Group Product Compliance Lead - AML

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We are looking for a Product Risk and Compliance Lead to join our Anti-Money Laundering Product team, working in our first line of defence to take our AML/CTF programme to the next level. This role is a unique opportunity to directly impact Wise’s mission, whilst developing your skills as a Product Compliance leader.


Your mission:
Your mission is to enable our global AML Product teams to launch new, and enhance existing, financial crime controls - across both transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring. 

You will translate regulatory expectations into pragmatic, data-driven product controls; partner closely with Product, Data Science and Engineering to design and govern AML detection and scoring models; and represent the AML product compliance agenda to regulators, auditors and senior stakeholders.


You will be responsible for the AML programme, leading a team to: 

• Collaborate with Product teams across Wise to help design controls to ensure our in-house fincrime product is best in class

• Translate AML regulatory and supervisory expectations into product requirements, control frameworks and measurable KPIs

• Ensure effective governance of detection logic, rules, thresholds and machine learning models

• Identify and drive enhancements that could improve our risk mitigation, customer experience, unlock growth, or improve our operational processes

• Use data to define the effectiveness of controls and support the implementation of an ongoing testing programme

• Work with Product teams to implement and prioritise control improvements to strengthen our programme while finding ways to create efficiencies

• Define and deliver project plans for improvements identified internally, by auditors or by third party stakeholders

• Define and lead the roadmap for control enhancements, model governance, monitoring and tooling improvements; guide projects from concept to implementation 

About you

• Proven AML Compliance leadership - a minimum of 10 years experience working within financial crime, with particular focus on implementing control enhancements

• Transaction Monitoring and Risk Scoring - direct experience with transaction monitoring systems, including rule design, alerting workflows. Comfortable with both rules-based and machine learning approaches

• Product collaboration - experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to develop financial crime controls

• Data-driven - strong quantitative skills, including comfort interpreting AML programme performance from metrics, and identifying potential areas for improvement proactively 

• Leadership and stakeholder management - experience leading and scaling teams, coaching senior ICs, and influencing senior stakeholders to drive decisions across teams 

• Governance and assurance - experience building control frameworks, leading periodic reviews/testing, responding to audit findings and translating remediation into deliverable plans

• Communication - strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to concisely explain complex or technical concepts to a range of internal and external audiences 

• Global reach - experience working across multiple financial crime regulatory regimes across the globe, with an understanding of truly global opportunities but an appreciation for local nuance 

• Willingness to travel to Wise offices located across different countries

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