Finance Manager
Wise · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · 4 days ago
HybridFinanceFull-time
About the role
We are looking for a tech-forward, analytical, and autonomous Finance Manager to join our Regional Finance team in Austin!
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.