Senior Regulatory Compliance Manager - Advisory

We’re looking for a Senior Regulatory Compliance Manager to support our UK Electronic Money Institution (EMI) and investment firm by providing regulatory advice and objective check and challenge to enable Wise to scale its UK businesses compliantly.  

Based in London, you will work with a growing team of multidisciplinary specialists (Risk, Legal, Product, Treasury, Security, Marketing) across the globe. You’ll help manage and strengthen the team’s approach to scaling products in compliance with regulations, managing the regulatory risks and developing governance and oversight arrangements. 

Your Mission: 

• Advise the business on regulatory requirements related to our UK EMI and investment businesses, particularly the Payment Services Regulation, Electronic Money Regulation, MIFID or IFPR/MIFDIDPRU and applicable sections of the FCA handbook related to payment or investment firms. 

• Handle escalations from first line teams on product developments, incidents and issues.

• Provide check and challenge to regulatory analysis, regulatory risk assessments and controls provided by our first line Product Risk and Compliance team.

• Support first line teams to identify and mitigate regulatory risks.

• Conduct regulatory analysis on upcoming changes to the regulatory perimeter and advise first line teams on their implementation plans to ensure they achieve compliance. 

• Draft regulatory compliance policies and guidance.

• Work closely with the wider regulatory team to manage our policy framework, regulatory engagement and reporting.

• Work with the first line business owners to ensure findings from audits and monitoring and testing are remediated efficiently and effectively

• Provide regulatory training and self-help materials to assist first line teams to comply with regulatory obligations and compliance policies. 

Our ideal candidate will have a regulatory advisory background, great communication and organisational skills, tons of motivation and positivity.  More specifically, we’re looking for someone who can demonstrate they have these attributes:

• Theory. You have a working knowledge of regulatory requirements relating to payment services or investment businesses, excluding financial crime regulations. 

• Practice. You have experience providing regulatory advice and mitigating regulatory risks relating to payments or investment products.

• Passion. You are a problem-solver. You get a kick out of finding innovative solutions and collaborating with different teams to deliver a mission and enable sustainable growth.

• Get the job done. You’re a strong relationship builder across all levels of the business and externally.  You have the ability to influence others and empower teams to comply with regulatory requirements and mitigate regulatory risks, whilst enabling growth.

• Responsibility. You have a sense of urgency and an ability to work well under pressure, prioritising, taking responsibility and accountability for your work.

• Communication.  You have strong written and verbal communication skills. You are able to deliver complex regulatory analysis and advice verbally and in writing. You are also able to understand advice, analysis and regulatory risk assessments produced by others and provide constructive feedback and objective challenge.

• Leadership and mentoring. You have experience managing or mentoring other employees and enabling them to develop their knowledge and skills.

• Travel. The role is London-based, but many of our teams are located across different office locations.  You’ll be ready to travel at least on a quarterly basis.

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