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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\nAbout the role:\nYou'll join the Finance Tribe at a pivotal stage of Wise's growth. We've recently moved our primary listing from the LSE to Nasdaq, and as we scale globally we're investing significantly in the technical foundations of our finance systems - with SOX readiness as one of the critical drivers. Beyond audit and compliance, we see this as a chance to redefine what finance tooling looks like in the AI era.\nYou'll lead the engineering team behind Wise's Finance Systems estate - the platforms our Group Finance org runs the company financial operations on. This is a transformation role-over the next 2-3 years you'll partner with the Product and CFO org to modernise our ERP and surrounding finance tooling, stand up the engineering foundations for SOX as a newly US-listed company, and shape what AI-native finance operations look like at Wise.\nWhat you'll be owning:\nTechnical strategy for Finance Systems. Set the architecture and multi-year roadmap for our ERP and surrounding finance platforms.\nThe team. Lead, hire, and grow a senior engineering team. Set the bar for engineering quality in a domain where correctness, auditability, and resilience is non-negotiable.\nSOX engineering foundations. Build the tooling, controls, and change-management practices that make SOX compliance a property of how we Engineer.\nOperational maturity. Drive deployment frequency, observability, incident response, and change control to a standard appropriate for systems the CFO signs off on.\n Co-own the roadmap with Finance and Product. Translate Group Finance's priorities - (e.g. close acceleration, intercompany, AP/AR, statutory reporting, others) - into a credible engineering plan. \nAutomation and AI. Drive efficiencies through AI-assisted finance operational tooling by deciding where automation pays off, where it doesn't, and helping us make the right tooling choice & integrations.\nQualifications\nWhat do you need?:\n12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams in finance, fintech, or other regulated/audited domains.\nDeep experience with Tier 1 ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday Financials, or NetSuite at enterprise scale) - including at least one migration, consolidation, or major modernisation programme you led the engineering side of. \nSOX or equivalent control-environment experience. You've built - not just complied with - engineering practices that hold up to external audit.\nArchitectural range. Comfortable across vendor configuration, custom extensions, integration middleware, and event-driven patterns. You know when to buy, when to build, and when to wrap.\nStakeholder fluency at the CFO level. You can partner transparently with Finance Business Process leads, explain complex trade-offs, and successfully achieve organisational alignment.\nA pragmatic transformation instinct. You ship in increments, but you don't lose sight of the destination.\nNice to have\nFirst-hand experience taking a company through SOX readiness post-listing. \nFintech, payments, or banking background.\nPublic POV on AI in the finance back-office - what works, what's hype.\nAdditional Information\nInterested? Find out more:\nHow we work - a practical guide\n\nDEI @ Wise\n\nWise Tech Stack (2025 update)\n\nSee what it's like to work at Wise London!\n\nOur Engineering career map\n\nWise Engineering -https://medium.com/wise-engineering\n\nWhat do we offer:\nStarting salary: 135K - 175K GBP + RSUs\n\nWise Benefits\n\nInterested in more than one role?\nIf you're interested in multiple roles, please apply for just one-the one you're most excited about. If you submit multiple applications requiring the same assessment, we'll continue your recruitment journey using your first application, and any duplicate applications will be automatically closed. This helps ensure a fair and consistent interview process. If another role feels like a better fit, you can discuss this with your recruiter during the process.\n#LI-AB3 #LI-Hybrid\nFor everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. 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