Wise Platform Financial Crime Manager

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The Wise Platform Financial Crime Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping and ensuring the effectiveness of the European Wise Platform's financial crime compliance program. Key responsibilities involve establishing robust standards for partner onboarding and ongoing monitoring, contributing to the drafting and maintenance of second-line policies and frameworks, and offering strategic advisory to the first line.

Wise Platform is our global payments infrastructure for banks, financial institutions and enterprises around the world. We provide these organisations with the capabilities, technology and network to enable fast, secure and cost-effective international payments for their customers.

Financial Crime Oversight & Support

• Lead on the oversight of Europe Wise Platform governance, particularly the onboarding and ongoing monitoring management of partners. 

• Provide guidance and advisory on partner assessments and where elevated financial crime risks are identified, working with the first line teams for an effective mitigation action plan. 

• Be the point of contact for second line partnership management including partner calls and escalation by internal stakeholders. 

• Support the building and maintenance of Wise Platform’s EU financial crime compliance program, frameworks and procedures, in adherence with Belgium and European requirements and expectations.

Risk Management

• Review MI and KRIs for Wise platform and perform trend analysis to identify emerging risks. 

• Support in the development and review of Wise Platform risk frameworks, including onboarding flows, partner risk assessments models, ongoing monitoring frameworks and risk tolerance frameworks and thresholds aligning to Wise’s Europe overall risk strategy and across all Wise Platform integration types.

Incident and Issue Management

• Support first line teams in managing Wise Europe Platform incidents or emerging risks;

• Support the root cause analysis for Wise Platform incidents collaborating with relevant stakeholders on an effective remediation plan. 

• Lead the reporting of Wise Platform partner issues and incident root causes to the AMLCO and Senior Management, ensuring all proposed mitigation plans are aligned with Wise Europe risk tolerance and Belgian and European regulatory standards.

• Oversee Wise Platform Partner issues (audit and regulatory findings, self-identified issues) and collaborate closely with all impacted teams on the remediation plan.

Experience: 3-5 years in financial crime compliance, with experience in correspondent services and products from an AML/CFT perspective. 

Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Belgium and European financial crime regulations and international recommendations, with a particular focus on correspondent banking services. 

Communication: Excellent communication, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders across different functions and levels of seniority. 

Analytical: Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data, financial crime programmes and produce clear and concise reports. 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in law, finance or other related areas. Additional certifications such as ACAMS or ICA are beneficial.

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