Compliance Lead
4 days ago
**Company Description**
Since 2011, Wise has had a clear mission: money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives, we’re the fairest, easiest way to manage your money across borders.
We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.
We’re looking for a Compliance Lead - UAE to strengthen our compliance team. Based in our Dubai Office, you will work with a growing team of multidisciplinary specialists (Product, Treasury, Bank Product, Security, Financial Crime) to help build world class products in the UAE. You will also manage and strengthen the teams’ relationships with regulators by being the Regulator’s first point of contact, keeping everybody informed and protecting our most valuable asset - our customers.
Your mission
Oversight
- Oversight of all regulatory developments in scope of Wise’s operations in the UAE and work with internal teams for appropriate awareness of UAE regulatory framework requirements.
- Build / Improve the Compliance Programme in line with regulations and our mission to be instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.
- Ensure appropriate training to the company senior management and the board of directors on the AML/CFT and other regulatory matters as applicable.
- Setup and maintain Fincrime monthly review reports to ensure appropriate challenge of first line processes.
- Own up Fincrime reporting processes and address regulatory queries and feedback and fin-crime escalations from Legal Enforcement Agencies in the UAE.
Governance
- Localising the compliance policies including AML policy and KYC/CDD guidelines and update as required pursuant to new developments in regulations.
- Verify the existence of relevant controls related to the integrity and quality of the information transmitted to the FIU-UAE within the framework of the STR/SAR reports.
- Report to the Board of Directors on the health of financial crime and regulatory compliance, and advise the board with any emerging issue within the compliance program.
Monitoring & Testing
- Ensure the effectiveness of the compliance programme through regular testing and monitoring.
- Regularly assess the money laundering and terrorist financing risk management and corresponding controls as well as the effectiveness and design of these measures reduce these risks.
- Review & authorise relationships with high-risk customers as required.
- Develop systems to track and monitor our regulatory and financial crime risks, compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Build trust with our regulator: manage and coordinate meaningful reporting internally and externally, respond to information requests, and proactively communicate product changes and notifiable events.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of Wise’s business and get to know many teams across the company as you liaise with them to help them understand the regulatory framework and bring together the information that our regulators need.
Help keep compliance right at the heart of our product developments and new initiatives by horizon-scanning for new regulatory developments and sharing these with the teams.
**Qualifications**
A bit about you:
If you have a background in payments or other financial regulation, great communication and organisational skills, tons of motivation, then this role could be perfect for you
- Theory. You are an expert in regulatory compliance and may be currently working, have worked, or work directly with either the Central bank, ADGM or DIFC.You will have demonstrable experience designing and challenging controls and processes, ideally across multiple products.
- Practice. You have a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in AML/CFT compliance within a financial institution, or five (5) if you possess a specific certification related to AML/CFT compliance e.g ACFCS, CFE, ICA Diplomas, CAMS or any other certification associated with financial crime control or AML/CFT compliance.
- Get the job done. You have a sense of urgency and an ability to work well under pressure, prioritising, taking responsibility and working to tight deadlines.
- Detail. You have meticulous attention to detail and if you’ve skimmed through without reading this bullet point, this probably isn’t the right role for you.
- Development. You’ve considered the challenges and development opportunities of working at a fast growing scale-up and are looking to get into FinTech or payments compliance.
- Language. You are proficient in spoken and written English. Arabic would be a bonus.
Travel. You must be willing to complete a one month onboarding in one of our offices in Europe before you begin in the role in Dubai. You must be able to travel to London and/or Tallinn on a
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