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 life 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.
Job Description
We’re looking for a dedicated Suspicious Activity Reporting Specialist to join our growing financial crime fighting team in Sao Paulo. This role is a unique opportunity to have an impact on Wise’s mission and grow as a specialist in financial crime. Your mission is to protect our customers and Wise by reporting suspicious activity.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about financial crime risk and keen working in a fast paced and rapidly growing fintech environment.
Your mission:
- Analyze customer’s account and payment activity
- Summarize investigation findings
- Independently prepare and submit suspicious activity reports to financial intelligence units
- Prepare escalations to global teams for suspicious activity reporting in other jurisdictions
- Establish and maintain effective professional working relationships at all levels of the organization
- Help to onboard new joiners to the team by providing guidance and technical support
Qualifications
As our ideal candidate you will ideally have previous experience working in compliance operations, AML, fraud, internal controls, audit, law enforcement or investigating suspicious activity.
In addition, you have excellent communication skills both in verbal and written skills in English and Portuguese (additional languages are a plus). More specifically, we’re looking for someone who can demonstrate they have these attributes:
- Please apply by submitting your resume in English. Applications in Portuguese will not be considered
- Theory. You are well versed in financial crime topics. Ideally you have previous work experience to demonstrate it
- Practice. You have a demonstrable experience of analyzing information (preferably related to financial crime). You have at least a Bachelor’s degree. You are comfortable articulating and justifying your decisions and making independent judgement calls
- Passion. You are curious and proactive by nature, you love solving puzzles and you get a kick out of figuring things out and enjoy expressing your thoughts concisely and logically
- Get the job done. You have a sense of urgency and ability to work well under pressure, prioritizing, taking ownership and working to tight deadlines
- Detail. You have meticulous attention to details, enjoy interpreting data and weighing different aspects (and risks) to make decisions
- Development. You’ve considered the challenges and development opportunities of working at a fast growing scale/up and are looking to contribute to Wise’s mission
Additional Information
- Please apply by submitting your resume in English. Applications in Portuguese will not be considered
- This is a hybrid position located in Sao Paulo (Vila Madalena), and not fully remote. You must be able to commute to the office or open to relocation
- Salary for this position is 8,000 BRL gross monthly, plus benefits, and RSUs
Benefits
- 🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company after a year with us
- 💻 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
- 🩺 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
- Click here to learn more about the benefits that we offer at Wise
#LI-CM1
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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
What We Do
We’re making a positive, irreversible change in the world of finance. Together.
People on every continent around the world are choosing Wise to help them live, travel and work internationally. We’re the fairest, easiest way to send money overseas.
Built by and for people who live global lives, we make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. This is money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.
For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B, but behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies and routes, that’s being designed, built and powered by our talented teams in cities around the world.
We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.
Why Work With Us
We are a mission-driven company, looking to change banking for the better. Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So, we’re building a new one. If you're looking for an autonomous work environment, where you'll face cool challenges, learn and grow, you'll like working at Wise
Gallery
WISE Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Here at Wise we have a hybrid working model – a mix of working from home and from the office. Wisers can also 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!
