UK remote
Business Operations Senior Manager
About this role
To take our mission to the next level, we are constantly applying for new licences and creating regulated subsidiary entities designed to serve international lives seamlessly. While our underlying operations and technology are delivered centrally via Wise Group, our regulated entities retain full entity-level responsibility and regulatory accountability for customer outcomes, operational resilience, and service quality.
We are establishing a dedicated COO function built on the principle of "Oversight, not execution," ensuring that we can safely scale and service our customers while meeting regulatory expectations. We are looking for a Business Operations Senior Manager to join a newly formed entity COO team. This is a critical, high-profile role responsible for supporting the establishment of our entity-level operational governance, operational resilience frameworks, and intra-group service oversight.
You will not be running daily execution or managing traditional hands-on delivery teams. Instead, your mission is to treat Wise Group as a material service provider, independently validating performance and data, and providing the structured, repeatable evidence that senior managers, our Board, and regulators require. Your Mission: Intra-Group & Outsourcing Oversight: Implement and operationalise our intra-group outsourcing framework.
Actively monitor, validate, and challenge the service levels (SLAs), KPIs, and customer outcomes delivered by Group functions (such as Customer Support, KYC, Financial Crime, and Payment Operations). Operational Resilience Framework: Support the design, mapping, and ongoing testing of Important Business Services (IBS) and impact tolerances, ensuring our regulated subsidiary meets regulatory expectations for end-to-end resilience.
Incident Governance: Maintain a real-time, entity-level view of current major incidents and changes. Oversee severity classifications, look after customer impacts, and ensure the root causes are addressed via robust remediation tracking with Group providers. Regulatory & Board Readiness: Fulfill essential regulatory and governance requirements. Help draft clear, consistent, and audit-ready management information (MI), dashboard analytics, and evidence packs to support Board committees and senior executives.