# Senior Finance Business Partner **Company**: Wise **Location**: London **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000155988419-senior-finance-business-partner?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/senior-finance-business-partner-ae2ded3c-488/ ## Description 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. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - financial modelling - cost analysis - policy development - headcount forecasting - IFRS reporting - general accounting concepts - project management - data analysis - communication - strategic thinking ### Nice to have - Anaplan - Workday - AI - machine learning --- Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000155988419-senior-finance-business-partner?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)