Senior Finance Manager

Hackajob is collaborating with Wise to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

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.

Wise is hiring a Senior Finance Manager to help scale the finance function as we grow products, customers, and our regulatory footprint. This includes geographic expansions as well as major initiatives to gain direct access to local payment rails in the US and Canada.

The individual will sit at the intersection of controllership and business performance—building strong accounting, controls, and regulatory reporting foundations while also strengthening planning, forecasting, and decision support for leadership.

Reporting to:
Regional CFO

Key partners:
Regional Finance team, Group Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Compliance/Risk, Product, Banking/Ops, Data/Analytics.

• Own the integrity of the general ledger, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and in line with company policy and US GAAP (IFRS knowledge a plus).
• Lead month-end and year-end close activities, including reconciliations, journal entry review, balance sheet substantiation, and close governance (calendar, checklists, review/sign-off standards).
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and support clear accounting positions/memos for complex or judgmental areas.
• Design, operate, and continuously improve key financial controls with strong evidence standards and repeatable processes; lead remediation for any control/audit findings.
• 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: planning, data collection, validation, preparation, and submission with a high bar for accuracy and integrity.
• Build and maintain a regulatory reporting “playbook” and evidence repository to reduce rework and improve consistency as the business scales.
• Coordinate responses to information requests and manage stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality delivery. (Direct federal regulator reporting such as FFIEC call report experience is a plus).

• Lead the annual statutory audit for the entity, including audit planning, PBC coordination, timeline management, and stakeholder communication.
• Prepare and review statutory financial statements and supporting schedules; ensure consistency with underlying books and agreed accounting policies.
• 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.

• Work with global FP&A and analytical teams to support budgeting and rolling forecasting in Anaplan and Planful, including assumption management, scenario analysis, and risks/opportunities tracking.
• Partner with Product, Banking, Ops, and Compliance to connect operational drivers to financial outcomes (unit economics, cost-to-serve, efficiency metrics, and investment trade-offs).
• Improve KPI definitions, reporting cadence, and decision-useful insight (not just reporting).

• Partner with regional and global teams to ensure systems, processes, and controls are ready for new products, regulatory requirements, and entity/geography expansion.
• Drive process improvements and automation using practical tooling (advanced Excel, planning tools, improved templates/workflows).
• Start as a senior individual contributor with an expectation to build out a…