Your mission:

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the world’s first platform to offer true multi-currency banking.

We’re looking for a Sanctions Team Lead to lead our new Sanctions team in Austin..

The main purpose of the team is to screen Wise customers against sanctioned entities and carry out complex investigations on the alerts.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Sanctions team: 

• Hire, lead, develop and manage a Sanctions team, including amongst others administrative tasks such as scheduling, interviewing, organising team activities etc.

• Measure team's KPIs, plan capacity and maintain focus on customer experience; as well as taking ownership of various projects

• Develop effective operational processes, task allocation, training and performance management to deliver a great customer experience with a tightly managed cost base

• Collaborate with Wise’s Quality team to maintain a high quality of sanctions checks that were performed by the team

• Take decisions within our policy framework and working with compliance to evolve both our policies and processes

• Understand and manage training the team on our regulatory obligations, how our policies fulfil them and our risk-based approach to deterring and preventing money laundering and financial crime

• Able to represent the policies, processes and auditable screening work to regulators and auditors

• Work with third party management, outsourcing partners, product teams, customer support and across compliance to manage operational impact of changes and identify opportunities to improve the customer experience, increase automation or improve operational efficiencies.

About you: 

• You’re legally authorised to work in the US, we are unable to sponsor visa for this role

• You have management experience in operations or compliance.

• You have previous work experience in the financial sector, compliance or similar (that has given you strong compliance knowledge and a good understanding of the relevant regulatory landscape); Sanctions experience is a big plus;

• You can multitask and take charge in different situations

• You have the ability to build and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally

• You have great communication and presentations skills to assist on internal and external projects and audits

• You have a good understanding of the team’s metrics and ability to analyse and move them

• You have a proven track record of taking ownership as well as being a great team-player

• You are familiar with reading legal and regulatory documents, formulating strategy to make informed decisions, and successfully execute plans

• You are able to persevere in a fast paced environment

What do we offer: 

Key benefits: 

💸  Starting salary: USD 87500

🚀  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.

✈️  Wisers can work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to

💪  An annual self-development budget

🩺  Medical, dental, & vision insurance – including HSA and FSA options

💝  Company-paid: Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and an EAP program

☀️  25 days PTO, 15 sick days, 11 bank holidays, 5 compassionate leave days, 3 paid “Me” days and a paid volunteer day, annually

🏝️  A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

👶🏼  18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us

💰  401k with up to a 4% employer match

🏆 BuiltIn Award winner for Best Places to Work and Best Large Places to Work

Click HERE for more info on our benefits Austin

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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