Country Manager

About the Position

We are looking for a Country Manager to join our team in South Africa. This is a unique opportunity to play a pioneering role in growing Wise in one of Africa’s most important financial markets, helping millions more potential customers save money by using our services.

Responsibilities

• Expanding Wise’s regulatory presence in South Africa.
• Building and improving relationships with banks, payment partners, and other financial institutions.
• Helping Product teams build better, faster, and more cost-effective products for customers.
• Driving Wise’s market expansion strategy from a payments infrastructure, regulatory, and operational partnerships point of view.

Requirements

• Able to independently negotiate ideal terms with a clear product vision and strong commercial understanding.
• Excellent at managing financial regulatory relationships and constantly creating opportunities to improve them.
• Deeply familiar with how financial, payments, and FX regulators work.
• Comfortable working with financial, payments, and FX regulation in a changing regulatory environment.
• Fluent in English.
• Happy to work independently and flexibly within a fast-moving environment.
• Passionate about transforming the financial industry for good.

Nice to Have

• Strong relationships and experience with regulators and payment ecosystem stakeholders in South Africa.
• Experience obtaining licenses, authorisations, or regulatory approvals in South Africa or comparable markets.
• Understanding of South Africa’s payments infrastructure and the nuances of the FX, remittance, and cross-border payments market.

We Offer

• Opportunity to be part of a global technology company.
• Work in a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.
• Be at the forefront of transforming the financial industry.

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. People and businesses all over the world use Wise to avoid big bank fees and week-long international wires when they send, spend, and receive money abroad. We have over 15 million customers who move $15 billion every month with us. We help them save more than $6 million in bank fees every day.

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