FinCrime Operations Team Lead - Sanctions at Wise

We are looking for a Sanctions Team Lead to help build and guide our newly established Sanctions Screening team in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of our Brazil operations, mentor a growing team of specialists, and directly impact Wise’s compliance mission. If you are a natural leader who thrives on navigating complex regulatory changes, developing talent, and optimizing investigative workflows, this role is for you.

Your mission:

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the world’s first platform to offer true multi-currency banking.

We’re looking for a Sanctions Team Lead to lead our new Sanctions team in Sao Paulo, Brazil..

The main purpose of the team is to screen Wise customers against sanctioned entities and carry out complex investigations on the alerts.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the Sanctions Screening team:

• Hire, lead, develop and manage a Sanctions team, including amongst others administrative tasks such as scheduling, interviewing, organising team activities etc.

• Measure team's KPIs, plan capacity and maintain focus on customer experience; as well as taking ownership of various projects

• Develop effective operational processes, task allocation, training and performance management to deliver a great customer experience with a tightly managed cost base

• Collaborate with Wise’s Quality team to maintain a high quality of sanctions checks that were performed by the team

• Take decisions within our policy framework and working with compliance to evolve both our policies and processes

• Understand and manage training the team on our regulatory obligations, how our policies fulfil them and our risk-based approach to deterring and preventing money laundering and financial crime

• Able to represent the policies, processes and auditable screening work to regulators and auditors

• Work with third party management, outsourcing partners, product teams, customer support and across compliance to manage operational impact of changes and identify opportunities to improve the customer experience, increase automation or improve operational efficiencies.
  

Qualifications

• You’re legally authorised to work in Sao Paulo, Brazil

• You have management experience in operations or compliance

• You have previous work experience in the financial sector, compliance or similar (that has given you strong compliance knowledge and a good understanding of the relevant regulatory landscape); Sanctions experience is a big plus

• You have the ability to build and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally

• You have great communication and presentations skills to assist on internal and external projects and audits

• You have a good understanding of the team’s metrics and ability to analyse and move them

• You have a proven track record of taking ownership as well as being a great team-player

• You are familiar with reading legal and regulatory documents, formulating strategy to make informed decisions, and successfully execute plans

• You are able to persevere in a fast paced environment.

Nice to have:

• Certified in ABRACAM (ABT1)
  

Additional Information

Please note, only resumes provided in English will be considered

Our Benefits:

💰 Salary range for this role is from 15,400 - 17,750 BRL (Monthly), CLT, plus benefits, and RSUs.

🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company

💻 Flexible working model – During the first six months, you’ll be in office most days of the week to become fully immersed in Wise’s culture and ways of working. After the initial period, you’ll be in office at least 3 days per week.

💪 An annual self-development budget

🩺 Health and dental allowance for you and your dependents

💝 Company-paid: Life Insurance, and an EAP program

☀️ Paid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 “Me” days + 1 volunteer day, annually

🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

👶🏼 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us and child care assistance

🚌 Transportation vouchers

🍕 Meal (708 BRL per month) and food (1,166 BRL per month) vouchers

🏋️ TotalPass access to 3,500 gyms and studios throughout Brazil