Sanctions Team Lead

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

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.
For everyone, everywhere.

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We’re looking for a Sanctions Team Lead to lead our new Sanctions team in Austin..

The main purpose of the team is to screen Wise customers against sanctioned entities and carry out complex investigations on the alerts.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Sanctions team: 

• Hire, lead, develop and manage a Sanctions team, including amongst others administrative tasks such as scheduling, interviewing, organising team activities etc.

• Measure team's KPIs, plan capacity and maintain focus on customer experience; as well as taking ownership of various projects

• Develop effective operational processes, task allocation, training and performance management to deliver a great customer experience with a tightly managed cost base

• Collaborate with Wise’s Quality team to maintain a high quality of sanctions checks that were performed by the team

• Take decisions within our policy framework and working with compliance to evolve both our policies and processes

• Understand and manage training the team on our regulatory obligations, how our policies fulfil them and our risk-based approach to deterring and preventing money laundering and financial crime

• Able to represent the policies, processes and auditable screening work to regulators and auditors

• Work with third party management, outsourcing partners, product teams, customer support and across compliance to manage operational impact of changes and identify opportunities to improve the customer experience, increase automation or improve operational efficiencies.

About you: 

• You’re legally authorised to work in the US, we are unable to sponsor visa for this role

• You have at least 1-2 years sanctions specific experience, either in operations, management or compliance

• You have management experience in operations or compliance.

• You have previous work experience in the financial sector, compliance or similar (that has given you strong compliance knowledge and a good understanding of the relevant regulatory landscape); Sanctions experience is a big plus;

• You can multitask and take charge in different situations

• You have the ability to build and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally

• You have great communication and presentations skills to assist on internal and external projects and audits

• You have a good understanding of the team’s metrics and ability to analyse and move them

• You have a proven track record of taking ownership as well as being a great team-player

• You are familiar with reading legal and regulatory documents, formulating strategy to make informed decisions, and successfully execute plans

• You are able to persevere in a fast paced environment

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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