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About the Role

Wise is hiring a Senior Finance Manager to scale the finance function, supporting product growth, customer expansion, and regulatory compliance. This role involves building accounting, controls, and reporting foundations while enhancing planning, forecasting, and decision support for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrity of the general ledger, ensuring accurate transactions in line with company policy and US GAAP.
• Lead month-end and year-end close activities, including reconciliations, journal entry review, and balance sheet substantiation.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and support accounting positions/memos for complex areas.
• Design, operate, and improve key financial controls with strong evidence standards and repeatable processes.
• Develop a firm understanding of internal controls, inter-company transactions, capital requirements, funding, and transfer pricing agreements.
• Serve as the primary accounting/process contact for regulators, external auditors, and internal audit.
• Lead initial setup and ongoing quarterly/periodic regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy and integrity.
• Build and maintain a regulatory reporting “playbook” and evidence repository.
• Coordinate responses to information requests and manage stakeholders for timely, high-quality delivery.
• Lead the annual statutory audit for the entity, including planning, PBC coordination, and stakeholder communication.
• Prepare and review statutory financial statements and supporting schedules.
• Partner with Tax, Group Accounting, and external advisors to resolve technical accounting and disclosure matters.
• Drive timely resolution of audit findings, management letter points, and control recommendations.
• Support budgeting and rolling forecasting in Anaplan and Planful, including assumption management and scenario analysis.
• Connect operational drivers to financial outcomes with Product, Banking, Ops, and Compliance teams.
• Improve KPI definitions, reporting cadence, and decision-useful insight.
• Ensure systems, processes, and controls are ready for new products, regulatory requirements, and entity/geography expansion.
• Drive process improvements and automation using practical tooling.
• Start as a senior individual contributor with an expectation to build out a team and/or manage external providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 7+ years in accounting/controllership, ideally in banking, fintech, payments, or other regulated environments.
• Experience setting up and producing regulatory reporting for federal or state regulators and working directly with regulators/auditors.
• Experience managing annual statutory audits, including coordinating external auditors and preparing financial statement support.
• Proven ownership of close processes, reconciliations, and financial reporting quality.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and mature financial controls.
• Strong analytical and communication skills—able to translate complex finance topics to non-finance audiences and create crisp leadership narratives.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, building scalable processes, and driving cross-functional alignment.
• Strong working proficiency with Excel.

Skills

• US GAAP
• IFRS
• Financial Controls
• Excel
• Anaplan
• Planful

Location

• US

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• CPA

Salary/Compensations

• USD 135000 - USD 185000

About the Company

• Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
• Wise is on a mission to make people's and businesses' lives easier and save them money when sending money internationally, spending abroad, or making/receiving international payments.
• As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.