Company Description
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.
Job Description
As a financial technology service/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 accurate business decisions to support our growth and financial objectives.
We’re hiring for a FP&A Analyst to help us better understand business performance, manage and scale costs effectively, and drive efficiencies in our BAU processes.
Your mission:
- Owning and driving improvement in core operational processes - monthly reporting and forecasting.
- Producing analysis and insights for a range of stakeholders.
- Driving variance analysis against forecasts to ensure accuracy and identify cost drivers
- Reviewing operational metrics to assess team contribution to costs and uncover underlying drivers
- Supporting headcount planning by reviewing hiring assumptions
- Supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner on strategic projects across the Servicing team.
- Work with the other analysts in the team to support cross-team initiatives
- Business partnering with team leads and vendor management.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
- Understand the performance of our Servicing department, dive into cost drivers and help improve growth and margins through better insights
- Use data to shape Wise’s financial strategy, manage growth sustainably and optimise investment and cost management
- Partner with department leads to help them understand their performance, cost base and support better decision-making
- Own your path to success with high levels of autonomy and responsibility
- Learn and grow in a fast-paced environment with plenty to do and improve
- Produce insightful reporting, track actuals and highlight risks or opportunities vs forecasts
- Help coordinate monthly and annual forecasts that directly impact the prices we charge customers
- Identify opportunities to streamline, automate and scale reporting and operational processes
Qualifications
- Detail oriented, great at working autonomously and meeting deadlines
- Have a strong analytical thought process
- Have an ability to go beyond the numbers and understand the bigger picture
- You have excellent communication skills and are able to influence others
- You know how to collaborate effectively within a team and how to manage stakeholder expectations
- You have a professional finance qualification such as the ACA / ACCA / CIMA, or part-qualified and on-track to qualifying.
