FinCrime Product Compliance and Risk Lead- NorthAm

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The Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on FinCrime Lead to support a rapidly expanding product in North America. This is a senior role within our first line of defense, responsible for ensuring Wise's US and Canada AML program is best-in-class, meeting all regulatory obligations, effectively managing financial crime risk, and scaling to enable continued growth. The ideal candidate will be an expert in anti-financial crime risk and possess proven experience in evaluating and implementing controls.

This is a unique opportunity to directly impact Wise’s mission, whilst developing your skills as a Product Compliance and Risk leader in a fast-paced environment. You will be a key player in ensuring our local product offerings are compliant and have a structured approach to local financial crime risks, all while balancing this with an excellent customer experience.

Your Mission

Your primary mission is to enable our regional Product teams to launch new products, and enhance our existing financial crime program for the North American market. You will achieve this through a deep understanding of financial crime regulations and risks, while maintaining direct communication with regulators, auditors, and industry peers to understand expectations and areas of opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team to collaborate with product managers and engineers to design, implement, and prioritize effective financial crime controls that address both regulatory and risk requirements.

• Ensure compliance with NY DFS 504 Sanctions and Transaction Monitoring annual review

• Fully implement and manage a bank partner engagement program, developing key metrics to communicate the health and effectiveness of our AML program.

• Support the closure of financial crime issues by building new controls or enhancing existing ones.

• Proactively identify ways to improve controls, reduce unnecessary customer friction, and enable continued growth.

• Develop robust reporting to improve regional and global understanding of the health of our North American financial crime program.

• Advise Product Managers on existing and forthcoming regulations, potential gaps, and risks.

• Ensure the North American team has a full understanding of our regional control framework, local risks, and product compliance processes.

• Provide confidence to bank partners, auditors, and regulators regarding our product offerings and associated fincrime compliance program.

About You

• You have minimum 10 years of experience in financial crime, with a particular focus on implementing and enhancing controls.

• You have significant experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to develop financial crime controls.

• You have a strong ability to analyze and interpret complex regulatory frameworks and explain them clearly to stakeholders.

• You are a problem-solver who uses regulations and data to drive business decisions.

• You have proven experience leading and scaling teams, with expertise in growing both team size and impact.

• You have experience working across multiple financial crime regulatory regimes, with specific experience in the US and Canadian markets.

• You have strong data analytics skills and have used them to articulate the health of a financial crime program.

• You are willing to travel to Wise offices located across different countries.

• You are legally authorized to work in the US.

Additional Skills (a bonus if you have them!)

• Experience with Confluence, Jira, Looker, and Risk and Controls software.

• Experience working with global, cross-functional teams.

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