Senior Manager - Group Regulatory Compliance

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We’re looking for a Senior Manager to join our Group Regulatory Compliance team. You will be based in our busy London headquarters and lead on governance for Wise Group Compliance, with a particular focus on emerging AI regulation, and support our regulatory processes in this space - both existing and emerging globally. This means that the ideal candidate will be someone who thrives at dealing with new and complex areas of regulation and delivering regulatory change within a business to meet these requirements. 

Our Group Compliance team is responsible for compliance frameworks and co-ordinating strategic regulatory initiatives across the 80 licences which Wise holds. The ideal candidate will have experience in delivering change within complex organisations and find this an appealing aspect of the role. 

This role will work across a range of stakeholders to help Wise shape and develop the use of AI by navigating and applying emerging regulatory requirements and partnering with functional areas across the business to drive and effect change. You will be responsible for advising on, overseeing, and creating comprehensive policies for AI compliance across the Group. To achieve this, you will partner with SMEs across our Privacy, Security, Risk and Engineering Teams to enhance Wise’s AI Governance. You will also be responsible for leading regulatory deep dives in multiple regions, conducting global gap analyses, and developing overarching, scalable frameworks designed to effectively manage the varying degrees of regulatory complexity across our diverse licenses and markets.   

You will need to be able to work closely and in detail with product, engineering and 1st and 2nd line compliance teams, therefore hands on experience and a problem-solving mindset are a huge benefit, as is technical expertise and of course, experience in regulatory compliance. 

You’ll therefore be a pro at stakeholder management, have a passion and interest in international regulation and be adept at spotting common requirements where we can support our teams around the world with their compliance obligations.

The work will be fast paced in this evolving field. The ideal candidate will be able to work and thrive in a fast paced environment where change is constant and be able to build controls, policies and frameworks from new. As Wise continues to grow and the Group Compliance function evolves, the nature of your work too may evolve to meet our business needs and develop over time.

If driving change, building new structures, controls, policies and frameworks and helping Wise to deliver money without borders sounds like a bit of you, read on. 

Your mission:

• Own, maintain and develop our Global AI Compliance policies documentation, building these out to support new products and features across the business. Be accountable for the build and execution of an effective AI oversight framework in line with relevant regulatory obligations. 

• Lead, develop and inspire a team of compliance professionals to oversee and promote our global frameworks around multiple regulations, and partner with our Regional Compliance Officers for the effective Group oversight of our licences around the world. 

• Collaborate with all lines of defence and be issues focussed, driving change and identifying areas for improvement. 

• Be detail focussed and comfortably engage to find solutions.

• Be adept at handling multiple projects and supporting other areas of the team or ad hoc projects if required. 

• Promote and advise on regulatory best practice across our global regulatory compliance programme;

• Contribute to our Global Training Strategy by developing Compliance Trainings on AI and other topics as required; and;

• Support the delivery of the regulatory compliance programme across our licensed entities.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Deliver change globally within a multi-national fintech

• Grow to lead and develop a team of compliance professionals

• Be creative - design and enhance our policy standards and processes, adapting to regulatory change and practices and business growth

• Worked for a leading payments fintech or within technology companies and be motivated to look for ways in which we can continually improve. 

• Experienced driving complex regulatory change particularly in areas of new regulation and in building out governance structures and practices.

• Have detailed knowledge of AI and emerging regulatory requirements in the UK and /or EU and how to apply these. Knowledge of other jurisdictions is a bonus. 

• Experience of and thrive when navigating in-depth product specifications to provide practical compliance advice to the business. 

• We would love it if you are tech-savvy and interested in how technology can help us to deliver our mission. Privacy experience is also a bonus. 

• Beneficial if you have experience leading small size teams, providing guidance and feedback to more junior team members.

• You’ll be excited to work at a fast growing and fast-paced technology company. 

• Be comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy, with a range of senior stakeholders and managing evolving priorities to deliver against the team’s strategy.

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