk
About Wise
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.
The Role: Group Financial Crime Governance and Risk Senior Manager
This role is vital in maintaining, uplifting, and enforcing Wise’s global financial crime risk program, acting as a bridge between enterprise strategies and granular operational execution. As a critical pillar of our Second Line of Defence (2LoD), you will provide overviews and challenge risk assessments to ensure they drive better due diligence and platform safety.
You will manage proactive risk management through the development of advanced tactics and KRIs, while overseeing sophisticated monitoring dashboards and reporting systems. You will ensure that Wise’s financial crime controls function effectively across both global and regional teams.
Responsibilities
Framework Development & Methodology
- Global Risk Framework: Develop, maintain, and evolve the Group Financial Crime Risk Framework, ensuring full integration with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF).
- Methodology Ownership: Lead collaboration to design and implement core risk assessment methodologies including:
- Financial Crime Risk Assessment (FCRA)
- Country Risk Assessment
- Customer Risk Assessment
- Industry Risk Assessment
- Financial Crime Risk Assessment (FCRA) alignment and monitoring
- 2LoD Oversight: Drive 2LoD oversight on the global inherent risks assessed in the entity-wide FCRA with a focus on likelihood and impact assessments, mapped at Group-level cascading to regions and control consistency across entities.
- Platform Integration: Partner with the Group Wise Platform (WP) FinCrime Compliance team to ensure:
- All WP models capture specific inherent risks in FCRA
- Control mapping remains accurate across all integration models
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Risk Management
- Risk Appetite Collaboration: Work with First Line of Defence (1LoD) to ensure continuous review and adjustment of financial crime risk appetite.
- Monitor & Remediate: Track adherence to financial crime risk appetite and provide expert 2LoD support in defining remediation plans.
- Data Analysis: Identify opportunities to use risk assessments to improve Customer Risk Assessment (CRA) and due diligence processes.
- Control Monitoring: Deliver robust 2LoD oversight on continuous control monitoring, working with 1LoD to enhance controls where gaps exist.
- Reporting: Collaborate with the FP FinCrime Compliance team on implementing a dedicated Risk Management Framework, mapping Management Information (MI) for monitoring risks at partner and model levels.
Issue & Incident Management
- Process Definition: Align with 1LoD and the Regulatory Risk team to develop effective issue and incident management processes.
- Incident Oversight: Provide 2LoD oversight on financial crime incident management, including classification, impact assessment, and remediation within broader issue tracking frameworks.
- Issue Tracking: Oversee financial crime-related issues, tracking resolution progress and providing updates for management as needed.
Governance, Intelligence, & Reporting
- Quarterly Committee Management: Handle regular business as usual (BAU) requirements for quarterly committees, offering a “check and challenge” to 1LoD inputs.
- Trend Analysis & Representation: Conduct financial crime issue and incident trend analysis, highlighting emerging themes and deep-dive thematic reviews for risks and risk frameworks.
Stakeholder Engagement & Culture
- Regional Support: Act as the central point of contact for regional teams, supporting local implementation of risk frameworks and assessments.
- Leadership & Influence: Nurture collaboration across the business, embedding financial crime risk awareness, accountability internally at Wise.
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Requirements & Qualifications
- Experience & Knowledge:
- 7+ years in financial crime compliance and/or risk, particularly within enterprise-wide financial crime and risk management.
- Deep understanding of global financial crime regulations, risk taxonomies, and framework design. Familiarity with SQL and Large Language Models (LLM) is beneficial.
- Leadership & Adaptability:
- Track record of leading strategic financial crime initiatives to ensure regulatory compliance while facilitating business growth in multi-jurisdiction environments.
- Adept at cross-functional collaboration and influencing diverse stakeholders at all levels.
- Endorsement of a proactive culture in identifying solutions with limited guidance.
- Skills & Competencies:
- Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills with solution focus.
- Experience guiding first line teams toward stronger risk compliance frameworks.
- Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in law, finance, or related fields.
- Certifications like Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering (CAMS) or Institute of Credit Administration (ICA) would be beneficial.
Additional Information
Work Conditions
- Hybrid working: Three days in the office, two days remote.
- Working Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Wise Culture & Values
We’re a people-first business with a bold purpose: building a world where money can flow freely, without discrimination, between anyone, anywhere.
We underline our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion as cornerstones of our team’s effectiveness. Wise is proud of its international team and celebrates the world’s diversity to make a meaningful impact in reducing barriers for everyone.
To learn more about working at Wise, visit Wise.Jobs.
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