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Owns global KYC compliance controls across Wise’s product organization, partnering with product and engineering teams to design, deploy, test, and improve financial crime controls. The role drives remediation, automation, customer experience improvements, regulatory reviews, control assessments, data analysis, and project implementation while balancing compliance requirements with scalable product delivery.

Lead Wise’s centralized global Regulatory Affairs function across more than 80 regulatory licenses. Own oversight of supervisory relationships, regulatory inquiries, inspections, commitments, correspondence, and remediation tracking. Develop regulatory engagement strategies, governance frameworks, executive reporting, trend analysis, and cross-jurisdiction lessons learned. Coordinate Compliance, Risk, Legal, Government Relations, Product, and executive stakeholders while supporting incident response and consistent global communications with regulators.

Own technical accounting for new treasury products and services under US GAAP and IFRS. Prepare accounting position papers, support product implementation, update accounting policies and financial processes, explain accounting conclusions to stakeholders and auditors, and manage accounting implementation projects. The role requires independent judgment, cross-functional collaboration, strong communication, and a professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent.

Own Wise Platform’s EMEA pricing strategy, including pricing frameworks, repricing, governance controls, commercial modeling, and negotiations for key accounts. Partner with Finance, Sales, Product, Operations, and regional leadership to ensure sustainable pricing and accurate unit economics. Build commercial tools and dashboards, provide pricing insights, and support complex B2B commercial decisions across a fast-growing fintech environment.

Provides second-line oversight of Wise’s global AML and CTF framework, including transaction monitoring, investigations, enhanced due diligence, governance, risk assessments, control effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and financial crime reporting. Advises Product, Compliance, and Operations teams, reviews systems and controls, leads remediation and effectiveness reviews, supports training, and contributes to global AML/CTF strategy and governance.

Own quarterly and annual external financial reporting, including US GAAP and IFRS statements, consolidations, disclosures, EPS, and complex accounting notes. Manage reporting controls, audit coordination, review cycles, stakeholder inputs, filing timelines, and remediation efforts. The role requires listed-company reporting experience, multi-entity and multicurrency consolidation expertise, SEC filings, XBRL, ERP, and disclosure-management tools, along with strong project leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Oversee Wise’s global Politically Exposed Persons and Adverse Media screening framework within second-line financial crime compliance. Advise Product, Compliance, Engineering, and Operations teams; review systems, controls, risk assessments, policies, incidents, and remediation plans; monitor QA, testing, and audit outcomes; and support training and governance. The role requires strong expertise in global financial crime regulations, CDD/EDD, KYC, KYB, risk management, and control effectiveness.

Lead second-line risk management for Wise Assets, embedding enterprise risk frameworks across products, operations, and governance. Provide independent challenge, oversee risk assessments and controls, manage remediation issues, monitor risk indicators and incidents, and deliver reporting to senior stakeholders and governance committees. Partner cross-functionally across Product, Compliance, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Audit, and regional risk teams to support responsible growth across jurisdictions.

Conducts financial crime internal audits across planning, testing, reporting, and issue validation. Develops audit test plans, evaluates control design and effectiveness, monitors recommendation implementation, and applies data-driven and automated audit techniques. The role requires strong FinCrime process knowledge, audit or assurance experience, stakeholder management, and the ability to work independently in a regulated, multinational environment.

Leads global governance for Wise’s bank accounts, banking partner access, mandates, signatories, and master data. Owns access controls, Segregation of Duties, approval frameworks, recertification, SOX risk strategy, and operational risk reduction. Partners with Treasury, Product, Engineering, Corporate Security, risk teams, auditors, regulators, and banking institutions while building and leading an international governance team.