Product Lead - Finance

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Wise is a global technology company on a mission to build the best way to move and manage the world’s money with min fees, max ease, and full speed. As Product Lead - Finance, your mandate is to build and maintain the foundational financial platform that guarantees the integrity and compliance of every transaction across Wise’s global ecosystem, securing over £40bn in monthly financial flow. You will lead the Accounting and Operations workstream, architecting the ledger of record that underpins regulatory reporting, tax filing, and executive decision-making, while owning processes like master data management, AR/AP, and payouts at hyper-scale (1bn+ journal entries/month, 200k events/minute). Joining at a pivotal hyper-growth stage as Wise prepares for a US listing, you will define and execute the product strategy for real-time reconciliation and global financial controls, elevating Wise to the standards of a US-listed fintech leader. This role demands a hands-on leader with deep finance systems expertise, product building experience, and system-level thinking to eliminate operational risks and empower finance teams across 50+ countries. If you thrive in chaos-to-clarity transformations and are fired up by Wise's mission, this is your chance to shape the financial backbone of money without borders.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the foundational financial platform that guarantees the integrity and compliance of every transaction across Wise’s global ecosystem
• Lead the Accounting and Operations workstream within the Finance Product team
• Act as the architect of financial truth at Wise, ensuring integrity of every record of movement of money
• Serve as the single source of consumable financial data (the ledger of record) for regulatory reporting, tax filing, and strategic decision-making
• Lead the vision for a ledgering system processing over 1bn+ journal entries a month and supporting 200k events per minute
• Own Finance processes around Accounting business processes, Master data management, AR/AP and Payouts
• Define and execute product strategy for real-time reconciliation and assurance at global scale
• Provide functional finance teams with systems to operate effectively, compliantly, and efficiently in 50+ countries

Required Qualifications

• Understanding of finance systems in either an engineering, data or product role
• Understanding of operating in Finance organisations including financial reporting, commercials, and risk and controls
• Multiple years of product building experience, either as a product, engineering or operations leader in a hands-on role
• Strong individual contributor, willing to get hands dirty and build product yourself
• Held multiple product roles, with a background that shows a superpower (engineer, analyst, consultant, financial, serial entrepreneur, etc.)
• Enthusiasm for the Wise mission
• Flexible in approach - not stuck to a “by the book” product role definition
• Analytically-minded, can clearly frame problems, articulate hypotheses and solutions, measure them

Preferred Qualifications

• Finance, Payments or Treasury experience particularly in Ledgers, Controls or Accounting
• Experience with SOx Controls or Audits
• Experience of third party finance systems

Required Skills

• Product Management Excellence
• Domain Understanding of finance systems
• Hands-on technical engagement with engineers on ledger design, data models, and event-sourcing patterns
• Defining and moving KPIs with shipped features
• Building roadmaps from uncertainty to clarity
• Leadership and team growth
• System-level thinking
• Analytical problem-solving
• Hypothesis articulation and measurement

Benefits

• RSUs (Restricted Stock Units)
• Flexible working
• Competitive base salary (£120,000 to £145,000)
• Inclusive and diverse team environment
• Mission-driven culture
• Global locations
• Professional development opportunities
• Wise card

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