About Team / Role
As a Global Risk Operations Program Manager, you will be the strategic engine behind an organization managing over $100B in annual payments (inbound and outbound) and safeguarding over $10B in client and consumer assets. You won't just track projects; you will provide strategic oversight and drive critical initiatives across financial operations domains such as Collections, Billing, and Treasury Operations that directly protect WEX's bottom line and transform the customer experience. This is a high-visibility role where your ability to navigate a complex global financial ecosystem ensures operational integrity and fuels our next phase of growth.
How You'll Make an Impact
STRATEGIC PLANNING & INITIATIVE IDENTIFICATION
Pipeline Development: Partner with Risk Operations Leadership to identify and document critical initiatives required to deliver operational risk targets and achieve customer experience goals.
LOB Alignment: Maintain a deep understanding of Global Risk Operations across Mobility, CPS/Travel, and Benefits LOBs to ensure initiatives align with unique regulatory, financial integrity, and operational needs.
PROGRAM EXECUTION & PROJECT LEADERSHIP
Capital & Tech Liaison: Serve as the primary Global Risk Operations oversight lead for Capital Funded Initiatives and Product/Technology roadmaps, ensuring operational requirements are prioritized and tracked across the enterprise.
Cross-Functional Governance: Provide rigorous oversight of the project portfolio, acting as the bridge between technical teams and Risk Operations to ensure product releases align with the organization's capital funding objectives.
Executive Visibility: Manage and report on a wide variety of projects with varying complexity, providing leadership with a high-level view of progress, roadblocks, and financial impacts to eliminate the need for leadership attendance at every project-level meeting.
Risk Mitigation Oversight: Maintain constant visibility into issues and risks across the portfolio, driving teams toward closure and escalating only the most critical items to senior leadership for intervention.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT & COMMUNICATION
Facilitation: Conduct effective facilitation sessions with multiple stakeholders to move complex projects forward and reach consensus.
Visual Artifacts: Translate complex workflows and technical specifications into visual artifacts using standard tools to ensure cross-functional understanding.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Build strong relationships and facilitate alignment across senior management, sales, account management, legal, audit, and risk departments.
These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed rather than give an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.
Experience You'll Bring
Minimum Qualifications for Consideration:
Bachelor’s degree OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
7-10 years of experience managing a portfolio of interrelated initiatives (programs) within a financial risk operations environment, with a proven ability to align multiple projects to achieve overarching operational risk targets.
Demonstrated ability to deconflict resources and timelines across multiple workstreams to ensure consistent delivery of high-scale financial initiatives.
Proficiency in project management and visualization software (e.g., LucidChart, Draw.io) to translate complex workflows into visual artifacts.
Functional understanding of compliance and operational risk management to ensure Domain Leaders are engaged for the validation of SOX, SOC, and regulatory control integrity.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to research, analyze, and present complex findings to drive decision-making.
Must successfully pass a background investigation.
Competencies:
2+ years of experience building consensus and driving results through cross-functional partners rather than direct reporting lines.
Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, with the ability to facilitate alignment and consensus among senior management, legal, and audit departments.
Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment while managing multiple shifting priorities.
A dynamic self-starter who can work independently to drive projects to closure while also functioning as a collaborative team member.
Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with global leadership and functional SMEs to ensure project success.
High degree of attention to detail, specifically in documenting initiatives and measuring them against defined financial and operational metrics.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience managing projects within Collections, Payment Operations, or other Risk Operations domain.
Experience with international financial regulations.
Strong analytical skills including ability to research, analyze and present findings
Demonstrated organizational skills, attention to detail and multitasking skills
Must be dynamic and a self-starter, able to work independently or as part of a team
Ability to work in a high-pressure environment
Experience in compliance or operational risk management.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- 7–10 years managing portfolios of interrelated initiatives within a financial risk operations environment
- Experience aligning multiple projects to achieve operational risk targets
- Experience deconflicting resources and timelines across multiple workstreams
- Proficiency in project management and visualization software, such as LucidChart or Draw.io
- Functional understanding of compliance and operational risk management
- Ability to validate SOX, SOC, and regulatory control integrity with domain leaders
- Strong analytical skills, including researching, analyzing, and presenting complex findings
- Successful completion of a background investigation
- At least 2 years building consensus and driving results through cross-functional partners
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to facilitate alignment and consensus among senior management, legal, and audit departments
- Ability to manage multiple shifting priorities in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships with global leadership and functional subject matter experts
- Strong attention to detail in documenting initiatives and measuring financial and operational metrics
- Experience managing projects within Collections, Payment Operations, or another Risk Operations domain
- Experience with international financial regulations
- Experience in compliance or operational risk management
WEX Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave offerings are portrayed as a standout, with generous PTO and additional paid time for volunteering. Time-off flexibility is also positioned as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience.
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WEX Inc. Insights
What We Do
We simplify complex payment systems for fleets, corporate payments, and healthcare—unlocking insights, opportunities, and efficiencies to give you greater control of your business. Powered by the belief that complex payment systems can be made simple, WEX (NYSE: WEX) is a leading financial technology service provider across a wide spectrum of sectors, including fleet, travel and healthcare. WEX operates in more than 10 countries and in more than 20 currencies through approximately 4,900 associates around the world. WEX fleet cards offer approximately 14 million vehicles exceptional payment security and control; our travel and corporate solutions business processes over $35 billion of purchase volume annually; and the WEX Health financial technology platform helps 343,000 employers and more than 28 million consumers better manage healthcare expenses.
