# Group Risk Lead - Assets Risk

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

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## 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.

We're looking for a Risk Lead to join the Global Risk team at Wise and focus on enabling our Wise Assets product to meet its strategic objectives.

**Your Mission** You will partner with the Head of Risk Product Governance and the wider Risk organisation to strengthen and continuously evolve the risk management programme supporting Wise Assets.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Implement and embed Wise's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), associated policies, standards and methodologies across the Wise Assets product ecosystem.

- Partner with first line teams and co-ordinate with regional risk colleagues to ensure risk management practices are consistently applied.

- Provide independent second line oversight and challenge on risk assessments, control design, control effectiveness and residual risk decisions.

- Support product growth and innovation by reviewing new products, features, market expansions and strategic initiatives.

- Apply ERMF methodologies, including RCSAs, to drive risk and control mapping and assessment activities.

- Oversee control assurance activities and monitor the effectiveness of key controls.

- Own and coordinate issue management activities for Wise Assets.

- Monitor key risk indicators, operational incidents, control failures and emerging trends.

- Support the development and delivery of risk training and awareness initiatives.

- Produce high-quality risk reporting and insights for governance committees and senior stakeholders.

**Qualifications**

- Significant experience within financial services, fintech, banking, wealth management, or investment environments.

- Experience working within or supporting investment products, asset management, brokerage, or regulated investment firms is strongly preferred.

- Demonstrated experience implementing or operating enterprise risk management frameworks within regulated financial services organisations.

- Strong understanding of non-financial risk management concepts and methodologies.

- Proven ability to provide effective independent challenge and escalation.

- Experience assessing complex products, operational processes, and control environments in fast-paced or scaling organisations.

- Strong analytical, data management and reporting skills.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- A pragmatic, commercially aware and solutions-oriented mindset.

- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.

- An inquisitive mindset and strong interpersonal skills.

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- financial services
- ERM frameworks
- RCSAs
- data analysis
- communication

### Nice to have
- investment products
- asset management
- brokerage
- regulated investment firms

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