Job Description

We’re looking for FinCrime Quality Specialists to join our growing Sanctions and AML teams.

The main purpose of the Quality Specialist role is to improve customer experience and ensure compliance with business and legal expectations. This involves maintaining high and consistent quality among agents, vendors, and products, as well as identifying improvement opportunities related to customer, business, and compliance critical quality parameters. The role promotes a quality culture, setting standards, and providing feedback on what great servicing looks like. Your mission is to help implement and enforce our quality management strategy and framework. As a Quality Specialist, you’ll report directly to the Quality Team Lead and promote quality culture in your region, while cooperating with our operational teams, as well as the various support functions like Training, Knowledge Management (KM), Continuous Improvement (CI) and more.

Activities performed on the job including the following:

Evaluates and monitors operational agents' performance in terms of quality

• Conduct regular quality checks on agents, vendors, and products.
• Listen to call recordings, read emails, and monitor performance using QA evaluation forms.
• Conduct quality assessments with constructive feedback to help improve quality performance.

Liaison and Feedback

• Partner with Operational Managers and other stakeholders to discuss agent QA performance.
• Provide feedback on sensitive cases and escalate cases requiring immediate attention.
• Participate in scheduled meetings with Operations for insights sharing.

Process Improvement and Compliance

• Stay updated on changes affecting Service Quality.
• Suggest and occasionally assist in process improvements to enhance customer experience.
• Provide feedback and identify root causes of errors to enhance processes, tooling, or product and report findings to relevant teams.
• Provide feedback / suggestions to SE (Service Experience) teams regarding procedures that can benefit our customers.

Peer Assist

• Assist in onboarding new joiners and support specialists needing extra support.

Interdepartmental Calibration

• Actively engage in calibration sessions, applying action items derived from the results.
• Ensure alignment with standards and provide valuable inputs in the meetings to enhance team performance.

Maintain operational knowledge and Quality knowledge

• Knowledge of Wise processes and procedures, including but not limited to tooling, communication procedures, compliance and privacy procedures.
• Actively participate in case handling and operational activities according to the effective expectations to maintain up-to-date product and process knowledge.
• Complete required internal and external Quality Assurance related trainings.
• Monitor changes through internal channels, readings, trainings, and implement the learnings effectively.

Qualifications

• You’re experienced — with at least 1 year in a FinCrime or Quality Assurance role.
• You’re knowledgeable — good depth of knowledge in AML, CTF guidelines, and procedures. Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the FinCEN regulations.
• You proactively solve problems — identifying and addressing issues to implement improvements that benefit customers and the team.
• You’re customer-centric — always prioritising customer satisfaction and advocating for their needs within the organisation.
• You embrace adaptability — readily accepting change and quickly integrating new processes while maintaining quality.
• You’re a team player — sharing knowledge and resources to ensure team success and actively engaging in discussions.
• You’re a strong communicator — tailoring your communication to suit diverse audiences with clarity and respect.
• You make data-driven decisions — leveraging data to inform your actions and enhance your impact.
• You take ownership — fully committing to your tasks and consistently striving to meet or exceed KPIs.

Additional Information

• This is a hybrid position located in Austin, Texas and not fully remote. You must be able to commute to the office or open to relocation
• You must already be legally authorized to work in the US, we cannot sponsor Visas for this position
• Starting salary for this role is $70,500 USD annually + benefits + stocks
• Click here to learn more about the benefits that we offer at Wise

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