Finance Manager, Asia

Wise

About the Role

We’re looking for a Finance Manager, Asia to join our Regional Finance team in Singapore.

You’ll play a key role in strengthening our Regional finance capabilities, overseeing financial performance and controls across Asia legal entities, and ensuring we meet local accounting, regulatory and tax requirements.

This is a highly cross-functional role with significant ownership, working closely with Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Compliance, Legal and other Finance teams.

What You’ll Do

• Own financial oversight of Asia legal entities, including analysis of financial performance and monitoring of financial, capital and liquidity controls.

• Lead regulatory and financial reporting, coordinating monthly, quarterly and annual submissions and supporting ad-hoc reporting requirements.

• Monitor regulatory capital requirements and ensure entities remain appropriately capitalised.

• Lead finance and statutory audits for assigned entities, including coordinating financial information for regulatory examinations and Group audits.

• Partner across Finance, Banking, Compliance, Risk, Legal and Product to ensure reporting, systems, controls and processes meet regional requirements.

• Drive improvements to finance processes and controls, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate reporting.

• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights for internal and external stakeholders.

• Support Regional Finance initiatives and evolving business requirements as Wise continues to scale across Asia.

• What You’ll Get

• Meaningful ownership and autonomy – take responsibility for key entities and help shape how Regional Finance operates.

• Broad regional exposure – work across markets, legal entities and teams in an international fintech environment.

• Build for scale – improve reporting, controls and processes as Wise grows across Asia.

• Develop your career – deepen your expertise across financial control, regulatory reporting, data and finance operations.

Qualifications

• About You

You’ll ideally have:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in financial control, audit, financial reporting, management accounting or a related field.

• Strong knowledge of IFRS and/or US GAAP and a solid understanding of accounting principles.

• Experience owning or supporting financial reporting, statutory audits or regulatory requirements.

• Strong financial analysis skills and confidence working with large and complex datasets.

• Experience partnering with senior internal and external stakeholders and communicating complex financial topics clearly.

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to deliver high-quality work to deadlines.

• A self-starter mindset – comfortable taking ownership, making decisions and working independently in a fast-moving environment.

• An understanding of how accounting, tax and regulatory requirements affect financial operations and controls.

• An automation mindset, with an interest in eliminating manual work and improving finance processes through technology. Experience with SQL, Python or similar tools is a plus.

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal and other teams internationally.

• Most importantly, you’re excited about Wise’s mission, comfortable operating in an evolving environment, and willing to roll up your sleeves to solve problems and build better ways of working.

• Additional Information

• 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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