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Working alongside an existing team of Safeguarding specialists and reporting to the Global Safeguarding Accountable Owner, your role is to assist each of the existing controllers and product managers in ensuring the APAC safeguarding control framework runs smoothly. The role will span across both safeguarding for payments and e-money and investment business and offers a fantastic opportunity to learn about the handovers between the regimes. You will also be joining at an exciting time of product growth and expansion..
Your Mission
- You will play a crucial role in ensuring that new product launches are compliant with safeguarding regulations and controlled in a proportionate manner
- You will be responsible for ensuring completeness of our policies and procedures and coordinate with individual controllers to obtain attestations of the controls operation and alignment to the controls framework
- You will be responsible for coordinating and implementing a first line of defence assurance for APAC safeguarding controls
- You will be responsible for maintaining the APAC safeguarding risk and controls matrix for the APAC entities
- You will be the first point of escalation of discrepancies identified by the Reconciliations team for safeguarding reconciliations and provide SME advise on their resolution and treatment
- You will be involved in the incidents management process and link incidents to control failures, which will enable senior management to see themes within the control environment
- You will be responsible for MAS regulatory reporting and other safeguarding regulatory reporting preparation
- You will be responsible for the annual safeguarding audit coordination
- 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
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 technical skills and knowledge by being involved in several change management programmes relating to regulatory uplifts across different territories as well as related to implementing new products or features working with our engineering team to ensure these are safeguarding compliant.
- Stepping stone - This role provides an excellent platform for someone looking to step into the safeguarding 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 as part of day-to-day activities.
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.
- Technical knowledge - You have a good level of understanding of safeguarding in APAC (Singapore preferred) across investment business and payments and would like to expand this through hands-on experience
- Practice - You have sound writing skills and ability to convey regulation in a clear manner to fellow colleagues who are not SMEs and communicate key risks related to these regulations
- 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 Safeguarding 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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Skills Required
- Good understanding of APAC safeguarding regulations (Singapore preferred)
- Experience with safeguarding across payment, e-money and investment regimes
- Ability to prepare MAS and other safeguarding regulatory reporting
- Sound writing skills and ability to explain regulation clearly to non-SMEs
- Experience or aptitude for maintaining risk and controls matrices and first-line assurance
- Experience liaising with reconciliations teams and resolving safeguarding discrepancies
- Ability to coordinate annual audits and act as point of contact for audit activities
- Proactive problem solving, commercial acumen and ability to work collaboratively in multinational teams
- Willingness to travel occasionally and join video calls across time zones
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Wise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all employees via time‑based RSUs/stock awards, aligning staff with company performance. This broad accessibility makes ownership a core part of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include a global minimum of 33–36 paid days off and a paid six‑week sabbatical after four years with a cash stipend. The sabbatical is positioned as a standard milestone benefit in addition to annual leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Wise commits to a minimum of 18 weeks’ fully paid parental leave for birth or adoption across many offices. Eligibility rules and tenure may apply by location while maintaining a companywide minimum standard.
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What We Do
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world's money. Launched in 2011, Wise is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable tech companies. In fiscal year 2025, Wise supported around 15.6 million people and businesses, processing over $185 billion in cross-border transactions and saving customers around $2.6 billion.
Why Work With Us
We’re truly global in who we are, how we work, and how we build. Everything we do is centred around creating a world of money that’s fast, easy, fair. And open to all. Everyone who works here owns a piece of Wise, from the work they do, to the stock they hold.
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