Finance Business Partner - Marketing

Job Description

Due to the continued and rapid growth of Wise, we are looking for an experienced Finance professional to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team in London. You will be a key part of the team that helps guide our fast-growing business.

In this role, you will collaborate with our Finance Business Partnering team to support Marketing teams with budget management and performance optimisation. You will use data to build a clear story around our results, manage communications, and report to various stakeholders to ensure our growth remains sustainable.

Here’s how you’ll contribute to Wise’s mission:

• Lead the Marketing re-forecasting processes, building accurate projections for growth metrics and operating costs.

• Improve existing financial models and reports to broaden and deepen actionable insights, helping Marketing make informed investment decisions.

• Review key marketing metrics, such as ROI and CPA, to identify trends, opportunities, and risks.

• Provide deep dives on key business and financial metrics, focusing on actuals-to-forecast variance comparisons to drive accuracy, clear decision making, and strategy development.

• Partner with Department leads to help them understand their performance and cost base, acting as a trusted advisor to assist them with critical decision making.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Choose your path to impact:
  We believe people are most empowered when they have autonomy. You will have a high level of responsibility and the freedom to shape financial strategy to optimize growth investment and cost management.

• Play a crucial role:
  Use data to directly influence how Wise grows sustainably, working alongside collaborative, curious people who value your insights.

• Learn and grow:
  There is a lot to be done! In our expanding business, you will have regular opportunities to broaden your expertise and develop your career.

• Be flexible in how you work:
  We understand everyone needs different setups to thrive, so we do our best to support flexible working arrangements, including opportunities to collaborate across multiple offices and time zones.

Your experience and skills:

• Proven financial experience directly supporting a marketing function and partnering closely with department leads and senior stakeholders.

• Strong foundational knowledge of Marketing Investment principles, with a track record of evaluating efficiency and effectiveness to drive business growth.

• Experience building financial models and owning end to end cost analysis.

• Experience implementing cost controls and monitoring ongoing spend to help an organisation operate smoothly.

• Analytical and technical proficiency, with comfort navigating Business Intelligence (BI) tools and extracting data via SQL for reporting and analysis.

• Strong communication and project management skills, with the ability to simplify complex data, articulate a clear narrative, and align a diverse stakeholder group.

• Ability to work in an agile environment, balancing high-level strategy with a hands-on approach to day to day tasks.

• Resilience and professional adaptability, comfortable navigating ambiguous situations while remaining organised to meet defined timelines.

Bonus points for:

• Working knowledge of Anaplan, Workday, or Looker.

Salary band: 50K - 68K