Senior Product Compliance Manager - Japan at Wise

Senior FinCrime Product Compliance & Risk Manager - Japan Location: Tokyo We’re looking for a Senior FinCrime Product Compliance & Risk Manager to work alongside our APAC Product teams to help launch new products and services, as well as maintain and upgrade our existing offering in Japan. You will work closely with the regional Product Managers to support a cross-functional team of Bankers, Engineers, Data Analysts and Operations Specialists. Your primary focus will be to help the APAC Product team expand our product offering in Japan and identify and effectively manage FinCrime compliance risks across our existing and new products. You will be expected to maintain a strong awareness of the impact of FinCrime trends and regulation on the viability of our products.   Your mission:  Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Your mission is to enable our APAC Product team to launch new products, grow our presence and manage compliance risks in Japan through a deep understanding of FinCrime requirements and regulatory expectations.  You will exhibit a high degree of ownership in ensuring our products are compliant and have a structured approach to mitigating local FinCrime risks, all while balancing this with an excellent customer experience. This is a first line of defence, hands-on role, embedded in the APAC Product Squad.  You, together with the team in Japan, will be responsible for... Creating and improving our products in a compliant and scalable way:  • By deeply understanding both the Wise product and regulatory FinCrime needs in Japan, support Product and other teams on interpreting FinCrime requirements, and improving processes, controls and our product accordingly; • Perform FinCrime risk assessments of new products and services, and ensure that related controls are implemented consistently prior to launch; and • Enable Product teams to adopt a risk-based approach in developing products, processes, and controls. FinCrime risk management: • Stay ahead of FinCrime trends and the regulatory agenda in Japan; and • Identify and align with risk owners and second line of defence on the main FinCrime risks and issues in Japan. Present this in a very clear and understandable way to wider teams, and work collaboratively to define and execute mitigation plans. Regulatory change and remediation:   • Conduct regulatory gap analyses, define and scope required actions to remediate gaps, and take ownership to ensure implementation plans are executed in a timely manner; and • In collaboration with global teams, identify opportunities to maximise synergies and drive consistency and scalability by leveraging programs of work already executed or in-flight across the Wise Group. Audit management:   • Manage audits, and (where required) challenge audit findings in collaboration with Product and second line of defence Risk and Compliance teams; and • Develop remediation plans, and ensure they are agreed upon and executed promptly. This role will give you the opportunity to:  • Grow your hands-on Fintech knowledge at full speed;  • Build state-of-the-art products that are compliant for our customers and regulators;  • Keep compliance at the heart of the product development cycle, in a fast-moving environment;  • Work together with all our amazing teams both locally and globally; and • Play a key role in owning and shaping Wise’s FinCrime risk management program in Japan.