Senior Finance Business Partner
At a glance
Senior FP&A role at Wise. London · full-time · £90,000–£117,500 base.
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What you'll do
- Help senior leaders, including People and Workplace, make long-term plans using financial insight
- Run planning and improve forecasts for staffing levels and operating costs
- Build cost models and reports that reveal risks, opportunities and practical next steps
- Compare actual results with forecasts to explain gaps and improve decision-making
- Turn financial results into clear updates for department leads and the leadership team
What you bring
- You have partnered with department leads and earned their trust as a finance adviser
- You bring extensive experience building financial models and analysing costs
- You have forecast headcount and established spending controls, policies and procedures
- You hold a professional finance qualification or equivalent, with post-qualification experience and knowledge of IFRS and accounting
Who this fits
This senior finance partner role suits someone who can influence senior stakeholders, work across teams and turn complex data into clear recommendations. The role is based onsite in London, with travel when needed.
From the employer
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
As a financial technology company moving billions of GBP of customer money in over 70 countries, Wise must have bulletproof financials. We need timely, accurate, and scalable financial data to be compliant with regulations and make strategic business decisions to support our hyper-growth and financial objectives.
We’re on the hunt for a highly strategic Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A team in London. You’ll be part of the team that helps pilot the rocket ship.
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!
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 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.
Bonus points for:
Experience working in a fast-paced environment
Experience with AI to help drive process improvements
Experience working with Core Functions (People/HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, etc)
A working knowledge of Anaplan and Workday
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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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