# Sr. Banking Partnerships Manager

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

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced Banking Partnerships Manager to join the North America Banking & Expansion team in Austin, TX.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

Your mission:

- Advance our payment infrastructure in North America

- Understand and help other teams understand in detail the existing and planned payments infrastructure in the U.S. and Canada

- Have in-depth knowledge about North America payment systems and support direct payments systems integration efforts

- Execute projects related to infrastructure growth, risk management, governance and regulatory/license expansion

- Align closely with Government Relations and Legal teams to review and apply deep understanding of current and proposed payments and financial services regulations

- Lead key bank and payment partner relationships for the North America region

- Own key bank and payment partner relationships, collaborating between the partner and internal, cross-functional teams

- Advocate for Wise’s products and compliance goals with banks and payment partners

- Drive and complete periodic and ongoing due diligences

- Lead commercial negotiations and business reviews

- Review and improve key metrics via business reviews

- Working with the Product Leads, help define the opportunities and direction for our products in North America

- Work closely with product teams to develop our vision and build better products and experiences for our customers

- Work with North America and global teams to ensure our North American customers and products are at the center of our mission

- Partner with North American and Global product teams to identify Bank and other partnerships

- Independently execute high priority projects and workstreams to deepen North America presence

- Leverage financial services and payments infrastructure knowledge to lead priority projects

- Provide strategic support to Wise’s efforts around operationalizing Bank / Trust licenses

- Independently initiate and execute high priority projects that will deepen Wise’s presence in North America.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields such as Finance, Law, Accounting, Economics, Business Management

- 7+ years work experience with payments companies, transaction/corporate/investment banking, financial technology, financial consulting or a financial regulator

- Detailed understanding of payment systems and FX regulation and experience with BSA/AML/KYC and risk management controls

- Ability to structure and independently lead external relationships and cross-functional projects

- Familiarity with how corporate banks, partner banks and financial institutions work and their decision makers

- Able to independently negotiate the most ideal terms with a clear product vision and understanding in mind

- Passion for the financial technology, payments and financial services industries.

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## Skills

### Required
- payment systems
- FX regulation
- BSA/AML/KYC
- risk management controls
- financial technology
- financial consulting

### Nice to have
- credit card products
- fintech banks
- technology providers

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