Finance Director - APAC
Company Description
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.For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Finance Director to join and lead our APAC finance team, based in Singapore!
If you’ve got Financial Services experience dealing with Commercial Finance, Strategic advisory, Financial Resources Process & Controls and Audit, and working with a wide range of stakeholders both internally and externally, and an interest in working at one of the fastest growing FinTech companies, read on!
Your mission- Be the finance leader for the APAC region
- Act as the primary finance partner to APAC business and product leaders, supporting and influencing strategy and investment decisions
- Provide actionable management insight and driving performance improvements
- Own the regional P&L, balance sheet and cash flows across multiple entities and currencies.
- Be the regional main point of contact in finance to ensure that all new entities, products and legislation are correctly interpreted and efficiently structured.
- Influence APAC planning, forecasting and scenario analysis; translate product and market plans into financial outcomes.
- Track and improve unit economics (e.g., take rate, cost per transaction, losses, funding and FX costs).
- Lead the APAC Finance team and support them in their transformation journey
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership in fintech/payments/banking or high-scale tech, with regional scope.
- Proven ownership of a multi-entity, multi-currency P&L and balance sheet in a regulated environment.
- Track record building teams and scaling processes in high-growth, product-led organisations.
- Strong controllership, financial reporting and FP&A foundations; comfortable moving from strategy to spreadsheets.
- Proven strategic finance impact by supporting decision making to support growth and expansion in existing and/or new markets
- Regularly managed and influenced senior stakeholders (board of directors including NEDs, regional leadership committees
- Inclusive people leader who develops talent and builds diverse teams.
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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