Senior Product Compliance and Risk Manager - FinCrime

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Wise is a global technology company revolutionizing the way people move and manage money across borders with minimal fees and maximum ease. As a Senior Product Compliance and Risk Manager - FinCrime, you'll join our European Product Risk and Compliance team within the 1st Line of Defense, embedded in the Product team. This hands-on role responds to our rapid product growth and increasing regulatory pressures in Europe, enabling the launch of innovative products while ensuring full compliance with financial crime regulations. Your mission is to partner with the Wise Europe product team and Financial Crime Product team to design scalable controls, advise on regulatory interpretations, mitigate risks in new partnerships, and represent Wise with regulators and banking partners. You'll translate complex EU financial crime requirements into practical business solutions, driving product innovation without compromising safety or customer trust. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow your fintech and compliance expertise at full speed, build world-class compliant products, and collaborate with global teams at a mission-driven company committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the launch of new products and services by implementing financial crime requirements in a customer-oriented way while fully adhering to regulatory requirements
• Ensure that controls scale with the product by developing ongoing review and monitoring processes
• Develop smart and scalable ways to support new partnerships while managing associated financial crime risks
• Advise Product and operational teams on how to interpret financial crime regulatory requirements or improve processes to avoid regulatory breaches and/or incidents
• Represent Wise in external meetings with Banking Partners and Regulators, articulating Wise Controls clearly and effectively

Required Qualifications

• Min 5 years of relevant experience working in financial crime controls in a financial institution, fintech or consulting firm
• Fluent in English
• Familiar with EU financial crime regulation and regulatory expectations
• Legally authorised to work in Belgium

Preferred Qualifications

• French and/or Dutch language skills
• Willingness to travel

Required Skills

• Ability to define, present and defend approaches when challenged
• Ability to prioritise effectively and call-out key areas of improvement from a regulatory point of view
• Ability to effectively communicate with Product Managers and Engineers and provide practical, actionable recommendations
• Problem solving attitude, with the ability to use regulation together with data to drive business decisions
• A natural owner, that drives and delivers projects from inception to completion, timely and with attention to details
• Ability to interpret data and create actionable insights / proposals
• Proven ability to translate regulatory requirements into actionable Business Requirements

Benefits

• RSUs (stock options)
• Flexible working
• Parental leave
• Learning budget
• Paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Health insurance
• Company retreat
• Wise card

Wise is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce.