Lead Analyst - Risk & Controls

About the Position

Lead Analyst - Risk & Controls

We are looking for a Lead Product Analyst who is passionate about our mission of Money Without Borders to partner with our product, engineering, risk, and compliance teams to help drive data-driven decisions that would support building and scaling risk controls and assurance across our products.

Responsibilities

• Scale and improve our risk data infrastructure to enable our regional teams to dissect metrics at granular levels to proactively identify and mitigate against drivers of risk.
• Build out the metrics to monitor our controls and ensure that they are performing as required, as well as supporting control testing processes.
• Establish control efficiency frameworks by analyzing whether controls are effectively reducing risk while not adversely impacting growth.
• Partner with product, engineering, product risk, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to influence decisions with data around regional controls and risk.
• Partner closely with FinCrime to add a regional lens on global risk engines to ensure local risk typologies are monitored and appropriately managed.

Requirements

• At least 6+ years of experience
• Strong analytical mind and product intuition, centered around the banking and financial industry.
• Technical skill-set in Python, advanced SQL, BI tools
• Experience working with technical teams (PMs, engineers, analysts)
• Relevant experience in a data-driven and complex environment with limited guidance
• Understanding of events data - Mixpanel / Google Analytics / Amplitude or similar
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate data into compelling narratives
• Hustler-mentality. You can take work beyond the analysis and get things done.

Nice to Have

• Experience in Financial Crime and/or Customer Onboarding domain
• Knowledge of the fintech ecosystem
• Knowledge of utilities like Airflow/Github/DBT
• Experience with user-facing products and data

We Offer

• Salary: £75,000 - £115,000
• Company Restricted Stock Units
• Numerous great benefits in our London office
• 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.

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.

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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Job Location

London, United Kingdom