Senior Engineering Lead Group Finance Systems

About the role:

Youll join the Finance Tribe at a pivotal stage of Wises growth. Weve recently moved our primary listing from the LSE to Nasdaq and as we scale globally were investing significantly in the technical foundations of our finance systems with SOX readiness as one of the critical drivers. Beyond audit and compliance we see this as a chance to redefine what finance tooling looks like in the AI era. 

Youll lead the engineering team behind Wises Finance Systems estate the platforms our Group Finance org runs the company financial operations on. This is a transformation roleover the next 23 years youll partner with the Product and CFO org to modernise our ERP and surrounding finance tooling stand up the engineering foundations for SOX as a newly US-listed company and shape what AI-native finance operations look like at Wise.

What youll be owning:

• Technical strategy for Finance Systems. Set the architecture and multi-year roadmap for our ERP and surrounding finance platforms.
• The team. Lead hire and grow a senior engineering team. Set the bar for engineering quality in a domain where correctness auditability and resilience is non-negotiable.
• SOX engineering foundations. Build the tooling controls and change-management practices that make SOX compliance a property of how we Engineer.
• Operational maturity. Drive deployment frequency observability incident response and change control to a standard appropriate for systems the CFO signs off on.
• Co-own the roadmap with Finance and Product. Translate Group Finances priorities (e.g. close acceleration intercompany AP/AR statutory reporting others) into a credible engineering plan. 
• Automation and AI. Drive efficiencies through AI-assisted finance operational tooling by deciding where automation pays off where it doesnt and helping us make the right tooling choice & integrations.

Qualifications :

What do you need:

• 12 years in software engineering including 5 years leading engineering teams in finance fintech or other regulated/audited domains.
• Deep experience with Tier 1 ERPs (SAP Oracle Microsoft Dynamics Workday Financials or NetSuite at enterprise scale) including at least one migration consolidation or major modernisation programme you led the engineering side of.                        
• SOX or equivalent control-environment experience. Youve built not just complied with engineering practices that hold up to external audit.
• Architectural range. Comfortable across vendor configuration custom extensions integration middleware and event-driven patterns. You know when to buy when to build and when to wrap.
• Stakeholder fluency at the CFO level. You can partner transparently with Finance Business Process leads explain complex trade-offs and successfully achieve organisational alignment.
• A pragmatic transformation instinct. You ship in increments but you dont lose sight of the destination.
   

Nice to have

• First-hand experience taking a company through SOX readiness post-listing. 
• Fintech payments or banking background.
• Public POV on AI in the finance back-office what works whats hype.

Additional Information :

Interested Find out more:

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  • Starting salary: 135K - 175K GBP RSUs

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  Employment Type :

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