Product Compliance Senior Manager - India

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We’re looking for a Product Compliance Senior Manager to lead our growing team in India and to help out build and improve our Wise products in a compliant way in India. This role is a first line Compliance role, giving you a unique opportunity to advise and work closely with our India Product Team and have an impact on Wise’s mission.

You, together with the team in India, will be responsible for:  

Compliantly creating and improving our amazing products in India:

• Deeply understand regulatory 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 regulatory analysis of new products and services, and ensure controls are implemented appropriately prior to launch. 

Regulatory risk and remediation:  

• By understanding both the Wise product deeply enough and the local regulatory expectations - support Product and other teams on how to interpret the local regulatory requirements, improve processes and our product to avoid regulatory breaches and/or incidents; 

• In collaboration with second line Compliance and Risk, identify and align on the main regulatory risks in India. Present this in a very clear and understandable way to the wider teams, to work with them on defining the solutions and how this should be executed. 

Third party relationships: 

• Represent Wise in external meetings (with for example regulators, bank partners, auditors), being able to clearly and effectively articulate all Wise Products ; 

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

This role will give you the opportunity to: 

• Grow your hands-on Fintech knowledge at full speed; 

• Keep compliance right at the heart of the product development cycle, in a fast-moving environment

• Be empowered to identify ‘regulatory problems’ and opportunities and take a lead in the solution design and implementation

• Work together with all our amazing teams globally 

Expertise / Experience:

• Previous financial regulation advisory role or experience in a compliance/legal department, risk and control function or in a consultancy environment. You have experience dealing with regulatory audits and understand the expectations of local regulators/policymakers; 

• Expert in regulatory and fincrime compliance (or both) having a background in Financial Regulation and a thorough knowledge of regulations in India; 

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

• Ability to prioritise effectively and call-out what are the key areas of improvement and implementation required from a regulatory point of view; 

• Ability to effectively communicate with Product Managers and Engineers and provide practical, actionable, and value added recommendations; 

Other:

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

• A natural owner, that drives and delivers project from inception to completion, timely and with attention to the details; 

• A true team player with a collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively with different stakeholders, such as Product and Compliance;

• Legally authorised to work in India;

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

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