Compliance Senior Specialist

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Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist

We’re looking for a Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist to join our growing North America Regulatory Oversight Compliance team. In this role, you’ll be a key partner in managing our regulatory obligations, particularly as they relate to ongoing regulatory changes and policy management.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams and lead our efforts in delivering regulatory change management, helping ensure Wise remains compliant as we scale. You’ll also help shape and evolve our second-line compliance framework, providing critical insights to product, operations, and leadership teams, and helping embed compliance into everything we do.

If you're passionate about systems that make compliance smart, scalable, and transparent—and you’re excited to work at the intersection of tech and financial services regulation—we’d love to hear from you.

Your mission: 

As a Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist,  you will be on the front lines of a dynamic regulatory landscape, helping us understand what’s coming and ensuring our internal policies and controls are prepared for it. You will work closely with your team to monitor regulatory changes, provide insightful analysis to the business, and manage the lifecycle of our core compliance documentation.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Horizon Scanning & Regulatory Intelligence: Monitor, identify, and track proposed and final regulations, guidance, and enforcement actions from key US regulators (e.g., CFPB, FinCEN, OCC, FTC, state banking departments like NYDFS).

• Regulatory Advisory Support: Support Compliance in conducting impact assessments for new laws and regulations. Also, assist in translating complex regulatory requirements into actionable business and product requirements for our internal teams.

• Policy Governance and Management: Assist in the end-to-end lifecycle of our compliance policies and procedures, including drafting, reviewing, and updating documents to reflect new regulations or business changes.

• General Compliance Support: Assist in gathering information for regulatory inquiries, examinations, and internal audits. Also, participate in special projects and initiatives as directed by the Compliance Lead.

About you: 

• Knowledge of money transmission, consumer compliance regulations (Reg E, UDAAP, E-Sign Act, etc.) and Financial crime regulations (OFAC, FinCEN, BSA etc.)

• 3 years experience in a compliance, risk, or legal role at a fintech company, money service business (MSB), or another regulated financial institution.

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

• Communicating effectively with external stakeholders including auditors and regulators

• Very detail oriented

• Strong research and analytical skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Highly organized and proactive

• Experience (or interest) in working at a fast-paced internet, technology, or financial services companies in risk or compliance

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

• Willing to travel, as Wise offices are located across different countries; and

• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Some extra skills that would be great: 

• Experience using regulatory intelligence or GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) platforms.

• Professional certification such as CAMS, CIPP, or CRCM.

• Experience with both US and Canadian regulatory frameworks.

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

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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