Safeguarding Controller - APAC
Core
Ensure APAC safeguarding control framework runs smoothly for payments, e-money, and investment businesses, ensuring new product launches are compliant and coordinating first-line defense assurance.
Role type
Senior Safeguarding Controller (Payments/Investments)
Builds
Compliant product launches and robust internal control environments for Wise's APAC entities.
Domain
Fintech / Regulatory Compliance (Payments & Investments)
Required skills
Payments Services Act (PSA) knowledge, Securities and Futures Act (SFA) knowledge, regulatory reporting, audit coordination, risk matrix management, incident management, policy documentation, stakeholder communication, change management.
Preferred skills
MAS regulatory expertise, internal risk management software proficiency, cross-functional collaboration, travel readiness.
Technologies
Internal risk management software
Responsibilities
Ensure new product launches are compliant with safeguarding regulations; coordinate attestations of controls operation; maintain APAC safeguarding risk and controls matrix; act as escalation point for reconciliation discrepancies; manage incidents and link to control failures; prepare MAS and other regulatory reports; coordinate annual safeguarding audits; document and challenge the end-to-end internal control environment.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC