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Quality Assurance Team Lead
About this role
Join Wise’s Quality Assurance team and help us build world-class, scalable operations that keep customers safe and deliver great experiences. In this role, you’ll provide independent, expert assurance over how work is done—spotting risk, identifying control gaps, and turning insights into clear, practical improvements. You’ll balance attention to detail with strong judgement, using data and tools to form well-reasoned conclusions that stand up to scrutiny.
You’ll work closely with partners across the business, sharing themes and trends, contributing to consistent decision-making, and helping raise the bar on quality—while keeping pace in a fast-moving environment aligned to our mission of Money Without Borders. We are looking for candidates with extensive experience in AML Investigation, SAR Reporting, Fraud, Sanctions or KYC (EDD/CDD). Key Responsibilities: Leadership: Lead by example and drive a customer focused and proactive risk & compliance management mindset across your team and the wider organisation.
Promote a culture of ownership and accountability. Build high-performing teams that value knowledge sharing and continuous learning. People management: Coach and develop a strong and competent QA team. Conduct regular one on one coaching sessions and performance reviews. Deliver initiatives to help your team to grow their skills, behaviours, and competencies. Design and manage plans to support development. Conduct regular check-ins and make robust recommendations to support Wise performance management activities.
Operational management: Be accountable for your area of operations. Identify, propose and drive opportunities for improvements. Collaborate with central functions and other teams as needed to increase automation and operational efficiency. Monitor team resource allocation and refine standard operating procedures to scale and deliver quality QA that stakeholders can trust and rely on. Take a proactive approach to consistently achieving individual and team targets (KPIs, SLAs), demonstrating a strong commitment to both quality and speed.
Meet deadlines, optimise processing times and take full ownership and accountability to deliver results. Ensure effective communication and escalation of blockers impacting delivery of the QA outcomes supported with actions that are being taken or required. Performance management: Be fully responsible for performance of your area of operations. Drive the initiatives, KPIs and OKRs of your area in line with the organisation’s strategic vision.