AML Reporting Team Lead

Company Description

Your Mission At Wise, we are fully devoted to our Mission: Money without borders. Instant, convenient, and eventually free. Over 16 million people and businesses use Wise, which processes over £9 billion in cross-border transactions every month, saving customers over £1.5 billion a year. We serve a wide range of customers from personal users, freelancers, small businesses and increasingly even to large enterprises and banks. Wise also offers over 50 currencies for customers to hold and convert money in. As an Associate Product Manager joining the Product Academy, you will be placed in one of our teams that both power Wise and ensure our customers have a safe and convenient experience when using us. You will get to build your skills in Product Management through a tailored learning program in combination with executing on real problems. After your successful graduation from the Product Academy, you will transition into a full-time member of the Wise Product team!

Job Description

We are looking for a capable AML Reporting Team Lead to help us to lead a team of suspicious activity reporting specialists in Tallinn. 

The role is a unique opportunity to join one of the fastest growing fintech companies in Europe and help millions of customers save money by using Wise, while contributing to fighting financial crime on a global scale. 

Your mission: 

As an AML Reporting Team Lead you will have the opportunity to lead and develop a financial crime team, which is responsible for reporting suspicious activities. You will have ownership of making data-driven decisions, identifying areas for improvement, seeking scalable solutions, mitigating risks and ensuring compliance to the relevant regulations and legislations.

What you’ll get to do:

• Hire, lead, develop and manage a suspicious activity reporting team; 

• Monitor and verify your team's KPIs and manage capacity;

• Develop effective operational processes and task allocation; 

• Be accountable for quality assurance for AML reporting team, taking decisions within our policy framework;

• Understand and manage training for the team on our regulatory obligations and how our processes fulfil them; 

• Confidently represent the policies and processes to regulators and auditors upon need;

• Communicate with customers to handle escalated or complicated cases with strong customer empathy;

• Work with other teams in Wise to ensure compliance with regulations and manage operational impact of changes with focus on operational efficiency and customer experience.;

• Identify compliance risk in operational procedures and contribute to implementing changes as needed;

• Other ad hoc duties that need to be done.

Qualifications

• Physically located in Estonia, unfortunately we won't be considering candidates from outside of Estonia

• Excellent verbal & written English, any other languages are a plus;

• At least 2 years of previous team leading experience (preferably in an international business environment); 

• Previous experience in AML, fraud, internal controls, audit, law enforcement or investigating suspicious activity will be beneficial;

• Ability to multitask, prioritise and take responsibility in challenging situations;

• Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally;

• Great communication and presentation skills to support internal and external projects and audits;

• Good understanding of metrics and ability to analyse and move team’s performance;

• Target oriented and able to make data-based decisions

• Proven track record of taking individual ownership and responsibilities as well as being a great team-player.

Additional Information

If this sounds like the beginning of a great new challenge for you, please apply by submitting your CV and cover letter in English. Please use the message to hiring team form for your cover letter! In your cover letter, please bring out what is your previous exposure to AML or FinCrime (if applicable), your leadership experience, why you would be a suitable candidate for this role and what is your motivation for joining our team. Please note that an application without a cover letter will not be considered. 

Application process: 

• Application review 
• Take home test / case study
• 60 minute final interview via Zoom 

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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