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. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.
Join Wise as a Compliance Manager, playing a pivotal role in shaping and executing our core compliance frameworks within a global, rapidly expanding Fintech. You'll be instrumental in ensuring Wisers globally adhere to regulatory requirements, ethical boundaries, and internal policy frameworks, directly contributing to our sustainable growth and mission of making money borderless.
Reporting into the Group Regulatory Compliance Team, you will manage a global remit focusing on anti-bribery and corruption, donations, gifts and entertainment, third party due diligence, conflicts of interest, and other general compliance matters.
We are looking for an entrepreneurial compliance professional who thrives building things from scratch, is adept at future-proofing programmes as we scale, and who is constantly identifying opportunities to enhance and streamline processes.
Your Mission -
- Policy & Core Ethics Framework Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain the global compliance frameworks for Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), Gifts, Entertainment & Hospitality (GEH), and Conflicts of Interest, ensuring alignment with local regulations across all our operating jurisdictions, and the design of effective and robust controls.
- Conflicts & Registry Management: Own the operational design and enforcement of our global registers, ensuring associated policies and standards are effectively socialised and embedded across the business.
- EWRA & Governance Reporting: Lead Wise’s Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment where required. Prepare high-quality governance reports and Management Information (MI) for the Board and Senior Management, highlighting emerging trends and control effectiveness.
- Third-Party Risk & Due Diligence: Own the framework for vendor and partner compliance. Run robust compliance due diligence checks, review red flag reports regarding third parties and suppliers, and ensure risk-mitigation steps are executed seamlessly alongside Third Party Risk Management.
- Individual Accountability & Regulatory Conduct: Manage and scale Wise's alignment with global individual accountability regimes.
- Policy Breach Investigations: Oversee the compliance investigation pathway for internal policy breaches, ensuring root-cause analysis is performed to prevent future operational gaps.
- Consumer Protection Frameworks: Provide group-wide compliance horizon scanning, testing, and monitoring against evolving global consumer protection legislation and payment transparency standards.
- Future-proofing, and automation: Actively look for opportunities to enhance, automate, and streamline our activities.
- Cross-Functional Partnership & Culture: Partner dynamically with the People Team, Compliance Learning, Third Party Risk Management, and other key internal stakeholders to drive and embed compliance initiatives globally.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
- Build from scratch: You are energised by picking up projects that are work in progress - even blank.
- Champion a data-driven approach to ethics and conduct risk management.
- Drive international impact by collaborating with compliance officer networks across North America, APAC, and Europe to harmonise core ethics standards.
- Inspire and influence stakeholders with clear communication, pragmatic advice, and a passion for creating a highly accountable corporate environment.
- Own project lifecycles end-to-end, building automated tech solutions to track registers, simplify disclosures, and track clear compliance metrics.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Our ideal candidate will have exceptional organisational, analytical, and relationship-building skills, with a background in compliance and ethics. More specifically, we’re looking for someone who can demonstrate these attributes:
- Experience: Proven experience (5+ years) in Financial Crime Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, or Governance within a financial institution, bank, mature fintech, or another highly regulated and/or publicly traded U.S. or international business
- Technical & Regulatory Knowledge: Deep understanding of the UK Bribery Act, US FCPA, and global compliance standards regarding conflicts of interest.
- Operational Mindset: You don’t just read regulations; you know how to build the processes, automated workflows, and clear approval hierarchies that make sense for Wise.
- Communication & Constructive Challenge: You possess exceptional drafting skills with an ability to explain complex regulatory concepts to non-compliance audiences without losing the nuance.
- Rigor & Analytics: A problem-solver who thinks deeply about data.
- Passion & Collaboration: You get a kick out of improving current practices and seeing projects through.