Group FinCrime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager

Were looking for a driven high-energy individual who will be joining our Group FinCrime Compliance Monitoring & Testing (CMT) team as a Manager. 

In this role youll work closely with colleagues from a wide variety of teams including Product Operations and Compliance to lead and execute both global and UK-focused FinCrime monitoring & testing / assurance reviews that protect Wise and our customers from financial crime. You will ensure that more junior team members adequately follow our monitoring and testing methodologies and industry best practices coaching them along the way to deliver best-in-class work.

Your work will help ensure our FinCrime controls remain robust scalable and aligned with both global and local regulatory requirements. By collaborating with cross-functional teams and regional stakeholders you will play an integral part in protecting Wises customers reputation and business operations.

Key responsibilities / Your Mission

• Control testing & issue validation: Lead the control reviews end-to-end from Scoping to Reporting as well as our issue validation work ensuring the team appropriately follows our methodologies & best practices and every deliverable meets top-quality standards. You will also ensure reviews are delivered in a timely manner.

• Monitoring: Lead the execution of monitoring activities over key FinCrime risks looking for compliance gaps and actionable insights and prepare monitoring reports that will be shared with management. 

• Coaching & Development: Provide guidance to junior CMT team members on an on-going basis upskilling them and helping them understand methodologies test scripts and best practices.

• Stakeholder management: Work closely with senior stakeholders from all three Lines of Defense (Operations Product Compliance Internal Audit) to ensure the effective and impactful delivery of our CMT reviews.

Qualifications :

• Experience: Demonstrable experience (>5 years) conducting and leading assurance reviews & issue validation work within Compliance Financial Crime Risk or Audit functions; experience in a payments or fintech environment preferred.

• Knowledge: Good knowledge of Financial Crime regulations testing methodologies and risk assessment frameworks particularly in relation to UK rules and global compliance requirements.

• Team & Quality management: Experience managing a small team on a day-to-day basis prioritising work to meet deadlines and coaching more junior team members to help them develop and ensure they deliver high-quality work.

• Skills: Excellent analytical organisational and communication skills with the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into effective monitoring and testing activities and to engage with senior stakeholders in an effective manner.

• Travel: Based in London youre open to occasional travel to other locations abroad (roughly once a quarter) to keep our global CMT efforts aligned.

• Education: Bachelors degree in law finance or related fields. Relevant certifications (e.g. ACAMS ICA) are preferred.

Additional Information :

Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 from home

Working hours - 9am to 6pm 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time