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Job DescriptionWe’re looking for a FinCrime Quality Team Lead to join our growing team.
Quality Assurance Senior Lead - Sanctions
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. As the Quality Assurance Senior Team Lead, your role is to set the QA strategy for the sanctions domain, deliver against plans and KPIs, and build a credible, trusted team. You will use your subject matter expertise to ensure the accuracy, validity, and value of all QA outcomes. You will drive continuous improvement and partner with wider business stakeholders to deliver actionable insights that improve quality and champion a culture of risk management.
Your Responsibilities:
Area Leadership & People Management: Lead by example with a customer and risk-proportionate mindset. Coach and develop a high-performing QA team, delivering initiatives to grow their skills and managing succession plans for senior leads.
Operational & Performance Management: Take accountability for the Sanction QA area’s delivery against KPIs and objectives. Identify process improvements, monitor resource allocation, and refine standard operating procedures to scale operations.
Expertise Sharing: Act as a subject matter expert in Sanctions policy, Quality Assurance and risk management. Validate complex case outcomes, lead audit interactions, and assist the Compliance team in evolving internal procedures.
Planning & Execution: Own the QA strategy, including sampling methodology, test scripts, and scorecards. Manage forecast demand and capacity plans to ensure KPIs and SLAs are consistently achieved.
Stakeholder Management: Build constructive relationships with Operational Leaders. Translate QA data into a compelling narrative to communicate complex topics in an engaging way and influence business change.
About you:
Experienced Leader: 4+ years of proven leadership experience in operations or compliance, with at least 2 years leading a medium-sized organisation (20-40 people).
Domain Experience: +3 years of Sanctions experience working in the financial services sector.
Compliance Expert: Advanced knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to Sanctions, with a deep understanding of global regulatory frameworks in financial services or payments.
Data-Driven: Ability to use analytics to manage your domain, move team metrics, and translate data into trends that influence continuous improvement.
Tech Forward: A promoter of AI literacy, identifying opportunities for automation and AI within the QA process to improve efficiency.
Great Communicator: Fluent in English with the ability to clearly communicate complex topics and influence senior stakeholders.
Problem Solver: Ability to challenge ways of working, critically assess data, and manage challenges before they escalate.
Salary: 4 000 - 5 500 EUR Monthly gross + RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of proven leadership experience in operations or compliance, including at least 2 years leading a 20-40 person team.
- 3+ years of sanctions experience in the financial services sector.
- Advanced knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to sanctions and global regulatory frameworks for financial services/payments.
- Experience owning QA strategy, sampling methodology, test scripts, scorecards, and delivering against KPIs/SLAs.
- Ability to use analytics to manage domain performance, interpret metrics, and influence continuous improvement.
- Fluent in English with strong stakeholder communication and ability to influence senior leaders.
- Promote AI literacy and identify opportunities for automation and AI to improve QA efficiency.
- Subject matter expertise in quality assurance, risk management, and sanctions policy; ability to validate complex case outcomes and support audits.
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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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