Product Implementation Lead, Wise

• Excellent and consistent ability to create clarity with stakeholders
• You’re hands on when it comes to product implementation and delivering features and building roadmaps. You’d do everything needed to make the team and the product successful. You get it done
• Required to influence without authority with stakeholders to ensure that function objectives and KPIs are met
• You have experience in finance systems and familiarity with the core principles of finance
• You are a seasoned lead with experience of managing end-to-end implementation lifecycles from scoping to delivery and post production support. You have delivered ambitious, impactful customer / non-customer facing products before in data-driven environments
• Leadership experience. You have proven experience leading teams and empowering cross-functional, medium-large diverse teams with a long term vision and strategy for non-customer facing teams
• You are equally willing to work on technical architecture, finance & reporting requirements, audit obligations and are able to shape and influence thinking on these point

Desirable

• We’re looking for a lead to join our growing Finance Implementation Team in London or Tallinn
• This role is a unique opportunity to have an impact on Wise’s mission by ensuring we build smart and scalable internal financial systems, grow as a product leader and empower millions more people with instant, borderless money
• You’ll ensure that the finance impacts of Wise’s product expansion are considered, built/recorded, controlled, reported and explained in an efficient, timely and accurate way
• You’ll build an understanding of how new and existing products translate into compliant financials & lead the team to integrate product changes into finance ledger (Product changes such as new regions & new currency launches, new products, new features etc.)
• This involves working with product managers, engineers, analysts and other finance stakeholders
• You’ll share knowledge on finance requirements and collaborate with product teams to reduce current risks and gaps impacting financials
• You’ll lead retros on large finance implementations or failures and ensure learnings are used to improve future expansions
• You’ll own and track the quarterly plans and prioritizations for the team, set team KPIs, facilitate and build efficient processes for the team to cover all areas of implementation - building finance ledger, controls, explaining insights and reporting
• You’ll be responsible for hiring, developing, and supporting our finance implementation team of five implementation managers
• You’ll bring external ideas, best practices through leadership into your work and future plans
• Choose your path to impact – we believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own
• Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls
• Grow as a leader – Grow and inspire your team to join our mission
• Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our internal product finance systems while working with a group of amazing and dedicated implementation managers, engineers, analysts, and operations
• Work with a modern microservices system with key parts written in-house, which allows to move fast and build controls and experiences that are above industry standards and push the boundaries of what is possible