Senior Engineering Lead - Group Finance Systems

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

• Whether 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.
• As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
• For everyone, everywhere.
• More about our mission and what we offer .

Job Description

About the role

• You'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.
• You'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.

What you'll be owning:

• Technical strategy for Finance Systems. Set the architecture and multi-year roadmap for our ERP and surrounding finance platforms.
• The 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.
• SOX engineering foundations . Build the tooling, controls, and change-management practices that make SOX compliance a property of how we Engineer.
• Operational maturity. Drive deployment frequency, observability, incident response, and change control to a standard appropriate for systems the CFO signs off on.
• 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.
• Automation 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.

Qualifications

What do you need?:

• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams in finance, fintech, or other regulated/audited domains.
• Deep 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.
• SOX or equivalent control-environment experience. You've built — not just complied with — engineering practices that hold up to external audit.
• Architectural 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.
• Stakeholder fluency at the CFO level. You can partner transparently with Finance Business Process leads, explain complex trade-offs, and successfully achieve organisational alignment.
• A pragmatic transformation instinct. You ship in increments, but you don't lose sight of the destination.

Nice to have

• First-hand experience taking a company through SOX readiness post-listing.
• Fintech, payments, or banking background.
• Public POV on AI in the finance back-office — what works, what's hype.

Additional Information

Interested? Find out more:

• How we work – a practical guide
• DEI @ Wise
• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)
• See what it's like to work at Wise London!
• Our Engineering career map
• Wise Engineering – https://medium.com/wise-engineering

What do we offer:

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• 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.

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• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
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