Compliance Senior Specialist at Wise

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Compliance Specialist to assist the Compliance Office in PH. This role will provide critical support in filing reports to the BSP, regulatory horizon scanning, project management, and identification and remediation of compliance issues. The ideal candidate will work closely with the Compliance Officer handling regulatory compliance, to ensure policies and practices adhere to local regulations and compliance standards.

Your mission:

• Manage reporting to regulators (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) accurately, in a timely manner, ensuring all submissions are meeting the requirements.

• Organise and securely store all regulatory communications in both physical and digital repositories for easy access and compliance, ensuring all submissions are organised and accessible.

• Access and navigate regulatory filing portals to track, trace, and manage deliverables, filings, and reporting requirements.

• Perform horizon scanning and maintaining our Regulatory Obligations Register (ROR)

• Drafting policies/manuals and ensuring they are always up to date

• Propose and lead projects to improve controls via training, process, or product improvements

• Proactively identify gaps and lead any remediation plans where necessary controls to comply with regulations have been missing.

Support Compliance Office

• Assist Compliance Officer in PH in managing both internal and external projects to ensure alignment with evolving regulations.

• Monitor compliance risks and KPIs, coordinate periodic governance and stakeholder review meetings, maintain robust compliance frameworks and documentation, and support liaison efforts during audits (internal, external, and regulatory).

Projects and compliance specific reviews : Depending on the compliance program and criticality, engage & manage specific and thematic compliance reviews.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in regulatory compliance.

• Expertise with the regulatory reporting processes, preferably from remittance, fx/mc, e-money or other fintech companies.

• Experience in monitoring and interpreting regulatory guidelines.

• Experience working independently and is able to navigate working culture at Wise.

• Eager to adapt swiftly in a new environment and always willing to learn new things

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, IT, Business, or a related field.

• In depth knowledge of general regulatory framework in PH.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.