Compliance Manager

## Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

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## Job Description

### Your mission

As a Compliance Monitoring and Testing Manager (Compliance Oversight), you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring Wise’s adherence to regulatory requirements, particularly concerning our second-line monitoring and testing program, banking partners, audits, and examinations. Your responsibilities will include:

– **Design control testing** — Design control testing plans and evaluate compliance with rules and regulations.
– **Audit & examination management** — Lead the preparation and management of regulatory examinations and audits, ensuring timely and accurate responses.
– **Compliance framework development** — Support the development and maintenance of Wise’s Regulatory Compliance oversight framework, including policies and procedures.
– **Controls testing delivery** — Deliver meaningful controls testing, including scoping reviews, controls assessments, and documenting findings.
– **Regulatory remediation** — Work with teams to ensure regulatory compliance issues are remediated in line with agreed timelines.
– **Control gap communication** — Proactively communicate solutions to address control gaps or enhance processes.
– **Regulatory education** — Educate teams about US and CA regulatory requirements and empower them to build clearly documented, risk‑based processes.
– **Compliance culture oversight** — Oversee and maintain a healthy compliance culture throughout the organisation.
– **Adaptive compliance focus** — Adapt focus on different compliance issues depending on growth plans and compliance needs.
– **Risk assessment** — Execute and enhance quarterly monitoring across key risk areas and assist in preparing committee and board reports.
– **Stakeholder collaboration** — Work closely with operational, finance, product, and engineering teams to integrate compliance into business processes.

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## About you

– **Monitoring & testing experience** — Experience in a Financial Regulation advisory role or in Compliance/Legal, Financial Crime Oversight, Risk & Controls, or consultancy.
– **Professional qualification** — J.D., Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, or similar.
– **Regulatory familiarity** — Knowledge of Financial Crime, Reg E, UDAAP, E‑Sign Act, and state Money Transmission License regulations.
– **Regulatory interpretation** — Ability to analyze and interpret complex regulatory frameworks.
– **Technical communication** — Ability to communicate effectively with Product Managers and Engineers, offering practical and actionable recommendations.
– **Presentation skills** — Strong presentation abilities.
– **Problem solving** — Use regulations and data to drive business decisions.
– **Fast‑growth experience** — Experience or interest in fast‑growing environments.
– **Travel readiness** — Willingness to travel to Wise offices across countries.
– **Work authorization** — Legally authorized to work in the U.S.

### Some extra skills that would be great

– **Excel & GRC tools** — Familiarity with Excel, Confluence, Jira, and GRC platforms.
– **International collaboration** — Experience working with international teams and understanding global regulatory environments.

We’re people without borders — without judgment or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. If you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Qualifications aren’t everything. If you’ve got great experience and can articulate your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.

Because we believe diverse teams build better products, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under‑represented demographic.

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## Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We’re people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

We’re proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. Inclusive teams help us live our values and ensure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute to our mission, and able to progress in their careers.

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