# Banking & Expansion Manager / Country Manager

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: Bogota
**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 part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

You will have full responsibility for overseeing our local operations, defining our market expansion strategy and executing on it, and being the face of Wise in Colombia.

**Responsibilities**

- Working with the Product teams, you will help define the opportunities for our products in Colombia and will help build better products and experiences for our customers.

- You will collaborate across teams and inspire others so that we deliver the best solution.

- Your contribution will mainly be from the payments infrastructure, regulatory and operational banking partnerships point of view.

- Your mission: To own and expand Wise’s regulatory presence in the country.

- Identify the most appropriate way to grow Wise in Colombia.

- Manage the entire licensing process for Wise’s entry into Colombia.

- Identify opportunities to offer the best product in the market taking advantage of our existing framework and future authorizations.

- Understand existing and new regulations and figure out the best ways our product can comply with them.

- Translate regulatory requirements into product implementations together with our Compliance teams.

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

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

- Be the person of reference in our new Colombia office, from both internal and external perspectives.

- Build new relationships with relevant financial institutions.

- Take ownership of improving existing relationships with transactional banking partners and other financial institutions.

**Qualifications**

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

- Excellent at managing financial regulatory relationships.

- Able to get stuff done.

- Deep understanding of how financial, payments and FX regulators work.

- Understand financial, payments and FX regulation in a changing regulatory environment.

- Familiar with different financial licensing frameworks and requirements in Colombia.

- Fluent in Spanish and English.

- Resident in Colombia and able to serve as the local representative in the country.

- Happy to work independently and flexibly within a fast-moving environment.

- Passionate about transforming the financial industry for good.

## Skills

### Required
- Spanish
- English
- financial regulation
- payments infrastructure
- banking partnerships

### Nice to have
- SEDPE license
- experience with regulators in Colombia
- understanding of financial regulation in Latam region

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