Head of Third Party Management - London, United Kingdom - Wise

Wise

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a
Head of Third Party Management to join our
Third Party Management Team in
London.

This role is a unique opportunity to help deliver Wise's mission, continue the growth and evolution of the third party management team in a fast-paced listed company environment and help millions more people save money.

Your mission:

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the world's first platform to offer true multi-currency services.

The Third Party Management Team is responsible for helping Wise to onboard and manage its third-party relationship, and for the governance surrounding TPM process and adherence to regulations globally.

These range from banking partners, to cloud computing providers and verification agents. Third parties are critical to our success.

They help us on our Mission and service our customers, but they also pose potential risks if not properly managed.

Your mission is to
lead the third party management function within the Wise group
to help take the function, and the business, to the next level.

This includes working with stakeholders across various specialties, and globally to grow and implement Wise's third party management framework to help mitigate risks that such third parties might pose to the business.

About the role:

Ongoing
management and
review of the Third Party Management
governance into the business
for teams to effectively onboard, manage and offboard their third parties across the third party lifecycle.
Provide
updates to the Audit & Risk Committee and the leadership team on the status of the third party risk management framework and Wise's third party risk
Draft guidance for onboarding, monitoring and offboarding third parties.

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Ensure that Wisers are
periodically monitoring their third party relationships in accordance with the Third Party Risk Management framework.

Raise awareness across Wise about the role of the team and each Wiser's responsibilities.
Obtain feedback and provide training to key Wisers proactively and on request.
Ensure that teams are periodically reviewing their existing third party relationships and are monitoring SLAs.
Assist teams with regulatory audits that focus on how Wise manages its third party relationships.

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Build relationships with multiple business units across the Company and our UK and European markets to provide practical advice on a wide range of third party risk matters.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

Choose your path to impact:

- we believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than being told what to do, you'll take ownership from day one. Of course, you will have feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you'll experience unique levels of ownership and empowerment within your role.
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Shape a new team

As a principal member of the Third Party Risk Management team you will be instrumental in shaping its direction and helping it grow.

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Be part of our mission to move money without borders.

About you:

You have demonstrable
experience in leading, building, embedding and scaling third party risk management processes to effectively onboard, manage and offboard third parties.
You have a strong and demonstrable
understanding of third party regulations:
You have experience in
implementing third party risk management processes in the financial services sector would be highly beneficial.
You have a track record in
taking ownership of crossfunctional projects and clear communication, including being able to focus people behind a common goal, 'tell the story' and make the complex simple.
You can adapt your approach to working with a range of stakeholders with different needs
You have a
knowledge of how fast growth companies work how to balance between maturity in governance and processes, and the practical considerations of fast growth and scaling.
You have a
getitdone, collaborative approach to problem solving and an ability to seek creative, riskbased solutions for complex matters with mínimal oversight.
You are wellorganised and
able to manage and prioritise numerous projects simultaneously.
You have professionalism and
high integrity.

Hiring process:

Application review
Screening call with the recruiter
3 sets of interviews

We're people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you're passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you'll fit right in.

Also, where and what you studied isn't important to us.

If you've got great experience, the right skills for the role and you're great at articulating your thinking, we'd like to hear from you.