Senior Product Compliance and Risk Manager - MEA (Middle East & Africa)

We are looking for a candidate ready to leverage their MEA regulatory compliance 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 Worlds first platform to offer true international multi-currency accounts. Your mission is to enable our MEA product teams to launch new products and manage our risk profile through a deep understanding of the regulatory requirements and Regulators expectations around them. Heres how youll be contributing to the MEA Regulatory Product Compliance and Risk 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;Design scalable and customer-centric solutions to regulatory requirements; andOffer 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 MEA Product Compliance & Risk Team you will identify and manage Regulatory Risks across all products offered to and for customers in the fast growing MEA region;Oversee the control environment for MEA 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; andWork with Product Teams and the wider Compliance & Risk 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 Wises products and compliance framework.This role will give you the opportunity to: Grow your hands-on Regulatory cross-border payments knowledge at full speed; Keep compliance right at the heart of the product development cycle in a fast-moving environment;  Be empowered to identify regulatory problems and take a lead in the solution design and implementation; About you: You have a regulatory-legal background and Financial Regulation advisory experience you are comfortable interpreting MEA regulations;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.Some extra skills that would be great: Previous experience in a financial institution regulated in the MEA region (i.e. UAE Trkiye South Africa Nigeria or Saudi Arabia ) Previous experience as a consultant in the financial sector in the MEA regionPrevious experience working at the Regulator or directly with regulators is a plus (CBUAE DFSA FSCA)Experience in Payment Regulations / ComplianceNice to have: Arabic and/or Turkish speaking Further information: Were people without borders without judgment or prejudice too. We want to work with the best people no matter their background. So if youre passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission youll fit right in.Also qualifications arent that important to us. If youve got great experience and youre great at articulating your thinking wed like to hear from you.And because we believe that diverse teams build better products wed especially love to hear from you if youre from an under-represented demographic.Additional Information : For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.Were 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.If you want to find out more about what its like to work at Wise visit .Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.Remote Work : NoEmployment Type : Full-time Key Skills Compliance Management,Risk Management,Financial Services,PCI,Banking,Cost Accounting Standards,Quality Systems,Research Experience,NIST Standards,Securities Law,SOX,ISO 27000 Experience: years Vacancy: 1