FinCrime Operations Team Lead - Sanctions

We are looking for a Sanctions Team Lead to help guide and scale our established Sanctions Screening team in São 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 join our newly established Sanctions team.

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.

About you: 

• 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 can multitask and take charge in different situations

• 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)

*Please note, only resumes provided in English will be considered*

Our Benefits:

🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company

💻 Flexible working model 

💪 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

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

🚌 Transportation vouchers

🍕 Food (730 BRL per month) and meal (1,188 BRL per month) vouchers

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

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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