Sanctions Operations Senior Team Lead

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Wise Full time
Job Description

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 are looking for an experienced operations lead and sanctions expert to lead the Sanctions Specialist Team and Training Team within Sanctions Operations.

The Sanctions Specialist team serves as the sanctions subject matter experts responsible for reviewing and investigating all potential violations of OFAC, E.U., UK and other sanctions programs processed through Wise. This includes: reviewing and final approval regarding escalated alerts on transactions and matches to the OFAC, E.U., UK and any other applicable lists and programs; reviewing and approving licensed transactions; reporting blocked property and rejected transactions to the respective regulatory agencies; drafting and filing Voluntary Self-Disclosures to OFAC; investigation into potential circumvention attempts; advising teams on sanctions related issues and sanctions incidents. The team also owns training and knowledge management for the whole of Sanctions Operations.

Here's how you'll be contributing to the team:
Lead the Training and Specialist teams.
Lead complex operational projects acting as a subject matter expert for the rest of the business.
Reviewing current operational processes and policies
Implement effective controls to reduce risk
Maintain strong relationships with Compliance, ensuring we have the right structure and processes in place for effective oversight
Own the plan to develop sanctions operations team capabilities, strategic placement of staff across teams, skills and capacity over 12+ months, including skills mapping and training plans, leading significant cross-team projects requiring material decisions and content contribution as well as project management

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