Product Compliance & Risk Senior Manager - APAC Regulatory Controls

Roles & Responsibilities

We’re looking for a Product Compliance & Risk Senior Manager to join our growing Product Compliance & Risk team in APAC, supporting first line control implementation and monitoring activities. This newly created role provides a unique, hands-on opportunity to have an impact on Wise’s mission and help save millions more people money.

Your mission :

Wise has pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their money with international multi-currency accounts.

Your mission is to work with control owners across APAC to implement new and uplift existing controls to effectively manage the risks Wise is exposed to, with a specific focus on regulatory and financial crime risk.

This is a first line Product Compliance & Risk role, embedded in the APAC Product Squad.

You, together with the team in APAC, will be responsible for :

Implementing and uplifting controls to effectively address the risks Wise is exposed to in APAC :

• By understanding both the Wise product deeply enough and local regulatory expectations, support Product and other first-line teams to identify controls they have in place, the risk(s) the controls are mitigating, and how to document the controls within the Wise Group Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) tool;
• Working with Product and other first-line teams to identify and / or remediate any gaps in control design, with a focus on gaps in meeting various regulatory obligations across the APAC region. This includes ensuring that any new controls are implemented consistently prior to launch;
• Working with control owners to uplift existing controls, to ensure documentation accurately reflects control design, and controls effectively address the risk(s) they intend to mitigate; and
• Supporting Product and other first-line teams to interpret regulatory requirements across APAC, and improve their controls accordingly to avoid regulatory breaches and / or incidents.

Defining and mapping scalable control frameworks across APAC :

Designing and implementing first-line control monitoring and testing :

This role will give you the opportunity to :

Qualifications

Must have :

Nice to have but not essential :

Tell employers what skills you have

Licensing

Risk Assessment

Regulatory Compliance

Analytical Skills

Outsourcing

Problem Solving

Risk Management

Securities

Compliance

Attention to Detail

Audits

Banking

Team Player

Regulatory Requirements

Financial Services

Mapping