EMEA Regional Risk Lead

Wise Platform helps financial institutions and large enterprises leverage Wises infrastructure to offer their customers world class payments products through their own platforms. Wise Platform is a startup within a scale up.  Were a cross functional team across sales account management product engineering compliance analytics and many other functions. Were based across the world from London to Singapore Austin and beyond. 

Your primary mission will be to lead a regional team of analysts responsible for onboarding banks and enterprise partners assessing their compliance policies and producing comprehensive compliance memos to determine partner risk. Additionally you will lead monitoring analysts that review partners regularly to ensure Wise maintains effective oversight of their operations. You will own and manage the risk for our platform partners in your region.

Your Mission:

• Partner Risk Management:

  • Continuously improve our onboarding and monitoring procedures to enable your team to be effective in managing partner risk

  • Own decision making regarding partners based on their compliance reviews that summarise findings and determine partner risk; your assessment should be datadrive and align partners with Wises risk tolerance and regulatory requirements

  • You manage our monitoring process ensuring that the team effectively tracks partners compliance operations and surfaces any concerns or red flags to be actioned

  • You will apply decisions on the acceptable risk for partners in the region based on Wises risk tolerance; you will ensure that risk is identified managed and communicated effectively internally and to partners externally

• Crossfunctional Collaboration:

  • Work across departments to ensure that banks and enterprise partners in your region are onboarded to the platform in a timely manner and have a bestinclass experience doing so

  • Educate cross functional teams (particularly commercial) about partner risk supporting them in making decisions when our thresholds are met

  • You take calculated risks and are able to provide defensible arguments to support your decision. Support your team do the same when onboarding or monitoring partners in the longterm 

• Leadership and People Development:

  • Take a leading role in managing the risk analysts for Wise Platform working with the team members to grow their impact

  • Measure team performance and KPIs plan capacity to ensure performance targets and quality standards are met while maintaining focus on the partner experience

  • Maintain high standards throughout the entire employee lifecycle including recruiting performance reviews 360degree feedback and offboarding. Effectively manage low performance while fostering high talent density and highperforming individuals and teams.

Qualifications :

• Experienced in compliance risk management within Financial Services; a plus if you have previous experience in Correspondent Banking.

• Skilled in investigation and business notation specializing in evaluating risk assessments and compliance documentation able to make decisions based on these

• Proven track record of managing highperforming compliance or risk teams in fastpaced environments

• Demonstrated capability in strong stakeholder management and resilience with the ability to effectively navigate complex organizational dynamics

• Excellent internal and partner communication skills with a knack for presentation and persuasion to align teams and drive decisions

• Proficiency with data able to meet KPIs and SLAs and keep their team accountable for meeting these goals consistently

• Strong problemsolving skills utilizing regulations and data for strategic decisionmaking

• You can build an environment where your team is incentivised to make decisions and apply riskbased approach to their work

• Passionate about customer and partner success with a proactive approach to managing compliance and risk

Additional Information :

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime