# Deputy BSA/AML Officer

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: New York
**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.

As the Deputy BSA/AML Officer, you will provide operational leadership to the financial crimes team, guide day-to-day operations, allocate resources effectively, and foster a culture of high performance and continuous learning.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and empowering the financial crimes team

- Acting as a strategic partner to the BSA/AML Officer, connecting compliance domains, streamlining operations, and driving programmatic enhancements

- Coordinating audit and exam readiness, managing stakeholder responses, and executing remediation plans

- Maintaining oversight of financial crime controls, ensuring they are monitored, tested, and optimized

- Supervising measures to account for financial crime risks in day-to-day operations

- Providing advice and guidance on BSA, AML/CTF, and OFAC sanctions regulations

- Challenging first-line teams on control development and approving control changes

- Representing financial crime compliance oversight internally and externally

- Deputising for the BSA/AML Officer as required

- Serving as a member of the US SAR committee and contributing to the Financial Crime Risk Assessment

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, including direct experience with federal regulators

- Leadership experience in financial crimes at a fintech company

- Expertise in US financial crime regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act and OFAC

- Demonstrable experience designing and challenging processes

- Solution-oriented mindset with a focus on improving current practices and processes

- Effective communication skills in writing and speaking

- Ability to work well under pressure, prioritize tasks, and handle multiple projects

- Meticulous attention to detail and great people skills

Nice to haves:

- Certification as a Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

- Experience with conducting risk assessments, QA/QC on SARs, and filing SARs or OFAC reports electronically

## Skills

### Required
- BSA/AML
- financial crime compliance
- US financial crime regulations
- leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS)
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
- risk assessments
- SARs
- OFAC reports

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