Senior Product Compliance Manager - FinCrime

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money with min fees, max ease, and full speed. This new Senior Product Compliance Manager - FinCrime role sits within our UK Product Compliance and Risk team (1st line of defence), driven by our rapid product growth and evolving financial crime challenges in the UK. You'll enable our UK Product team to launch innovative products while embedding robust, customer-centric financial crime controls that scale with our business and align with regulatory expectations like Money Laundering Regulations, Proceeds of Crime Act, and JMLSG. Your mission is hands-on impact: design and enhance controls for new products and features, conduct data-driven risk assessments, advise on regulatory interpretation, and represent Wise with regulators, banking partners, and industry peers. Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and FinCrime teams to balance compliance, customer experience, and growth. With 7+ years in financial crime controls, you'll drive projects end-to-end, translate regs into business requirements, monitor KRIs, and unlock opportunities through smarter processes. Join a diverse, inclusive team passionate about money without borders. Enjoy flexible global working, competitive salary (83,000 - 118,000 GBP), RSUs, health perks, sabbaticals, and more. Be part of pioneering the future of global finance at Wise.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the launch of new products and services by implementing financial crime requirements in a customer-oriented way whilst adhering to regulatory requirements
• Drive financial crime control enhancements across the Wise business product, ensuring a first class experience for customers that is both compliant and convenient
• Ensure that controls scale with the product by developing ongoing review and monitoring processes
• Support in keeping Wise and its customers compliant, introducing measures to mitigate the risk of financial crime
• Identify and drive enhancements that could improve our customer experience, unlock growth and improve our operational processes
• Use data to define the effectiveness of controls across the UK and work with the regional team to identify key risks
• Advise Product and Operational teams on how to interpret financial crime regulations in the UK or to improve processes in order to avoid regulatory breaches or incidents
• Conduct risk assessments, using data to evaluate the level of risk we are exposed to and mitigation efforts needed
• Work with internal and external audit partners to explain and defend our FinCrime controls
• Represent Wise in external meetings with banking partners and regulators - being able to explain our products, controls and processes

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years experience working in financial crime controls in a financial institution, FinTech or consulting firm
• Strong experience in UK financial crime regulation and guidance, including Money Laundering Regulations, Proceeds of Crime Act and JMLSG
• Experience in implementing financial crime controls for businesses
• Team management experience
• Willingness to travel occasionally to our offices in Europe and globally

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a product compliance or 1st line of defence role
• Background in FinTech or global payments
• Proven track record in customer-centric control design

Required Skills

• Implementing effective and customer-centric business onboarding controls
• A natural owner that drives and delivers projects from inception to completion, timely and with attention to detail
• Collaboration skills with stakeholders including Product, Engineering and Operations
• Ability to interpret data and create actionable insights/proposals
• Proven ability to translate regulatory requirements into actionable business requirements
• An understanding of how to implement and monitor Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
• Deep understanding of financial crime regulatory requirements and regulator’s expectations
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• External representation and relationship building
• Scalable control design and monitoring

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.