Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this role you will serve as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders, translating financial data into actionable insights. You will own planning and forecasting for designated areas, build scalable models and reporting, and evaluate investments and pricing through robust business cases. You will lead cross-functional workstreams and drive FP&A improvements to support Wise’s mission of lowering prices for customers while enabling sustainable growth. The role offers autonomy and opportunities to tackle varied problems across Finance and the broader business.

Responsibilities

• Act as a finance partner to senior stakeholders, interpreting performance drivers and trade-offs
• Own planning and forecasting for defined business areas and challenge underlying assumptions
• Develop scalable financial models and reporting using metrics and scenario planning
• Assess investments, pricing, growth and efficiency initiatives with ROI and payback analyses
• Lead cross-functional FP&A workstreams and improve FP&A processes and data quality
• Share best practices across Finance and influence wider decision-making

Key requirements

• Proven FP&A, commercial finance, strategic finance or finance business partnering experience
• Experience owning planning, forecasting, performance analysis or management reporting
• Hands-on in building structured financial models with large or imperfect datasets
• Ability to partner with senior non-finance stakeholders and convert analysis into recommendations
• Professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Strong analytical, structured approach to data and ability to simplify complexity
• Proactive, delivery-focused with ability to manage priorities across teams and time zones

• Analytical and structured thinking
• Clear and strategic communication
• Trust-building and influencing across stakeholders
• Anaplan
• Planful
• SQL

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