# Country Manager

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: Johannesburg, South Africa
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Country Manager to lead the expansion of Wise's product offering in South Africa. As a key member of our team, you will oversee local operations, define our market expansion strategy, and be the face of Wise in South Africa.

Responsibilities:

- Expand Wise's regulatory presence in South Africa

- Build and improve relationships with banks, payment partners, and other financial institutions

- Help Product teams build better, faster, and more cost-effective products for customers

- Drive Wise's market expansion strategy from a payments infrastructure, regulatory, and operational partnerships point of view

Key tasks:

- Work with Product teams to define opportunities for Wise's products in South Africa and other markets in Southern Africa

- Own and expand Wise's regulatory presence in South Africa

- Manage the regulatory and licensing process end-to-end

- Build strong relationships with regulators and public-sector stakeholders

- Understand existing and new regulations and figure out the best ways for our product to comply with them

- Translate regulatory requirements into product implementations with our Compliance teams

Requirements:

- Strong communication skills and ability to negotiate ideal terms

- Experience with financial regulatory relationships and licensing frameworks in South Africa

- Familiarity with the South African financial ecosystem and payments infrastructure

- Fluency in English

- Ability to work independently and flexibly in a fast-moving environment

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## Skills

### Required
- financial regulation
- licensing frameworks
- payments infrastructure
- regulatory relationships
- English

### Nice to have
- AML
- KYC
- sanctions
- exchange control
- risk controls
- South African financial ecosystem

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