About the company
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Regional Product teams, Regional Compliance officers and Business Operations, providing data-driven insights into regional risk profiles, investigative performance, and emerging threats.
- Lead a multi-layered AML organization function of approximately 200 people. Drive high-performance through leadership of 5 Senior Team Leads (direct reports) and 20 Team Leads, ensuring workflows are optimized for both high-volume efficiency and deep-dive quality.
- Proactively identify emerging financial crime trends and implement investigative strategies to protect the platform.
- Drive the delivery of KPIs that align with regional business objectives, ensuring that AML operations support seamless service delivery and customer experience.
- Build and maintain scalable high performance teams, uplifting skills level, demonstrating proactiveness, ensuring the timely, high-quality filing of SARs/STRs.
- Foster a high-performing, mission-driven culture of curiosity and integrity, building the technical expertise required to handle complex cases.
- Accountable for the regional roadmap of risk tooling, partnering with Product, Engineering and Global Compliance teams to architect automated investigative solutions.
- Align investigative capacity with the regional growth roadmap, identifying resource gaps and implementing technological solutions.
- Act as the primary regional lead for all internal audits and regulatory exams, ensuring our governance framework is always transparent and review-ready.
- Provide dedicated support to the Global Head of AML Operations and to the Head of AML Investigations Service Delivery by ensuring regional initiatives remain synchronized with the global AML strategy.