Product Compliance Senior Manager - Financial Crime

About the role

Wise is looking for a Product Compliance and Risk Manager specialising in financial crime to join its APAC Wise Platform team. This is a first-line product compliance role embedded in the APAC and Wise Platform squad, focused on designing systemic product controls that prevent financial crime at scale rather than managing operational alerts. It is a strategic role that moves the financial crime framework beyond global baselines and scales products across APAC.

Key responsibilities

• Own the WP control framework: move product compliance assessments from generic global baselines to bespoke, market-specific frameworks, and test financial crime methodology and rules rigorously, designing new controls where needed.
• Run deep-dive retrospectives on live products and partnerships, and set up compliant foundations for new products before launch.
• Localise global financial crime controls for APAC, embedding regional nuances, partner expectations and regulations into the global framework, and act as the primary advocate for APAC compliance in global teams.
• Identify and resolve gaps across the retail offering and product solutions, prioritising high-impact issues based on risk.
• Support commercial and sales teams with a pragmatic, risk-based approach to institutional partner solutions.
• Work with global and regional Product and Engineering teams to turn regulatory needs into market-specific technical product requirements.

Required profile

• At least 6 years of experience in regulatory assurance or financial crime compliance within a fintech company; experience in correspondent banking, remittance or financial services partnerships across APAC is a bonus.
• Nice to have: willingness to travel, as Wise offices are spread across different countries.

Required skills

• Ability to analyse and interpret complex regulatory frameworks and apply them effectively.
• Problem-solving attitude, using regulation together with data to drive business decisions.
• Natural project owner who delivers projects proactively, on time and with attention to detail.
• Nice to have: collaboration with Product, Commercial and Compliance teams, clear communication and actionable recommendations.