Financial Crime Product Compliance & Risk Senior Manager

Company Overview

Wise is a global technology business focused on making international money movement and account management simpler, faster, and more affordable. Its mission is to help individuals and businesses send money across borders, spend internationally, and receive payments with less friction and lower cost.

By joining the team, you will contribute to building a new global money network designed to work for people everywhere.

Role Summary

Wise is looking for a Financial Crime Product Compliance & Risk Senior Manager to join the Product organisation in APAC, with a strong focus on Australia and New Zealand. This is a practical, hands-on position that offers the chance to influence product development, strengthen compliance outcomes, and support the company’s broader mission.

The role sits in the first line of defence and is embedded within the APAC Product Squad. It requires close partnership with product, risk, compliance, and global teams to help launch compliant products, manage financial crime exposure, and maintain a strong customer experience.

What You Will Do

You will help ensure Wise’s products are designed and operated in a compliant, scalable, and risk-aware way across AU/NZ.

• Work with product and other stakeholders to interpret financial crime regulatory requirements and translate them into practical improvements for products, controls, and internal processes.
• Assess financial crime risks for new products and services, and make sure the right controls are in place before launch.
• Support product teams in applying a risk-based approach when designing products, processes, and controls.
• Track financial crime developments and regulatory priorities across Australia and New Zealand.
• Partner with risk owners and second line of defence teams to identify key financial crime risks and issues, then communicate them clearly and help drive mitigation plans.
• Carry out regulatory gap analyses, define remediation actions, and own delivery of implementation plans within required timelines.
• Work with global teams to identify reuse opportunities and improve consistency and scalability across the Wise Group.
• Manage audits and, where needed, work with Product and second line risk/compliance teams to challenge findings.
• Create remediation plans and ensure they are agreed and completed promptly.

What This Role Offers

• A chance to deepen hands-on fintech and financial crime expertise in a fast-moving environment.
• Opportunity to help shape compliant, customer-friendly products.
• Close collaboration with local and global teams.
• A key role in building and improving Wise’s financial crime risk management approach for AU/NZ.

Additional Information

Wise states that it is building a money movement platform without borders and believes strong teams are diverse, equitable, and inclusive. The company values international perspectives and aims to create an environment where every employee feels respected, empowered, and able to grow in their career.

Information about the company culture and life at Wise is available through its own careers channels and social presence.