Finance Manager

About the role

We are looking for a tech-forward, analytical, and autonomous Finance Manager to join our Regional Finance team in Austin. In this role, you will play a critical part in scaling our North American operations, with a specific focus on supporting a growing and dynamic set of new products, including Wise Assets. You will help us navigate the complex financial, operational, and regulatory architecture of introducing cutting-edge wealth and investment features to millions of customers. You will assist in growing our finance capabilities to steer the organization in the right direction, ensuring absolute compliance with local accounting, regulatory, and tax requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Regional Controllers, and Compliance teams to deliver compliant and highly accurate reporting with clear definitions and robust change management.
• Compile and own monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports for submission to North American regulatory authorities.
• Seamlessly support ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis requests.
• Act as a key finance stakeholder during regulatory examinations and external financial audits, working closely with Compliance and Regional Controllers to provide clean, verifiable financial data.
• Audit & Exam Management: Act as a key finance stakeholder during regulatory examinations and external financial audits, working closely with Compliance and Regional Controllers to provide clean, verifiable financial data.
• Financial Controls: Assist the Regional Finance team in performing day-to-day oversight of our North American legal entities, analyzing financial results, and ensuring necessary internal financial controls are strictly executed.
• Systems & Process Scalability: Collaborate with global finance engineering and product teams to ensure our financial systems, automated controls, and reporting processes are fully optimized for regional requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience: 4+ years of relevant experience in financial controlling, financial audit, financial reporting, or management accounting.
• Data Literacy: Proven experience working with massive, raw datasets and building data-driven financial reports for complex, transaction-heavy businesses.
• Stakeholder Management: Experience dealing with internal or external stakeholders on a regular basis, effectively communicating financial reports, data definitions, and requirements.
• Beyond Excel: You are comfortable moving beyond standard spreadsheets to query and analyze data directly (experience with SQL is a plus).
• Execution & Detail: Exceptional financial reporting and analytical skills. You are accurate, detail-oriented, obsessed with data integrity, and thrive on beating tight regulatory deadlines.
• Communication: Able to translate complex financial, tax, and regulatory issues into clear, succinct insights for both internal executive stakeholders and external regulators.
• Self-Starter Mindset: An organized professional who can independently structure their day, prioritize competing deliverables, and drive projects to completion.

Nice to have

• Nice to have experience working within a broker-dealer, regulated financial institution, or fintech company.
• Prior Big 4 accounting or consulting experience.
• An active CPA, CFA, or equivalent professional qualification.