We’re looking for a Product Compliance & Risk Manager to join our growing Product Compliance & Risk team in APAC and to help out the Pacific team specifically. This role is hands-on, a unique opportunity to have an impact on Wise’s mission and help save millions more people money.
Your mission:
Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Your mission is to work with our product teams to launch new products and grow our presence in AU/NZ through a deep understanding of the regulatory requirements and Regulators’ expectations around them.
This is a first line Product Compliance & Risk role, embedded in the APAC Product Squad.
You, together with the team in Pacific, will be responsible for:
Creating and improving our amazing products in a compliant way:
Deeply understand regulatory needs, translate this into solutions and work together with the Product Teams to build compliant new products and services in a customer oriented way;
Perform regulatory analysis of new products and services, and ensure that related controls are implemented consistently prior to launch; and
Enable product teams to adopt a risk-based approach in developing products, processes, and controls.
Regulatory risk and remediation:
By understanding both the Wise product deeply enough and the local regulatory expectations - support Product and other teams on how to interpret regulatory requirements, and improve processes and our product to avoid regulatory breaches and/or incidents; and
In collaboration with second line Compliance and Risk teams, identify and align on the main regulatory issues and risks in AU/NZ. Present this in a very clear and understandable way to the wider teams, to work with them on defining the solutions and how this should be executed.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
Grow your hands-on Fintech knowledge at full speed;
Build best-in-class products: The role is a unique opportunity to build state-of-the-art products that are compliant for our customers and regulators; and
Work together with all our amazing teams both locally and globally.
