Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
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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.

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As a FinCrime Operations Project Specialist at Wise, you will be instrumental in driving the successful execution of critical projects within our FinCrime domain. This role focuses on translating strategic objectives into actionable plans, managing complex initiatives, and ensuring seamless collaboration across various teams to deliver solutions at scale. You'll thrive in the fast-paced Wise environment, where your ability to navigate change, identify challenges, and implement innovative solutions will be key to optimizing the FinCrime operations and product landscape. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Analytics, Product and Operations to ensure smooth execution and timely delivery of projects.

Project Execution and Support

• Lead and manage short, medium and long-term collaborative initiatives, serving as the central coordinator between diverse cross-functional teams.
• Capable of translating and simplifying complex issues into clear and concise project documentation. This includes creating precise, data-driven problem statements that are linked to overall FinCrime objectives, and then proactively coming up with actionable solutions.
• Own project documentation, ensuring comprehensive and up-to-date records are maintained for every project phase, from conception to closure, with clearly detailed impact analysis.
• Proactively manage project timelines, dependencies, and deliverables, ensuring all milestones are met on schedule.
• Orchestrate coordination among cross-functional teams (Operations, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Marketing, etc.) to ensure efficient task completion and resource allocation.
• Provide regular, transparent updates on project status, highlighting potential risks, challenges, and successful completions to all stakeholders.

Strategic Alignment & Support

• Partner closely with Product Managers and Operational Leads to translate high-level product visions and strategic objectives into detailed Operational project plans and actionable tasks.
• Contribute to defining key project milestones and deliverables, ensuring alignment with overall FinCrime product goals.
• Gather critical feedback from operational teams and analysts to identify pain points, understand user needs, and inform future project iterations and process improvements.

Process Optimization & Innovation

• Analyze team-level metrics and identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities within current FinCrime operational and product processes.
• Propose and implement data-driven improvements to streamline workflows, mitigate risks, and explore opportunities for automation.
• Collaborate with Operations and Engineering to design and execute solutions that enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the FinCrime landscape.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Enablement

• Serve as a key liaison between operations and engineering, clearly articulating project requirements and ensuring technical specifications align with project goals.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the operations team, providing support on emerging patterns, bug reports, and improvement suggestions related to FinCrime tools and processes.
• Independently investigate tooling needs and scope out  / design solutions to support the launch of new markets and products, ensuring operational readiness.

 What we are looking for

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to produce clear, concise, accurate, and professional reports, summaries, and customer communications. Additional languages are a plus.
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Ability to manage time independently while delivering projects by the expected deadline
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Basic to intermediate analytical skills including experience using Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Looker, Metabase, Superset
• Ability to embrace change and quickly adapt to evolving priorities
• Ability to make data-based decisions and prioritise projects accordingly
• Ability to think outside the box when figuring out new solutions
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to engage with senior stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail and a focus on delivering measurable results

Nice to have:

• Experience in FinCrime Operations/AML/Compliance
• Process Improvement: Familiarity with process improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.
• Basic to intermediate understanding of SQL

Please apply by submitting your resume in English. Applications in Portuguese will not be considered. 

Benefits: 

• 💰 Salary for this role is 12,000 BRL per month
• 🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company
• 💻 Flexible working model – During the first six months, you’ll be in office most days of the week to become fully immersed in Wise’s culture and ways of working. After the initial period, you’ll be in office at least 3 days per week. 
• 💪 An annual self-development budget
• 🩺 Health and dental allowance for you and your dependents
• 💝 Company-paid: Life Insurance, and an EAP program
• ☀️ Paid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 “Me” days + 1 volunteer day, annually
• 🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
• 👶🏼 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us and child care assistance
• 🚌 Transportation vouchers
• 🍕 Meal (708 BRL per month) and food (1,166 BRL per month) vouchers
• 🏋️ TotalPass access to 3,500 gyms and studios throughout Brazil
  
  Your first 3 months at Wise will be 100% fully in person at the office

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. 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 make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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