Financial Crime Product Compliance (Senior) Manager - South-East Asia

Salary Range: SGD 9,250 - 14,083 per month + RSUs

Location: Singapore

We’re looking for a Financial Crime Product Compliance (Senior) Manager to work alongside our APAC Product teams to help  launch new products and services, as well as maintain and upgrade our existing offering in South-East Asia. You will work closely with the regional Product Managers, to support a cross-functional team of Bankers, Engineers, Data Analysts and Operations Specialists.

Your primary focus will be to help the APAC Product team to expand the offering of our product in the SEA and identify and effectively manage financial crime compliance risks across a range of the existing and new products. You will be expected to maintain a strong awareness of the impact of regulation on commercial viability and technological innovation. 

This is a first line Product Compliance role, embedded in the APAC Product Squad and working closely with the global FinCrime Squad. 

Your Mission

Launch New Products and Features: 

• Deep understanding of regulatory FinCrime needs, translate this into solutions, and work together with the Product Teams to build compliant new products and services  in a customer-oriented way; 

• Perform FinCrime risk assessments of new products and services, and ensure that  proper controls are implemented prior to launch; and

• EmpowerProduct Teams to adopt a risk-based approach in developing products, processes, and controls.

Manage and Mitigate Fincrime Risk:  

• Identify and manage Financial Crime Risks across all Wise products offered in SEA.

• Perform pre-launch and ongoing risk assessments, offering effective advice to Product Managers on existing and forthcoming regulations, gaps and risks.

• Collaborate with colleagues in the Compliance Oversight team (2LoD) to ensure Product Teams are aware of new and upcoming regulations and guidance from Regulators and industry groups.

Maintain an enterprise wide view of risk:

• Escalate breaches and FinCrime risks to Compliance Oversight in order to help maintain an enterprise wide view of Wise’s FinCrime risk environment; 

• Identify related risk typologies and ensure that the relevant specialist teams (i.e. Financial Crime subteams) have provided input into the product lifecycle;  

• Assist Product Teams in developing and maintaining track of relevant risks across their product, including mitigation plans, action owners and timelines to completion. 

Third Party Relationships: 

• Represent Wise in external meetings (regulators or auditor) and being able to clearly and effectively articulate Wise’s FinCrime control  framework; 

• Provide input on FinCrime related matters, always representing Wise customer-oriented culture while ensuring compliance.