Your mission

You’ll ensure that the finance impacts of Wise’s product expansion are considered, built/recorded, controlled, reported and explained in an efficient, timely and accurate way.

How you’ll contribute to our Finance Product Team

• You’ll build an understanding of how new and existing products translate into compliant financials & manage the finance systems implementations for new regions, currencies, licences, products etc. This involves working with product managers, engineers, analysts and other finance stakeholders
• You’ll share knowledge on finance product and collaborate with product teams to reduce current risks and gaps impacting finance
• In collaboration with the finance engineering and product team, you’ll build your team’s strategy & roadmap to deliver a high data volume, scalable, real time financial product (system/pipeline) empowering impactful global business decisions across teams
• You’ll lead retros on large product expansions or failures and ensure learnings are used to improve future expansions
• You’ll own and track the quarterly plans and prioritizations for the team, set team KPIs, facilitate and build efficient processes for the team to cover all areas of onboarding - building, assuring, explaining and reporting
• You’ll be responsible for hiring, developing, and supporting our finance product team of 5 finance & product managers and analysts
• You’ll bring external ideas, best practices through leadership into your work and future plans

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
• Grow as a product leader – Grow and inspire your team to join our mission
• Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our internal product finance systems while working with a group of amazing and dedicated product managers, engineers, analysts, and operations. 
• Work with a modern microservices system with key parts written in-house, which allows to move fast and build controls and experiences that are above industry standards and push the boundaries of what is possible
• Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal

Things that might describe you as a product leader

• You’re hands on when it comes to product implementation and delivering features and building roadmaps. You’d do everything needed to make the team and the product successful. You get it done
• You have experience in finance systems and familiarity with the core  principles of finance
• You are a seasoned Product Manager with experience managing end-to-end product development lifecycles from scoping to delivery and post production support. You have delivered ambitious, impactful customer / non-customer facing products before in data-driven environments
• Leadership experience. You have proven experience leading and empowering cross-functional, medium-large diverse teams of Product Managers with a long term vision and strategy for non-customer facing teams. You building roadmaps
• Data-driven. You have dealt with data rich environments and you can pick up the signal from the noise. You are comfortable to dig deep into data, explore and make decisions based on insights. You can communicate big data / complex data sets clearly.
• You are equally willing to work on technical architecture, finance & reporting requirements, audit obligations and are able to shape and influence thinking on these point
• You’ve applied agile software development methodologies and tools before

Beneficial (but not mandatory) experience

• Finance / accounting background
• Hands-on SQL skills
• Passion for technical products and understanding of tech stacks used in software engineering

Our Offer

• Base salary: £110k - £140k gross / year base (based on experience & interview outcomes)
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs):https://www.wise.jobs/2021/03/26/the-true-value-of-stock-in-a-high-growth-company-like-wise/
• Numerous amount of other benefits:https://www.wise.jobs/2020/07/07/benefits-in-our-london-office/

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