Technology Risk Manager

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s 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.

Job Description

As a Technology Risk Manager at Wise, you will be a key pillar within the Group Technology Risk team. You will drive the monitoring and oversight of our technology risks and controls across our most critical domains, including platform engineering, information security, and data. Additionally, You will execute projects to manage, maintain and enhance our risk management processes and drive continuous improvement. On a day to day basis, you will collaborate and work closely with the wider engineering organisation at Wise.

You’ll contribute to the mission by:

Collaborating & partnering with various technology, business and risk stakeholders to make risk simple, measurable and visible to help Wise make faster, bolder decisions critical for our mission without compromising safety, customer experience and scalability.

This is an exciting opportunity if you have technology risk management, IT audit and/or information security experience and are looking to have an impact with your work. The role will report to and be supported by the Senior Technology Risk Manager and be based in London.

What you’ll be doing:

• Facilitate and execute risk assessment activities for technology risks covering platform, information security, engineering & data domains

• Partner with 1LoD functions to support them with managing risks, issues and improving the control environment. This includes providing hands-on support and working with engineers

• Maintain and update our technology risk taxonomy

• Support with regular technology risk reporting & analysis to risk committees

• Support the continual enhancement of Key Risk Indicators

• Drive and execute risk oversight & monitoring activities for technology risks

• Own the delivery of technology risk initiatives end-to-end, including stakeholder management

• Continuously evaluate and improve our technology risk operational processes and reporting frameworks, ensuring they remain efficient, scalable, and fit for purpose

• Actively manage, maintain and monitor technology risk data in Wise’s GRC tool

• Participate in and support ongoing compliance initiatives such as Operational Resilience etc

• Collaborate with the wider risk team to implement new and improve existing group wide processes

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years’ experience as a technology risk and/or audit professional, preferably in financial services

• Experience executing or facilitating audits or engagements based on global best practice frameworks such as CobiT, ITIL, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001/22301, CIS, NIST CSF, etc

• Experience in cyber security and/or business continuity/resilience audits or implementation projects

• Hands-on experience executing control identification/testing, technical audits, and risk assessment initiatives over services hosted on public cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop effective, trustworthy relationships with platform, security, and business stakeholders

• A pragmatic approach to risk management, with the ability to balance robust control requirements with the need for business agility, speed, and scalability

• A proactive, self-starter mindset with a proven ability to take ownership of tasks, work independently, and drive initiatives forward in a fast-paced environment

Additional Information

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.

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