Description
We are looking for a Country Manager to expand Wise's product offering in South Africa. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
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 aspects of this role will include:
- Managing the regulatory and licensing process end-to-end
- Building strong relationships with relevant regulators and public-sector stakeholders
- Understanding existing and new regulations and figuring out the best ways for our product to comply with them
- Translating regulatory requirements into product implementations together with our Compliance teams
- Identifying opportunities to offer the best product in the market by taking advantage of our existing and future authorisations
Requirements:
- Able to independently negotiate ideal terms with a clear product vision and strong commercial understanding
- Excellent at managing financial regulatory relationships and constantly creating opportunities to improve them
- Deeply familiar with how financial, payments, and FX regulators work
- Comfortable working with financial, payments, and FX regulation in a changing regulatory environment
- Fluent in English
Nice to have:
- Strong relationships and experience with regulators and payment ecosystem stakeholders in South Africa
- Experience obtaining licences, authorisations, or regulatory approvals in South Africa or comparable markets
- Understanding of South Africa's payments infrastructure and the nuances of the FX, remittance, and cross-border payments market