About the Position

FinCrime Operations Team Lead - Sanctions

We are seeking a Sanctions Team Lead to guide and scale our Sanctions Screening team in São Paulo, Brazil.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of our Brazil operations, mentor a growing team of specialists, and directly impact Wise’s compliance mission. If you are a natural leader who thrives on navigating complex regulatory changes, developing talent, and optimizing investigative workflows, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

Hire, lead, develop, and manage a Sanctions team, including administrative tasks such as scheduling, interviewing, organizing team activities, etc.
Measure team's KPIs, plan capacity, and maintain focus on customer experience; as well as taking ownership of various projects.
Develop effective operational processes, task allocation, training, and performance management to deliver a great customer experience with a tightly managed cost base.
Collaborate with Wise’s Quality team to maintain a high quality of sanctions checks performed by the team.
Take decisions within our policy framework and work with compliance to evolve both our policies and processes.
Understand and manage training the team on our regulatory obligations, how our policies fulfill them, and our risk-based approach to deterring and preventing money laundering and financial crime.
Represent the policies, processes, and auditable screening work to regulators and auditors.
Work with third-party management, outsourcing partners, product teams, customer support, and across compliance to manage operational impact of changes and identify opportunities to improve the customer experience, increase automation, or improve operational efficiencies.

Requirements

Legally authorized to work in São Paulo, Brazil.
Management experience in operations or compliance.
Previous work experience in the financial sector, compliance, or similar (that has given you strong compliance knowledge and a good understanding of the relevant regulatory landscape); Sanctions experience is a big plus.
Ability to multitask and take charge in different situations.
Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally.
Great communication and presentation skills to assist on internal and external projects and audits.
Good understanding of the team’s metrics and ability to analyze and move them.
Proven track record of taking ownership as well as being a great team-player.
Familiarity with reading legal and regulatory documents, formulating strategy to make informed decisions, and successfully executing plans.
Ability to persevere in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

Certified in ABRACAM (ABT1)

We Offer

🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company

💻 Flexible working model

💪 An annual self-development budget

🩺 Health and dental allowance for you and your dependents

💝 Company-paid: Life Insurance, and an EAP program

☀️ Paid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 “Me” days + 1 volunteer day, annually

🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years

👶🏼 8-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us and child care assistance

🚌 Transportation vouchers

🍕 Food (730 BRL per month) and meal (1,188 BRL per month) vouchers

🏋️ TotalPass access to 3,500 gyms and studios throughout Brazil

About the Company

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

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

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.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Location

São Paulo, Brazil

Compensation: BRL 17500 - BRL 23500 - monthly

Employment Type: Full-time

Please note, only resumes provided in English will be considered

FinCrime Operations Team Lead - Sanctions

Job description