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.

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Job Description

Wise is growing at scale, and our mission is money without borders, making it instant, convenient, transparent, and eventually free. As we expand globally and operate as a listed company, navigating regulatory complexity and ensuring robust compliance is critical to our continuous growth.

We are looking for a Remediation Lead to lead our high-stakes, cross-functional global remediation and compliance initiatives. Sits at the intersection of Risk & Compliance, Product, and Operations, you will act as the master orchestrator for complex, multi-dimensional compliance programmes. This role requires an individual with an authoritative background in financial crime, risk management, and first-line control assurance. You will have full ownership of board-level updates, global remediation tracking, and direct external communication with regulatory authorities. This role will also include setting up the long term plan and framework for remediation management globally.

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Team Mandate

The Remediation Team will:

• Own programme management for all regulatory remediation workstreams globally
• Establish the framework for escalation, reporting, and decision-making
• Provide technical challenge on approach, timelines, and output quality
• Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders - not just coordination
• Deliver clear, regular reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums

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Your Mission:

• Own Global Remediation Programmes: Lead the end-to-end design, governance, and structural execution of volatile, large-scale issues and global regulatory remediation programmes across multiple teams.
• Regulatory Liaison & External Communication: Serve as a key point of contact for external regulatory examinations and audits. You will manage requests, coordinate evidence collection, and directly front communications with regulators.
• Subject Matter Expert challenge: This role is not just project coordination - you will provide technical challenges on approaches, timelines and output quality; Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders and help mediate between various stakeholders.
• Executive & Board Governance: Build framework structures for executive reporting. Own the creation and delivery of high-stakes updates, risk registers, and operational progression metrics presented directly to the Board of Directors and Regional Committees.
• Cross-Functional Alignment & Facilitation: Navigate Wise’s highly autonomous culture to break down silos, align conflicting product roadmaps, and secure engineering prioritisation for critical "friction deflection" and compliance-led process redesigns.
• Data-Driven Stewardship: Establish the methodology to quantify the "cost of compliance friction" and evaluate process trends using rigorous qualitative and quantitative data storytelling to clearly inform senior management’s strategic trade-offs.