We’re looking for a Regulatory Compliance Lead for Pacific (Australia and New Zealand). Based in Sydney , you will work with a growing team of multidisciplinary specialists (Product, Treasury, Bank Product, Security based in our offices in APAC and HQ in London) to help build world class products in the Pacific. You’ll help manage and strengthen the team’s relationships with regulators by having a clear overview of our regulatory requirements and how we meet them through our products, processes and controls. You’ll have ultimate responsibility for maintaining our Pacific regulatory authorisations and ensuring that these remain appropriate for our product offerings and features.
Your mission:
- Be accountable, for the build and execution of an effective and scalable Compliance oversight programme for the Pacific region.
- Lead and inspire a team of Compliance professionals across Australia and Singapore, that oversee both regulatory and financial crime compliance.
- Build trust with our regulators: as a senior leader you are responsible for overseeing the relationship with our regulators in the markets and working with your team to develop an effective regulatory engagement plan that considers both the routine as well as the proactive engagement strategy that you design.
- Comfortably engage in the details of projects and be able to provide technical compliance support across your immediate team and the region, being able to step in and do the job if needed.
- Manage the relationship with Wise Australia’s Board with regards to Compliance matters, by being able to speak to the detail of projects and cases.
- Collaborate with our Internal Audit function, to ensure that our assurance processes are aligned and appropriate.
- Own, maintain and update existing Pacific compliance frameworks, policies and documentation and build these out to support new products.
- Monitor our regulatory and financial crime risk, and be able to develop response plans where needed.
- Build out and strengthen our existing control framework through implementing clear and auditable processes that are consistent with regional requirements.
- Take on and own new challenges that arise in any area of the compliance programme on a project basis. Take a problem-solving approach, whether designing a new process to be implemented or driving an effort for multiple teams to work together to meet new regulatory requirements.
- As an accountable person under the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) holder which will move to FAR, you will collaborate with other senior leaders in the region to collectively solve problems.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of Wise’s business and get to know many teams across the company as you liaise with them to help them understand the regulatory framework and bring together the information that our regulators need.
- Help keep compliance right at the heart of our product developments by managing our compliance obligations across APRA, ASIC and AUSTRAC, managing regulatory change, driving second line monitoring and oversight, and providing assurance to Group SLT, Wise Australia Board and Group Board. Support new initiatives by ensuring new initiatives are compliantly launched.
