# Head of Financial Crime Control Governance

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a Head of Financial Crime (FC) Control Governance to design, own and operate the 1LOD control governance framework across Wise entities.

Your mission:

- Manage and enhance the 1LOD FC control governance strategy and operating model across Wise entities.

- Own and maintain the Financial Crime control library as the single source of truth and ensure ongoing library hygiene.

- Lead control mapping across the end-to-end framework (risks, processes, product, and regulatory obligations).

- Enforce control documentation quality check.

- Drive continuous improvement of the control assurance framework and workflow design, with an appetite for automation (e.g. AI-enabled documentation where appropriate).

- Run control approval governance forum including senior management sign-off and tracking of actions to completion.

- Prepare high-quality materials, dashboards, and trend analysis for senior management and risk committees.

- Act as a key 1LOD point of contact supporting regulatory exams, process walkthroughs and audit requests relating to FC controls.

- Lead a small team (currently 1 direct report) and provide prioritisation and performance management; with potential to grow the team over time in line with programme needs.

Qualifications:

- Significant experience in controls governance and risk within a regulated financial institution (bank, payments, fintech at scale, consultancy supporting banks).

- Strong knowledge of financial crime risk domains (AML, sanctions, CDD/KYC, transaction monitoring, fraud) and how these translate into operational/product controls.

- Proven ownership of control libraries /RCSA/ control frameworks, including control lifecycle management and mapping to obligations.

- Demonstrated ability to run governance forums, manage senior stakeholders, and produce audit-ready decision records.

- Experience partnering with 2LoD Compliance/Risk and supporting Internal Audit / regulatory reviews.

- Strong capacity to prioritize tasks, maintain a problem-solving mindset, and take ownership to drive and deliver projects from inception to completion with high attention to detail.

- Strong data literacy with the ability to scrutinize metrics.

## Skills

### Required
- financial crime risk management
- controls governance
- risk management
- compliance
- audit

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