Senior Implementation Manager - Finance Systems

Your Mission

As a financial institution moving billions of GBP of customer money in more than 70 countries, Wise must have bulletproof financials. 

As Wise expands globally, creating new products for our customers, and starting more lines of businesses, it introduces significant complexities to recording our financials. Some of these complexities are solved by creating new systems/tools or integrating with third party systems into our existing finance systems. 

This role offers the unique opportunity which requires both technical and finance chops and will support Wise in being financially compliant while ensuring our bigger team can make timely, accurate and sustainable business decisions based on a global set of financials. This is a new team being set up and you will have the opportunity to assess and define the ways of working.

How you’ll contribute to our Mission

• Our Finance Implementation team ensures that anything happening in Wise that has a financial impact is integrated into our financial systems and is properly recorded and controlled. This requires working closely with our finance, product and engineering teams on understanding how things work in Wise and how they translate into compliant financials 

• You’ll be responsible for understanding the whys and hows of the Wise and Finance integration and communicate across all finance stakeholders and financial concepts to engineers

• You will figure out a plan and work with a team of implementation managers, engineers, analysts and operations specialists to ensure all 

• You will support the team with clear documentation including requirements, detailed project plans, resource allocation, testing, delivery etc.

• You will work with our internal finance teams, such as Accounting, Tax, Reporting and Financial Planning & Analysis to ensure clean, accurate and compliant financials in all our entities worldwide in a timely manner

This role will give you the opportunity to

• Choose your path to impact – we believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls

• Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our internal product finance systems while working with a group of amazing and dedicated implementation managers, engineers, analysts, and operations. 

• Work in a world-class international Finance Team, learn a lot about fintech and finance and drive financial sustainability of Wise, while also building a high-volume, real time financial implementation system

• Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal

A bit about you

• You’re hands on. You’d do everything needed to make the team and the product successful. You get it done.

• You have experience evaluating and integrating external third-party systems with internal systems.

• You have experience of managing end-to-end system integration lifecycles from scoping to delivery and post production support for ambitious, impactful customer / non-customer facing products before in data-driven environments.

• You are well-versed with basic concepts of finance and accounting. This role requires you to work very closely with Finance and accounting teams, so you should have a good working knowledge so that you can communicate with a shared vocabulary.

• You create energy and clarity. You have great communication skills that help you bring people together behind a common goal, manage multiple points of view and create clarity and organisation into complex problems and diverse teams.

Our Offer

• Base salary:  60600 - 77400 EUR gross annually (based on experience & interview outcomes)

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs): https://www.wise.jobs/2020/07/07/benefits-in-our-london-office/

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.

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