# Senior Compliance Specialist - AML/Fraud Controls

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: Austin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $82,000 - $110,000 USD annually
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Wise is looking for a Senior Compliance Specialist to join its North America Financial Crime Compliance Oversight team in Austin, TX.

As a Senior Compliance Specialist, you will be an individual contributor and subject matter expert for AML and Fraud controls across the US and Canada.

Your responsibilities include:

- Providing second-line oversight of AML and Fraud controls across the US and Canada

- Reviewing and challenging first-line control design, performance, and changes

- Advising regional and global teams on applicable US and Canadian AML/CTF requirements and Wise policies

- Using MI, KRIs, and control evidence to identify trends, exceptions, and gaps

- Contributing to financial crime risk assessments and horizon scanning

- Supporting suspicious activity/transaction reporting governance

- Preparing concise, decision-ready documentation and supporting responses to auditors, regulators, and partners

Requirements:

- Strong working knowledge of US and Canadian AML/CTF requirements

- Hands-on experience with AML and Fraud controls in a financial institution, fintech, money services business, or consulting environment

- Experience reviewing, challenging, or improving controls and investigations

- Ability to connect regulatory requirements, risk, and customer impact

- Sound risk-based recommendations and judgement

- Medium-complexity work management and stakeholder alignment

- Clear communication and constructive challenge skills

Nice to haves:

- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) or similar professional certification

- Experience contributing to financial crime or enterprise risk assessments

- Experience with suspicious activity/transaction reporting, transaction monitoring, and/or fraud investigations

- Experience using MI/KRIs, control effectiveness testing, model validation, or tuning to identify risk and drive action

- Experience training, onboarding, or mentoring colleagues

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## Skills

### Required
- AML/CTF requirements
- Fraud controls
- Financial crime risk assessments
- Suspicious activity/transaction reporting

### Nice to have
- CAMS
- Financial crime or enterprise risk assessments
- Transaction monitoring
- Model validation

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