Finance Controls Data Analyst

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money with min fees, max ease, and full speed. Join our Finance Controls Data Analyst role in the Quality Assurance team, where you'll safeguard the integrity of Wise's financial records through rigorous oversight and innovative control systems. We streamline transactional financial controls for BS and PnL ledger movements, working on multiple projects to update reconciliations and models across our evolving product lines. In this role, you'll design models, scripts, and dashboards using Python, SQL, and DBT to control billions in monthly transactions, explain general ledger drivers, and build reconciliations. Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and controllers to integrate new products, resolve issues, and support audits—owning processes end-to-end in a fast-paced, agile environment. Be investigative, flexible, and ready to dive into new challenges across teams and time zones. With strong analytical skills and a passion for Wise's mission of money without borders, you'll help shape our financial future while enjoying flexible work, RSUs, and a diverse, inclusive culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and building models, scripts and dashboards in Python, SQL & DBT to explain and control billions of pounds of transactions on a monthly basis
• Explaining what drives our finance general ledger entries, leveraging your abilities to investigate data and build reconciliations across systems
• Contribute to the Quality Assurance analytics platform that forms the foundation of our control systems in collaboration with our dedicated engineering team
• Collaborating with a wide group of stakeholders, from Engineers and Implementation Managers, to Product teams to facilitate the integration of new products into finance systems and resolve complex issues
• Owning your domain and processes front to back, your decisions will help shape Wise’s future
• Support area & regional controllers with data during audit reviews and address ad-hoc requests

Required Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills
• Expertise in SQL
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines
• Able to effectively communicate complex analytical and technical results to non technical stakeholders
• Passionate about Wise's mission and vision
• Able to work autonomously, take initiative, set own tasks and meet deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• DBT & Snowflake
• Experience with Python
• Financial accounting
• Reconciliations
• Working in a fintech or other fast paced environment

Required Skills

• Analytical skills
• SQL
• Data pipelines
• Python
• DBT
• Snowflake
• Financial reconciliations
• Stakeholder communication
• Autonomous working
• Problem-solving

Benefits

• RSUs (stock options)
• Flexible working
• Parental leave
• Learning budget
• Paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Health insurance
• Company retreat
• Wise card

Wise is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce.