{"id":3997415,"url":"https://alion.io/job/modelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls","title":"Finance Manager - Risk and Controls","company":{"id":4410409,"name":"Modelwise","domain":"modelwise.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/modelwise-gmbh","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Career sitemap","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":348,"ghost_share":0.009,"stale_share":0.124,"repost_share":0.069,"time_to_fill_p50_days":15,"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T16:30:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T12:47:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Company Description\nWise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.\nMin fees. Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether 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.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\nJob Description\nAt Wise, our mission is Money Without Borders: instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free. As we grow and scale, we're looking for an experienced Finance Manager to join our Finance Risk and Controls team in London. You will help strengthen our internal control environment and deliver against US SOX requirements. You will also lead the controls work on some of our most important finance transformation projects.\nYou will work closely with Finance, Product, Procurement, Operations and Technology teams. You will embed a strong control culture that supports Wise's growth and doesn't add unnecessary bureaucracy.\nYour Mission\nCreate and advise on end-to-end process and control documentation: Build process maps and risk-control matrices where they don't exist. Advise process owners on keeping them accurate and current in line with SOX standards.\n\nLead and support the implementation of new and improved processes and controls across Finance: Advise on identifying risks and designing and embedding controls across end-to-end processes. This includes fraud, payment, procurement, revenue and period-end accounting risks, and the IT dependencies.\n\nOwn the accountability framework to support Financial Statement attestation: Set clear ownership, escalation routes and governance for controls across Group Finance for the business processes you cover.\n\nBe the point of contact for control testing: Coordinate with control owners, Internal Audit and External Audit. Help build and run a testing programme that independently assesses controls, identifies gaps and validates remediation.\n\nSupport SOX readiness and remediation: Guide teams on US SOX and relevant local regulatory requirements. Drive the remediation of Material Weaknesses and the first-time implementation of controls.\n\nManage the Finance Risk and Controls Self Assessment: Make sure it is completed accurately, on time and with clear follow-up on actions.\n\nReport to senior leadership: Report to the Finance Leadership Team and prepare material for the Operational Risk Committee. Present control performance, deficiencies, remediation progress and residual risk clearly and concisely.\n\nPartner with stakeholders across the business: Work with Finance, Risk, Internal Audit and non-Finance teams to set standards and policies. Develop KRIs to monitor risk on a continuous basis.\n\nWhat you'll get from the role\nReal impact: You will shape how Wise implements SOX controls and remediates Material Weaknesses, and see the results.\n\nVisibility: You will regularly work with and present to senior leaders, including the Finance LT.\n\nAutonomy and ownership: You will have a high level of responsibility and the freedom to decide how best to deliver.\n\nBreadth of learning: You will gain in-depth knowledge of Wise's business by working with teams across Finance and the wider company.\n\nRoom to grow: You will build your leadership skills by driving remediation with stakeholders across the business, in a fast-growing, global FinTech.\n\nAbout you\nQualifications and experience\nYou have a professional accounting qualification, such as US CPA, ACA, ACCA or an international equivalent.\n\nYou have 8-10 years of experience in a similar role, in industry or at a Big 4 firm.\n\nYou have a deep understanding of SOX controls and regulations, including financial statement assertions, key controls, and design and operating effectiveness.\n\nYou have thorough process knowledge across areas such as Procurement, Revenue and HR.\n\nYou have experience testing internal controls and evaluating deficiencies.\n\nSkills and approach\nYou communicate excellently, including with executive leadership. You explain technical issues in plain language and lead with the conclusions that matter.\n\nYou work well with minimal direction in a fast-moving, less structured environment.\n\nYou are pragmatic and commercially minded. You apply proportionate controls that balance risk against business practicality.\n\nYou influence without relying on formal authority, and you stay calm when handling disagreement or resistance.\n\nYou take ownership and see remediation through to completion.\n\nYou work well in international, cross-functional teams. No Drama, Good Karma!\n\nNice to have\nA CIA, CISA or CFE qualification\n\nExperience in FinTech\n\nExperience implementing controls for the first time to support an IPO\n\nExperience with ERP or system implementations and IT general controls (segregation of duties, access, change management)\n\nAbout the team and location\nYou will join a team of professionals based in London and Tallinn, supported by external consultants. Our wider Finance team is spread across the globe, so expect regular video calls. You may also travel once or twice a year for Finance-wide initiatives.\nAdditional Information\nFor 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.\nWe're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.\nInclusive 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.\nIf you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.\nKeep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5903,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Simulation & Digital Twin Software","Industrial AI","Manufacturing & Industrial Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T01:46:20Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:5","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/modelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/modelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T14:31:52Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33707,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4410409},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4410409"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmodelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmodelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmodelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/modelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmodelwise-finance-manager-risk-and-controls"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3997415}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"modelwise.ai","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3997415},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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