Governance Specialist (Treasury Risk) - 12 month FTC

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.
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Please note: this is a 12 month FTC position

Working alongside an existing team of Treasury controllers and reporting to the head of Treasury controlling, your role is to assist each of the controllers in governance and reporting across all of financial and regulatory risks. The role will span across Safeguarding, CASS, Liquidity, Market and Credit risk and offers a fantastic opportunity to learn across all of these areas and build an understanding of how a risk management framework functions. You will primarily be responsible with production of committee packs, key performance reports as well as tracking and facilitating the management of key incidents and issues across Treasury risk.

Your Mission

• You will play a crucial role in ensuring that the governance across all of our key risk committees is performed in an accurate and timely manner. This will include facilitating meetings, following up on action points and coordinating risk approval requests.

• You will own the production of risk committee packs for Safeguarding, CASS, Liquidity, Market and Credit Risk.

• You will take ownership in coordinating teams for completion of actions in relation to these committees 

• You will ensure that appropriate information is cascaded between committees to enable synergy and better decision-making

• By designing and implementing key performance metrics you will assist Treasury in developing their suite of management information to showcase the work the team are doing.

• The role will also allow you to work alongside the Treasury controllers in ongoing projects involving building first line controls to actively manage risk.

• You will help document, challenge and build an end to end view of our internal control environment to illustrate key risks, controls and processes. This will all be done within our internal risk management software

• You will be involved in the designing and implementation of a full testing plan for Treasury controls both on an ongoing basis and using stressed scenarios.

• You will be a key coordinator for the Risk and Control self assessment for all Treasury risks.

• As a further development to the role you will provide cross cover for all of the individual risk controllers, allowing you to build professional skills such as chairing of meetings, determining the appropriate quorum for attendance and decision making, and drafting or updating terms of references to account for changes in our environments.

• You will be responsible for ensuring Treasury SOX controls are maintained at the required standard.

• Effectively support and challenge the product engineering, operations and product leadership teams on their journey to evolve and mature our risk and control environment. 

• Work closely with Treasury teams during planning sessions to help guide and deliver on control design improvements. We love automation and our engineers will need your help to design the most efficient controls. 

• Keep on track of control remediation findings and also monitor the progress for internal and external audit actions to ensure they are completed on time and actions are adequate to mitigate the inherent risk identified.

Opportunities

• Own your own path of success - You’ll have a high level of autonomy and responsibility.

• Grow with the role - You will have the exposure and opportunity to speak to key senior members of the organisation getting into the details of remediation steps. You will be able to develop your leadership skills by managing delivery of remediation points with contacts across the business. 

• Stepping stone - This role provides an excellent platform for someone looking to step into the treasury function of a fast growing Fintech.

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of Wise’s business - Get to know many teams across the business as you partner with them to help them implement a risk and control culture. 

A bit about you:

• Theory - You are keen to learn more about Fintechs and the inner workings of an organisation dealing with high volume transactions. 

• Financial Knowledge - You have a basic understanding of financial risks and would love the opportunity to learn  more about the function of a risk management and controls team

• Practice - You have sound writing skills and ability to produce professional reporting packs.

• Love getting things done - You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and take responsibility to do whatever needs doing to solve problems. You take a proactive approach in resolving complex issues. We get it done!

• Commercial acumen - You understand the value of taking a balanced approach to risk and controls to support the growth of the business. 

• Collaborative - You work well in a multinational team environment and know how to have an impact through others. No Drama Good Karma!

• Development - You are keen to learn and develop your knowledge of how a FinTech and fast growing scale-up operates.  

Our Treasury team is spread across the globe, but mainly in London and Tallinn, so there are some video calls and some travel involved for treasury wide initiatives.

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