Finance Planning Senior Analyst, Wise

• Prior experience in a regulated environment is crucial to this role, ideally Including experience in Banking, Asset Management, Fintech with basic familiarity of prudential regulations (e.g. CRR, IFPR)). Experience in a multinational environment is a plus!
• Experience of building and/or running stress tests to support ICARA/ICAAP process or scenario analysis
• A self starter with the ability to analyse data, take judgements and suggest structural and product strategies to improve capital and liquidity efficiency
• Worked in a fast moving, multinational financial services environment
• Expertise in building financial models and be comfortable with P&L, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow statements
• Experience and knowledge of Macroeconomic factors and their impacts on financials e.g. interest rates
• Skills:
• Passionate about what we’re building at Wise
• Love digging in data, numbers, thinking systematically, and analysing inter-dependencies
• Keen to roll up sleeves and get the job done
• Strong communicator: articulate, clear, strategic - with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Humble, comfortable operating with a level of uncertainty, keen to learn. Firm and forceful when required
• Able to operate to defined timelines while bringing together a diverse stakeholder group
• Able to work across multiple teams with flexibility and a can do attitude
• Mandatory experience/skills:
• Experience with producing forecasts supporting any of the following:
• ICAAP/ICARA
• Stress Testing or scenario analysis
• Wind Down Planning
• Qualified accountant

Desirable

• Due to continued and rapid growth we’re on the hunt for an experienced Finance professional to join our FP&A team in Shoreditch, London. You’ll be part of the team that helps pilot the rocket ship
• We’re looking for a Senior Analyst to join the Financial Resources Forecasting & Analysis team, part of Wise’s FP&A team. The team's primary responsibilities involve supporting the finance function’s forecast and collaborating with stakeholders on both entity-specific and group forecasts
• These efforts aim to deliver consolidated forecasts that help the business achieve its mission, with a strong focus on the group’s capital and liquidity resources
• The successful candidate will play a key role in coordinating efforts across multiple teams, including FP&A, Strategic Finance, Banking, Treasury, Risk, and Financial Controllers to produce rolling group and entity forecasts, stress testing forecasts for ICARA/ILAAP as well as the group viability statement forecasts
• As a member of the FP&A team you will help ensure the finance-owned regulatory processes and risks are understood by the candidate
• Assist the team by ensuring that models (ICARA/ICAAP), stress tests and other regulatory requirements are performed as required by regulators e.g. FCA (UK), APRA (Australia) etc
• This also requires developing an understanding of our business drivers and the overall forecasting process
• Ensure that capital and liquidity regulatory headroom is monitored as part of the ICARA, ILAAP and viability statement forecasting process
• Our finance team is spread across the globe, but mainly in London and Tallinn, so do expect a lot of video-calls
• Your work will be instrumental in us delivering an ICARA and Wind Down Plan, as well as improving our knowledge, control and reporting of capital requirements, which is becoming a fundamental skill as we grow our product suite and geographical coverage