Compliance Senior Specialist

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
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Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

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Job Description

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Compliance Specialist to assist the Compliance Officer in India. This role will provide critical support in filing reports to the RBI, 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 (RBI) accurately, in a timely manner, ensuring all submissions are meeting the requirements. Respond to information requests from the regulator or auditors.
• 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 Officer:

• Assist Compliance Officer in India in managing both internal and external projects to ensure alignment with evolving regulations.
• Monitor compliance risks and KPIs, adhoc support for FinCrime matters, 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, cross border transactions, 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 the general regulatory framework in India.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Additional Information

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