Finance Transformation Programme Lead in London

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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.

The Finance team is critical in supporting the Wise mission of Money without Borders. We are working on numerous projects to transform the finance tribe to enable us to better manage risk, scale our operations and enable growth. This is a unique opportunity to be a key contributor to building the future of finance and Wise.

This role will partner across the entire Finance function to drive the successful delivery of all of our projects and programmes, as well as to embed and continuously improve project delivery within the function. You will be responsible for orchestrating and driving the various finance workstreams (including those related to US listing) as well as being involved in this complex and critical undertaking, ensuring timely and successful completion. This role would suit someone highly collaborative who is experienced in programme management and comfortable with working at pace to build something new.

• Lead high-impact Finance transformation programmes - You will manage and coordinate complex transformation initiatives across Group Finance, ensuring alignment with our strategic priorities including US listing, system integration, reporting modernisation, and controls uplift. Working with finance process owners, senior leadership, and technical partners, you’ll define scope, success criteria and delivery paths, and ensure we execute with discipline and pace.
• Build cross-Finance alignment and drive change that sticks - You’ll partner closely with Accounting, Reporting, FP&A, Tax, Risk & Controls, Product, Analytics and Engineering to ensure key initiatives move forward cohesively. You’ll facilitate workshops, manage stakeholder expectations, drive communication and training, and ensure business adoption and sustainability — not just delivery of technology.
• US Stock Exchange Listing - Finance Change work streams project manager - Crucial leader within the US listing transaction integration team, taking ownership for the management of several high-stakes financial workstreams. You will be working with the workstream owners to ensure effective delivery and management of the workstreams. Adding value via activities such as identifying cross finance dependencies, providing a critical review and challenge, identifying gaps etc.
• Shape our programme governance and prioritisation routines - You’ll embed and continuously improve the governance frameworks that enable Finance to make informed prioritisation decisions, sequence major initiatives, and manage dependencies across teams and systems. You’ll support steering committees, provide structured progress updates, escalate decisions when needed, and ensure transparency throughout the change lifecycle.
• Drive improvements in Finance processes, systems and ways of working - You’ll collaborate with Finance leaders and Product teams to identify opportunities to standardise, automate, simplify and strengthen processes across the Finance value chain. You’ll ensure business requirements are met and compliance standards are upheld.

• You are a seasoned Programme Manager - able to establish credibility quickly and tailor your programme governance structures and controls to your environment. You will have a recognised programme or portfolio management qualification and likely a project management qualification too. You might also have a change management qualification and experience of managing programmes of work on Monday.com.
• You are an excellent communicator and highly collaborative - you are excellent at building relationships quickly and working across teams and functions; able to bring people together to achieve a common goal. You’re also an excellent communicator who is able to influence across matrix structures to get things done.
• You have a passion for working in a Finance team - you understand that Finance at Wise isn’t just about numbers, but about enabling our mission of money without borders. You’ve worked in Finance teams within high-growth, regulated environments and are driven by the complexity of supporting a global financial services platform.
• You understand good change management and communication are key to successful programme delivery - you’re great at guiding the business through the cumulative change your programme of projects brings; and amazing at communicating effectively and thoughtfully varying your style based on the circumstance.
• You think ‘globally’ - you’re experienced supporting leaders and employees split across geographies and timezones. You understand that ‘thinking globally’ is not just jargon, it’s key to the successful delivery of a global programme of work.
• You’re data driven - you use data to inform your decisions.

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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