Senior Finance Business Partner Core Functions

Due to continued and rapid growth were on the hunt for an experienced Finance professional to join our FP&A team in London to support our Core Functions business units.

Your mission:

• You will be a strategic partner to senior stakeholders across the business 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 Wises cost base identify risks and opportunities and derive actionable insights

• Youll 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

• Youll 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 Wises 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 youll have a high level of autonomy and responsibility.

• Learn and grow theres a lot to be done!

A bit about you:

• 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 were 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.

Bonus points for:

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment

• Experience with AI to help drive process improvements

• Experience working with Core Functions (Finance Legal Compliance etc)

• A working knowledge of Anaplan and Workday

Additional Information :

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were 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.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time