Senior Regulatory Exams & Audits Manager

Senior Regulatory Exams & Audits Manager

We’re looking for a Senior Regulatory Exams & Audits Manager to join our growing North America Regulatory Oversight Compliance team. 

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams and lead our efforts in managing regulatory and financial crime exams, audits, and financial partner compliance reviews, helping ensure Wise remains compliant as we scale.

You’ll also help shape and evolve our second-line compliance framework, providing critical insights to product, operations, and leadership teams, and helping embed compliance into everything we do.

If you're passionate about building programs and processes that make compliance smart, scalable, and transparent—and you’re excited to work at the intersection of tech and financial services regulation—we’d love to hear from you.

Your mission:

As a Senior Regulatory Exams & Audits Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring Wise's adherence to regulatory requirements, particularly those supporting our regulatory examinations, audits, and financial partner reviews.  Your responsibilities will include:

• Audit & Examination Program Management: Lead, evolve, and build our exam and audit engagement program to support end-to-end management of all regulatory compliance engagements from preparation through management action plans. Manage all requests for information by liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate response.

• Engagement Strategy: Develop methodologies and enhancements for delivering high quality responses, communications, and deliverables, aligned with both regulatory requirements and Wise’ mission. 

• Engagement Reporting: Deliver reporting and insights to senior management to support and anticipate auditors and examiners areas of focus, concern and overall sentiment. 

• Engagement Representation: Serve as the primary point of contact for Northam examinations, audits, and financial partner reviews and represent Wise and our mission to all key stakeholders. 

• Compliance Framework Development: Support the development and maintenance of Wise's Regulatory Compliance oversight framework, by embedding the Audit & Examination program into the regional Compliance Management System, including the development of all policies and procedures and governance, required for oversight of all exams and audits.

About you: 

• Previous experiencing managing complex regulatory examinations, audits, and requests;

• Robust experience working with regulators and financial partners;

• Subject matter expertise in licensing, financial crime, and consumer compliance regulations in the US & Canada (MSBs, Consumer Compliance, etc.); 

• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration experience working closely with operational, finance, product, and engineering teams;

• Strong ability to effectively communicate with internal stakeholders such as Product Managers and Engineers, providing practical, actionable, and value added recommendations; 

• Strong presentation skills;

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

• Familiarity with project management, knowledge management, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tools (Confluence, Jira, gSuite, Office, Slack, etc.).

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

• Experience (or interest) in working in a fast-growing environment; 

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

• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Some extra skills that would be great: 

• Experience working with international teams and understanding of global regulatory environments.

• J.D., Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) or similar qualification.

• Prior experience working with the CFPB, OCC, and/or state regulators (e.g. NYDFS, CA DFPI).

We’re people without borders — without judgment or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Also, qualifications aren’t that important to us. If you’ve got great experience, and you’re great at articulating your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.

And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic.