Sanctions Advisory Manager

Wise • New York, NY

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About The Position

Sanctions Advisory Senior Compliance Manager We’re looking for a Sanctions Advisory manager to join our growing FinCrime Oversight team. Sanctions is a key function in our oversight team. This role is hands-on, a unique opportunity to have an impact on Wise’s mission, grow as a sanctions and compliance leader, and help save millions of more people’s money while protecting Wise from compliance risks. Your mission: At Wise we believe that people who are closest to risks are the best placed to identify and address these. We are looking for a Sanctions expert who will work with our product and compliance teams to ensure our sanctions controls are fit for purpose today and as we continue to scale. This is a second line role looking after US sanctions but will work closely with counterparts across the globe.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a sanctions advisory role within the financial services industry with at least 7+ years of experience
• An understanding of SWIFT payments, cross border payments, card payments, prepaid access accounts and trade finance
• Ability to drive projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Previous experience with senior management reporting
• Strong subject matter expertise of OFAC financial sanctions regimes and regulations, knowledge of other markets such as UK, EU, and Canada a plus.
• Organizational awareness including working knowledge or risks, products, processes, and controls
• Experience managing a range of different stakeholders internally and externally
• Excellent communication abilities, both written and oral
• You have proven track record of taking ownership and responsibilities as well as being a great team-player
• You are able to persevere in a fast paced environment

Nice To Haves

• Data expert that can use data to determine control effectiveness, measure customer impact and articulate risk
• Prior experience at a fintech

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an effective sanctions risk framework working closely with the product and compliance officers in the US, UK and EU.
• Implement a process to proactively identify thematic issues/ areas for improvement and ensure their remediation is prioritized in line with the risk they pose.
• Build a means to report issues, risks and opportunities for enhancement to senior management to give them confidence in our sanctions program
• Collaborate with our in-house Sanctions Product Compliance, Product and Engineering teams to strengthen controls
• Identify opportunities to improve the customer experience by improving our controls, operational processes, or removing controls in line with regulation and risk requirements.
• Create processes to demonstrate our product, compliance and operational effectiveness and structure
• Represent Wise on discussions with Regulators, Bank Partners, and Auditors.
• Work with teams across Wise to ensure our sanctions program and controls are fit for purpose such as RFIs, Wise Platform, KYC and Payment operations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed