Finance Manager - Risk and Controls

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join our Finance Risk and Controls team in London. You will help strengthen our internal control environment and deliver against US SOX requirements. You will also lead the controls work on some of our most important finance transformation projects.

Responsibilities:

• Create and advise on end-to-end process and control documentation
• Lead and support the implementation of new and improved processes and controls across Finance
• Own the accountability framework to support Financial Statement attestation
• Be the point of contact for control testing
• Support SOX readiness and remediation
• Manage the Finance Risk and Controls Self Assessment
• Report to senior leadership
• Partner with stakeholders across the business

What you'll get from the role:

• Real impact: You will shape how Wise implements SOX controls and remediates Material Weaknesses, and see the results
• Visibility: You will regularly work with and present to senior leaders, including the Finance LT
• Autonomy and ownership: You will have a high level of responsibility and the freedom to decide how best to deliver
• Breadth of learning: You will gain in-depth knowledge of Wise's business by working with teams across Finance and the wider company
• Room to grow: You will build your leadership skills by driving remediation with stakeholders across the business, in a fast-growing, global FinTech

About you:

• You have a professional accounting qualification, such as US CPA, ACA, ACCA or an international equivalent
• You have 8–10 years of experience in a similar role, in industry or at a Big 4 firm
• You have a deep understanding of SOX controls and regulations, including financial statement assertions, key controls, and design and operating effectiveness
• You have thorough process knowledge across areas such as Procurement, Revenue and HR
• You have experience testing internal controls and evaluating deficiencies

Skills and approach:

• You communicate excellently, including with executive leadership
• You work well with minimal direction in a fast-moving, less structured environment
• You are pragmatic and commercially minded
• You influence without relying on formal authority, and you stay calm when handling disagreement or resistance
• You take ownership and see remediation through to completion
• You work well in international, cross-functional teams