Compliance Senior Specialist

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

As a Senior Compliance Specialist, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring Wise's adherence to regulatory requirements, particularly those supporting our ongoing licensing and regulatory reporting requirements.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Regulatory Reporting: Develop and maintain oversight of all US and Canada regulatory reporting obligations, ensuring timely and accurate submission of ongoing and ad hoc reporting requests. 

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the right stakeholders identify, harmonize,  and report the right data to the right regulators. 

• Reporting Governance: Develop and maintain processes and procedures to support oversight of regulatory reporting obligations. 

• Regulatory Engagements & RFIs: Support the compliance team by facilitating response to all reporting requests received during regulatory engagements such as audits, exams, and compliance reviews.

• Record Retention: Ensure all supporting records are retained in compliance with all regulatory requirements. 

About you: 

• Prior experience (or interest in) working in the fast-paced financial-technology industry, at a payment company or at another licensed entity in risk or compliance.  

• Knowledge of money transmission, unclaimed property, and consumer compliance regulations (Reg E, UDAAP, E-Sign Act, etc.)

• Strong communication skills (written and oral) with ability to communicate effectively with regulators and auditors. 

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.

• Results orientated, with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines. 

• Experience working with internal cross-functional stakeholders including product, operation, finance, legal, and people teams

• Discretion and personal integrity, especially in regards to sensitive financial, personal, and corporate information

• Ability to be both reactive and help solve problems in the moment as well as proactive, building longer term solutions using data-driven decision making

• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.

• Bachelor's degree or directly relevant experience

Some extra skills that would be great: 

• MSB experience in licensing and / or regulatory reporting,  including experience utilizing NMLS and US / Canadian state and territory portals and processes.

• Solid understanding of internal and external reporting systems (NMLS, NAUPA, etc.)

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

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

• Experience using G-Suite, Office, Confluence, Jira and collaborative tools (e.g. Slack, Teams)

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.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. 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.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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