Senior Product Compliance Manager - Europe

Job Description

We are looking for a candidate ready to leverage their EU and or Belgian regulatory legal experience in a dynamic, fintech environment. This is an exciting, hands-on opportunity working directly with product managers, analysts and engineers to launch and manage compliant products. 

Your mission: 

• Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the World’s first platform to offer true international multi-currency accounts. Your mission is to enable our EU product teams to launch new products and manage our risk profile through a deep understanding of the regulatory requirements and Regulator’s expectations around them. 

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the UK Regulatory Product Compliance team, in the first line: 

Collaborate on Product Design:

• Empower Product Teams to build risk based products, processes, and controls; 

• Collaborate to design practical and customer-oriented product solutions while ensuring full compliance of the product; 

• Perform pre-launch and ongoing product compliance legal and regulatory analysis and risk assessments; and

• Design scalable and customer-centric solutions to regulatory requirements; 

• Offer effective advice to Product Managers on existing and forthcoming Regulations, gaps, and risks. 

Manage and Mitigate Regulatory Risks and the Control Environment: 

• As part of the EU Product Compliance & Risk Team, you will identify and manage Regulatory Risks across all products offered to and for customers in the EEA;

• Oversee the control environment for Europe, designing effective, creative and targeted controls and evaluating the residual risk exposure;

• Collaborate with Compliance colleagues, to ensure Wise Product Teams are constantly aware of the most recent regulations and guidance; and

• Work with Product Teams and the wider Risk & Compliance Team to implement and maintain Management Information that enables Wise to make informed decisions at the regional and Global levels. 

Audit, issue management and remediation: 

• Conduct audit management and, where required, challenge audit findings in collaboration with Compliance second line and Product teams; 

• Develop and deliver effective issue management to mitigate regulatory risks;

• Represent Wise in meetings with Banking Partners and Central Banks, being able to clearly and effectively articulate Wise’s products and compliance framework.

Qualifications

• You have a legal background and Financial Regulation advisory experience, you are comfortable interpreting EU regulations;

• Experience with regulations like: PSD2, NBB Circulars, EBA guidelines and other EU regulations relevant to our product suite; 

• Ability to analyze and interpret complex regulatory frameworks and apply them effectively;

• Ability to effectively communicate with Product Managers and Engineers and provide practical, actionable, and value added recommendations; 

• Problem solving attitude, with the ability to use regulations together with data to drive business decisions; 

• Experience (or interest) in working in a fast-growing environment and working directly with product teams; 

• Willing to travel, as Wise offices are located across different countries; and

• Legally authorized to work in the the EU (Belgium)

Some extra skills that would be great: 

• Able to speak French or Dutch fluently.

• Previous experience in a financial institution regulated in Belgium.

• Previous experience as a consultant in the financial sector in Belgium.

Additional Information

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