Wise
Regional Head of AML Investigations
Austin, , United States
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About the role
- 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.
- If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Oversight & Risk Mitigation: Lead a multi-layered AML organization function of approximately 200 people.
- Drive high-performance through leadership of 5 Senior Team Leads (direct reports) and 20 Team Leads, ensuring workflows are optimized for both high-volume efficiency and deep-dive quality.
- Proactively identify emerging financial crime trends and implement investigative strategies to protect the platform.
- Results-Oriented Execution: Drive the delivery of KPIs that align with regional business objectives, ensuring that AML operations support seamless service delivery and customer experience, aligning with the Global AML operation plans and objectives.
- Operational Excellence: Build and maintain scalable high performance teams, uplifting skills level, demonstrating proactiveness, ensuring the timely, high-quality filing of SARs/STRs.
- Regulatory Liaison & Governance: Act as the primary regional lead for all internal audits and regulatory exams, ensuring our governance framework is always transparent and review-ready.
- Global & Matrix Alignment: Provide dedicated support to the Global Head of AML Operations and to the Head of AML Investigations Service Delivery by ensuring regional initiatives remain synchronized with the global AML strategy.
- You will act as a key conduit for information, escalating regional insights and implementing global best practices to maintain a consistent and unified approach to financial crime across Wise.
- We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too.
- Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.
Requirements
- You will mentor Senior Team Leads, investigative leads and specialists, building the technical expertise required to handle complex cross-border cases.
Company info
- Foster a high-performing, mission-driven culture of curiosity and integrity, building the technical expertise required to handle complex cases while continuously evolving the team structure to stay ahead of rapid regional growth.
- Stakeholder & Product Collaboration:
- Accountable for the regional roadmap of risk tooling, partnering with Product, Engineering and Global Compliance teams to architect automated investigative solutions.
- Operational Resilience & Scalability:
- Align investigative capacity with the regional growth roadmap, identifying resource gaps and implementing technological solutions to meet executive-level execution goals.
- Regulatory Liaison & Governance:
- Act as the primary regional lead for all internal audits and regulatory exams, ensuring our governance framework is always transparent and review-ready.
- Global & Matrix Alignment:
- Provide dedicated support to the Global Head of AML Operations and to the Head of AML Investigations Service Delivery by ensuring regional initiatives remain synchronized with the global AML strategy.
- For everyone, everywhere.
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