Senior Finance Business Partner

As a financial technology company moving billions of GBP of customer money in over 70 countries, Wise must have bulletproof financials.

We’re on the hunt for a highly strategic Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A team in London.

Your mission:

• You will be a strategic partner to senior stakeholders across the business, including People and Workplace, helping them form long-term plans, and proactively identify insights to support decision making.
• You will be driving our planning process and improving our ability to forecast headcount and operating costs, enabling the business to continue growing sustainably and lowering prices for customers.
• You will build frameworks (models and reports) to analyse Wise’s cost base, identify risks and opportunities and derive actionable insights.
• You’ll provide deep dives on key business and financial metrics and focus on actuals to forecast variance comparison to drive accuracy, optimal decision making and develop strategy.
• You’ll use this deep knowledge to help build a narrative on our results and manage communications and reporting to various stakeholders including Department leads and our leadership team.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Play a crucial role in using data to help manage Wise’s financial growth sustainably and shape financial strategy to optimise growth investment and cost management.
• Partner with Department leads to help them understand their performance, cost base and assist them with decision making.
• Own your own path to success. You’ll have a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Learn and grow, there’s a lot to be done!

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in partnering with stakeholders including Department leads and becoming their trusted advisors.
• Extensive experience in building financial models (ideally through a planning tool such as Anaplan) and owning cost analysis.
• Extensive experience in establishing effective policies and procedures, implementing cost controls and monitoring ongoing spend to help the organisation operate smoothly and grow sustainably.
• Experience in forecasting headcount.
• You have a professional finance qualification such as the ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent (MBA or masters in Finance) with proven post qualification experience and demonstrable knowledge of IFRS reporting and general accounting concepts.

Skills:

• Passionate about what we’re building at Wise.
• Strong project management skills and ability to cut through complexity.
• Love digging in data, numbers, thinking systematically, and analysing inter-dependencies.
• Strong communicator: articulate, clear, strategic with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Keen to roll up sleeves and get the job done, we all do our own Excel still.
• Humble, comfortable operating with a level of uncertainty, keen to learn. Firm and forceful when required.
• Able to operate to defined timelines while bringing together a diverse stakeholder group.
• Able to work across multiple teams, offices, time-zones (and travel when needed!) with flexibility and a can do attitude.