Head of Regional Payment Operations LATAM & MEA
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Job Summary
Are you ready to shape the future of payments in Latin America Middle East & Africa and beyond
Were seeking a strategic and experienced Head of Regional Payment Operations to lead our teams across Latin American and Middle East & African corridors. Youll play a key leadership role within our global Payment Operations group directly managing senior function leads and indirectly overseeing over 40 professionals.
This role is perfect for someone with deep knowledge of payment systems and a passion for automation compliance and operational scalability. Youll work alongside Product Engineering Banking Treasury and other critical stakeholders to ensure we deliver seamless payment services to customers across the world.
What Youll Do:
Build lead and grow high-performing payment operations teams
Ensure compliance and SLA excellence across multiple currencies and schemes
Drive efficiency and scalability through AI automation and process transformation
Partner cross-functionally to scale our payments infrastructure
Qualifications :
Must-Have:
5 years total in payments or ops leadership roles in a Global environment
3 years managing leaders of teams
Domain knowledge of payment schemes
Experience scaling ops orgs via automation and AI
Strong compliance and risk management awareness
Background in financial services (FinTech PSPs banks)
Excellent cross-functional stakeholder communication
Nice-to-Have:
Product background or experience launching payment products
AI/ML or automation tools experience in ops
Technical understanding of APIs or system architecture
Led international teams or expansion projects
Additional Information :
*Please note only resumes provided in English will be considered*
Our Benefits:
RSUs in a rapidly growing company
Flexible working model During the first six months youll be in office most days of the week to become fully immersed in Wises culture and ways of working. After the initial period youll be in office at least 3 days per week.
An annual self-development budget
Health and dental allowance for you and your dependents
Company-paid: Life Insurance and an EAP program
Paid time off: 30 days vacation 3 Me days 1 volunteer day annually
A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
18-weeks of paid parental leave after a year with us and child care assistance
Transportation vouchers
Meal (708 BRL per month) and food (1166 BRL per month) vouchers
TotalPass access to 3500 gyms and studios throughout Brazil
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Succession Planning
- Growing Experience
- Expense Management
- Management Experience
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- Laboratory Management
- Senior Leadership
- Operations Management
- Relationship Management
- Leadership Experience
- negotiation
- Taxonomy
About Company
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold 40+ currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cro ... View more
