Group & FinCrime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Senior Manager

• Work closely with the Group & FinCrime CMT Lead to create, manage, and execute global and UK-focused financial crime monitoring and testing programmes. • Protect Wise and its customers from financial crime through those programmes. • Partner with stakeholders across all three lines of defence, from Operations and Product through second-line Compliance specialists to Internal Audit. • Enhance internal controls and promote an overall culture of compliance. • Maintain monitoring and testing methodologies so they stay aligned with global regulatory requirements and industry best practice. • Keep FinCrime controls robust, scalable, and aligned with both global and local regulation. • Work from London, three days on site and two from home, on 9am to 6pm hours. • Travel abroad occasionally, roughly once a quarter, to keep global CMT efforts aligned.

• Bring more than eight years of demonstrable experience conducting and leading assurance reviews and issue validation work within Compliance, Financial Crime, Risk, or Audit functions. • Bring strong knowledge of financial crime regulations, testing methodologies, and risk assessment frameworks, particularly UK rules and global compliance requirements. • Show a proven track record leading compliance monitoring and testing reviews across multiple jurisdictions. • Collaborate effectively with both local and global teams. • Coach more junior team members so they develop and deliver high-quality work. • Bring excellent analytical, organisational, and communication skills. • Translate complex regulatory requirements into effective monitoring and testing activities. • Engage senior stakeholders effectively. • Hold a bachelor’s degree in law, finance, or a related field. • Base yourself in London and stay open to occasional travel abroad around once a quarter.

• Bring experience from a payments or fintech environment, which is preferred. • Hold relevant certifications such as ACAMS or ICA. • Work with subject matter experts and data analysts to build monitoring dashboards. • Spot opportunities to streamline monitoring and testing and cut duplicated effort across regions. • Enjoy training first line teams on remediation practice rather than only reporting findings.

• Collaborate with the Group & FinCrime CMT Lead to define annual review plans and make sure they are executed on time. • Support the Lead with regular management and board-level reporting on key findings, trends, and risk levels. • Supervise control reviews end to end from scoping through to reporting, alongside issue validation work. • Make sure the team follows methodologies and best practice and that every deliverable meets top-quality standards. • Train first line teams on effective remediation practice so they can close actions confidently. • Lead the execution and roll-out of monitoring activities over key FinCrime risks, building dashboards and actionable insight with SMEs and analysts. • Create and maintain repeatable test scripts and documentation aligned to Wise’s global FinCrime obligations. • Maintain global monitoring and testing methodologies against regulatory requirements and industry best practice. • Work with senior stakeholders across all three lines of defence to keep CMT reviews aligned with regulatory and business priorities. • Provide guidance and training to junior CMT team members and cross-functional partners.

We have been Wise customers for years and have always had a great experience. We love their transparent approach in everything they do, from showing the correct exchange rates to disclosing all their fees, and even being honest about how they work. Founded in 2010 in London, Wise is now a publicly traded company operating in over 160 countries, generating 1.2+ billion pounds in revenue (2025) and is highly profitable. What we especially love at Wise is their work from anywhere policy after 6 months: Basically you can remotely work from (almost) anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. As they are solving a massive problem and are strongly mission-driven, we are sure that any individual passionate about working on complex, impactful problems in sending money globally efficiently, while continuing to work on the much-loved Wise solutions, will love working there.

• Earn £89,000 to £127,000 a year. • Own control testing and monitoring across multiple jurisdictions rather than a single market. • Contribute to management and board-level reporting on compliance performance. • Travel abroad roughly once a quarter to work with regional teams. • Develop junior team members and shape how the CMT function operates. • Work three days on site in London and two from home, on 9am to 6pm hours. • Join a truly international team that treats diversity, equity, and inclusion as central to how it works.

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money, with minimum fees, maximum ease, and full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise exists to make their lives easier and save them money. Its Group and FinCrime Compliance Monitoring and Testing function runs the assurance programmes that keep financial crime controls robust across jurisdictions, working across all three lines of defence from Operations and Product through to Internal Audit. Wise builds money without borders and without judgement or prejudice, on the view that teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.