Product Compliance Senior Manager - Fincrime

We’re looking for a Product Compliance and Risk Manager with a specialisation in financial crime to join our APAC Wise Platform team. This is a high impact, strategic role designed to move our financial crime framework beyond global baselines, deeply localising and scaling our products across APAC. This is a first line Product Compliance role, embedded in the APAC and Wise Platform Squad. You will not be managing operational alerts; instead, you will design systemic product controls that prevent financial crime at scale. Your scope includes:

Financial crime regulatory and control assessments

• Own the WP control framework: Move our product compliance assessments from generic global baselines to bespoke, market-specific frameworks.
• Rigorous rule testing: Execute rigorous testing of financial crime methodology and rules to verify that they are working appropriately, designing new controls where required.
• Retrospective and future-proofing: Lead deep-dive retrospectives on existing live products and partnerships while similarly setting up compliant compliance foundations for new products prior to launch.

Regional localisation and global alignment

• APAC smart localisation: Specifically assess how global financial crime controls land in APAC. You will ensure local nuances, partner expectations, and regional regulations are deeply embedded into the core global WP framework.
• Global voice: Act as the primary advocate for APAC Wise Platform Product Compliance within global infrastructure teams, ensuring regional risks are prioritised.

Strategic issue management and remediation

• Proactive gap management: Identify, scope and resolve known and unknown gaps across our retail offering and specialised WP product solutions.
• Risk-based prioritisation and resolution: Apply your financial crime and regulatory expertise to determine high impact issues to resolve on a timely basis.

Product, engineering and partner negotiation

• Commercial enablement: Unblock our commercial and sales teams by applying a pragmatic, risk-based approach to institutional partner solutions.
• Control design: Collaborate with global and regional Product and Engineering teams to translate regulatory needs into market-specific, technical product requirements.