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**Lead Product Analyst - Risk & Controls at Wise (London)** - **Role:** Lead a team to build & scale risk controls across Wise's products, enhancing security and user trust. - **Responsibilities:** - Enhance risk data infrastructure to enable granular analysis. - Develop metrics to monitor controls and support testing processes. - Establish control efficiency frameworks. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence data-driven decisions. - Liaise with FinCrime to manage local risk typologies. - **Required Skills:** - 6+ years experience - Strong analytical mind and product intuition, financial industry focus. - Technical proficiency in Python, advanced SQL, BI tools, events data (Mixpanel/Google Analytics/Amplitude). - Stakeholder management and communication skills. - Hustler mentality. - **Nice to have:** - Financial Crime/Customer Onboarding experience - Fintech ecosystem knowledge - Experience with user-facing products and data - **Benefits:** - Competitive salary (£75,000 - £115,000) - Company stock units, great London office benefits, paid leave & sabbatical. - **Location:** London (Hybrid working)
- Compensation
- £75,000 – £115,000 GBP
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Full Job Description
Lead Product Analyst - Risk & Controls
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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the worlds 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.
Were 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.
The focus of this team is to ensure continuous regulatory compliance across all our product streams. Were the team that builds guardrails that ensure that our customers can transact on the platform with a peace of mind, knowing that their accounts and funds are kept safe, and products adhere to global regulatory standards.
How youll contribute:
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.
Building 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 analysing whether controls are effectively reducing risk while not adversely impacting growth.
Partner with product, engineering, product risk and 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.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
Choose your path to impact we believe people are most empowered when they can act independently. So rather than telling you what to do, youll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but youll have the freedom to make your own calls
Grow as a Product Analyst Grow and inspire your team and others across Wise
Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our product while working with a group of multi disciplinary teams of amazing, smart and dedicated product analysts, engineers, product managers, researchers, designers and many more
The freedom to have real impact The opportunities youll identify are key to Wise reaching future millions of customers and redefining how payments work internationally at scale
Ideal candidate would have:
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 ability to translate data into compelling narratives
Hustler-mentality. You can take work beyond the analysis and get things done.
Good 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
What do we offer:
Salary: 75,000 - 115,000
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
For everyone, everywhere. 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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