Director of Risk Analytics

About the Position

Director of Risk Analytics

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. 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.

We are seeking a Director of Risk Analytics to lead our data-driven risk management strategies and ensure audit-ready reporting. This role is highly strategic, focused on enabling the business to measure and manage risk across the full spectrum of major fintech risk domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and execution of the Enterprise Risk Analytics roadmap while coaching a high-performing team.
• Standardise risk metric calculation logic, KRIs/KPIs, and attribution logic while implementing sign-off processes to ensure data integrity.
• Partner with Data/Engineering to align instrumentation and data models with risk monitoring needs, ensuring reliable pipelines with clear data lineage.
• Drive insight-to-action loops, quantifying trade-offs between risk reduction, customer impact, and cost.
• Establish shared governance cadences (metric councils, steering groups) and foster 1st/2nd line collaboration to prevent drift across lines of defence.
• Provide analytics leadership for Financial, Fincrime, Ops, Resilience, and Reg stakeholders.

Requirements

• Proven analytics leadership in a scaled fintech, financial services, or regulated technology environment (3-7 years management experience).
• Familiarity with control frameworks and LoD models, and how analytics supports assurance and oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to build cross-domain measurement and reporting, including governance and audit/evidence expectations.
• Strong stakeholder leadership: able to align and deliver through complex, matrixed organisations-especially across 1st and 2nd line.
• Experience with risk quantification approaches (scenario drivers, stress-style thinking, trade-off modelling).
• Track record building durable analytics foundations (pipelines, metric layers, monitoring/quality controls, operating rhythms).
• High bar for metric integrity, clarity of narrative, and decision-making discipline.

Nice to Have

• Experience with operational resilience and/or technology reliability analytics (incidents, availability, recovery metrics).

We Offer

• Salary: £135K - £190K.
• Company Restricted Stock Units.
• Numerous great benefits in our London office.
• Key benefits:
  • Hybrid working.
  • Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities.
  • 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave.

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. 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.

Job Location

London, United Kingdom

Remote: No

Additional Information

To meet our regulatory obligations as a licensed financial services company, Wise needs to conduct background checks on all new hires, which in the Finance team includes Criminal and Credit checks. Please discuss with the Recruiter if you have any concerns regarding this process.

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