Finance Business Partner - Cost of Sales

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.

Due to the continued and rapid growth of Wise, we’re on the hunt for an experienced Finance professional to join our FP&A team in London. You’ll be part of the team that helps pilot the rocket ship.

 

Your mission:

• Become the dedicated financial partner for direct costs of Wise’s products, helping a diverse set of stakeholders to better understand the cost economics of our products.

• Own the cost allocation logic and ensure accurate implementation by the data analysts.

• Contribute to the preparation of monthly/quarterly reports providing insights into cost economics trends for a range of stakeholders.

• Support cost owners across a wide variety of teams in scaling their costs and have a direct impact on our mission to lower fees for our customers. 

• Drive the financial forecasting process for direct costs by working closely with the data analysts running the forecasting model.

• Work closely with Product teams to validate forecasting inputs, ensuring that models are grounded in the latest customer and product data.

• Conduct regular actuals to forecast variance analysis and continuously enhance the accuracy and reliability of Cost of Sales forecasts.

• Act as the bridge between Finance, Analytics, Product, Treasury, and Banking teams to ensure consistent communication and alignment.

• Ensure accurate data reconciliation between Finance and Product cost datasets on a monthly basis.

• Use your deep knowledge of direct costs to support the Pricing team in their reprice process and drive lower and fair prices for our customers.

 

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Have a significant impact on the understanding and managing of direct costs of Wise’s products.

• Work with a talented, diverse team and be the go-to person of your area for any stakeholder in Wise.

• 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:

• Extensive experience in partnering with stakeholders and managing direct costs in the Payments industry.

• Experience in overseeing cost economics and forecasting cycles, and ensuring costs are accurately tracked and effectively controlled.

• Proven analytical experience in working with large datasets and diving deep into data.

• Experience in working collaboratively with data analysts and drive data-driven financial insights

 

Skills:

• Passionate about what we’re building at Wise.

• 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 operational work still.

• Open minded to take the best out of any practices and apply it to Wise Ways of Working.

• Proactive in identifying inefficiencies and can come up with a clear plan to improve processes.

• Humble, comfortable operating with a level of uncertainty, keen to learn. Firm and forceful when required.

• Able to work across multiple teams, offices, time-zones (and travel when needed!) with flexibility and a can do attitude.

 

Nice to have:

• 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.

• Experience using visualisation tools such as Superset, Looker, or other similar tools.

• SQL for extracting data for reporting & analysis.

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.

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