UK Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager in London

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.

We're looking for a driven, high-energy individual who will be joining our new Group & UK FinCrime Compliance Monitoring & Testing (CMT) team as a Manager. In this role, you will work closely with colleagues from a wide variety of teams including Product, Operations and Compliance to lead and execute both global and UK-focused FinCrime monitoring & testing / assurance reviews that protect Wise and our customers from financial crime. You will ensure that more junior team members adequately follow our monitoring and testing methodologies and industry best practices, coaching them along the way to deliver best-in-class work.

Your work will help ensure our FinCrime controls remain robust, scalable, and aligned with both global and local regulatory requirements. By collaborating with cross-functional teams and regional stakeholders, you will play an integral part in protecting Wise's customers, reputation, and business operations.

Key responsibilities / Your Mission

• Control testing & issue validation: Supervise the control reviews end-to-end from Scoping to Reporting as well as our issue validation work, ensuring the team appropriately follows our methodologies & best practices and every deliverable meets top-quality standards. You will also ensure reviews are delivered in a timely manner.
• Monitoring: Lead the execution of monitoring activities over key FinCrime risks, looking for compliance gaps and actionable insights, and prepare monitoring reports that will be shared with management.
• Coaching & Development: Provide guidance to junior CMT team members on an ongoing basis, upskilling them and helping them understand methodologies, test scripts, and best practices.
• Stakeholder management: Work closely with senior stakeholders from all three Lines of Defense (Operations, Product, Compliance, Internal Audit) to ensure the effective and impactful delivery of our CMT reviews.

Qualifications

• Experience: Demonstrable experience (>5 years) conducting and leading assurance reviews & issue validation work within Compliance, Financial Crime, Risk, or Audit functions; experience in a payments or fintech environment preferred.
• Knowledge: Good knowledge of Financial Crime regulations, testing methodologies, and risk assessment frameworks, particularly in relation to UK rules and global compliance requirements.
• Team & Quality management: Experience managing a small team on a day-to-day basis, prioritising work to meet deadlines, and coaching more junior team members to help them develop and ensure they deliver high-quality work.
• Skills: Excellent analytical, organisational, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into effective monitoring and testing activities and to engage with senior stakeholders in an effective manner.
• Travel: Based in London, you're open to occasional travel to other locations abroad (roughly once a quarter) to keep our global CMT efforts aligned.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in law, finance, or related fields. Relevant certifications (e.g., ACAMS, ICA) are preferred.

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.