We are seeking a highly experienced individual to support a rapidly expanding product in North America. The primary goal is to ensure Wises US and Canada AML program is best-in-class meeting regulatory obligations effectively managing financial crime risk and scaling to enable continued growth. This is a hands-on and exciting opportunity to collaborate directly with product managers analysts and engineers. The ideal candidate will be an expert in anti-financial crime risk and possess proven experience in evaluating and implementing controls.
Your mission:
Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Now we need to scale our US and Canada product offerings ensuring compliance and a structured approach to local financial crime risks. You will enhance the effectiveness of our AML program ensuring a balance with customer experience. This will instill confidence in internal stakeholders bank partners and regulators.
Heres how youll be contributing to the NorthAm Product Compliance and Risk team in the first line:
Fully implement a bank partner engagement program- developing metrics to communicate our AML program health
Support on the closure of financial crime issues by building new controls or enhancing existing controls working with our regional and core financial crime product teams to do so
Enable growth- identify ways to improve our controls and reduce unnecessary customer suspensions as well as review products to ensure they meet our local regulatory requirements and have appropriate anti-financial crime controls
Develop reporting to improve the regional and global understanding of the health of our NorthAM financial crime program- reflecting on metrics issues incidents to name a few
Offer effective advice to Product Managers on existing and forthcoming regulations gaps and risks and work with them to proactively address these
Ensure NorthAm has a full understanding of our regional control framework local risks and NorthAm control framework. This will be achieved through better control documentation procedure uplift and the maintenance of the regional product compliance manual
Give confidence to bank partners auditors and regulators about our product offering and the associated NorthAM AML compliance program
This role will give you the opportunity to:
Grow your hands-on Fintech knowledge at full speed;
Keep compliance right at the heart of the product development cycle in a fast-moving environment;
Be empowered to identify regulatory problems and take a lead in the solution design and implementation;
Additional Information :
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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