Senior/Principal Product Manager - Accounting Infrastructure

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

This role is a unique opportunity to have a massive impact on Wise's mission, and build the engine that powers the revolution, Money without Borders.

Your mission:

Your mission is to scale the backend financial engines at Wise during a pivotal growth phase following our recent US listing on NASDAQ. You will lead critical work within our Accounting Infrastructure team - which is responsible for the financial truth at Wise..

Your impact:

• Your mandate is to maintain the core General Ledger databases, backend processing microservices, and financial infrastructure that act as the source of truth for Wise.
• You will ensure the availability, technical integrity, and control environment of our ledger infrastructure.
• This role focuses strictly on the backend ledger systems and internal financial services.

• The Scale: You will manage ledger infrastructure that ingests over 1bn+ journal entries per month and oversee the process that turns these into financial reports.
• System Boundaries: You own the technical health and data integrity controls of the core General Ledger databases and company ERP platforms.
• Downstream Trust: The controls you build directly impact the data accuracy of downstream reporting lakes, tax systems, and corporate consolidation tools.

Example of questions that you will answer in your role are -

• How do you design reliable tracking systems and workflows so we never lose track of money or make unapproved/unanticipated changes to our financial data?
• How do you build secure software tools and APIs so that our team members can post financial records safely with minimal risk of errors?
• How do you structure our databases so they can automatically generate separate, correct financial reports for different regional accounting standards at the same time?

• You will define and execute the product strategy to achieve real-time reconciliation and assurance at global scale, providing functional finance teams with systems they need to operate effectively, compliantly, and efficiently in 50+ countries.
• You are joining the Finance Product team at a pivotal, hyper-growth stage as Wise has recently listed in the US.
• The Finance team is strategically expanding its footprint to raise the bar on global regulatory maturity and provide a robust financial foundation for Wise's sustained, rapid growth.
• This expansion is directly driven by the need to proactively mature our global financial controls and infrastructure to meet the highest standards required of a US-listed, global financial technology company.

Qualifications

What we're looking for:

• Product Management Excellence
• 5-6 years of product building experience, as a product manager in a hands on role
• A willingness and capability to dive into the technical architecture, engaging directly with engineers to influence ledger design, data models, and event-sourcing patterns.
• An analytical mind to trace data lineage across interconnected microservices and design systemic solutions.
• Have defined and moved KPIs with features shipped
• Have built roadmaps for teams finding a path from uncertainty/chaos to clarity
• Problem Solving
• Strong grasp of mathematics, analytically-minded, can clearly frame problems, articulate hypotheses and solutions, measure them and has used the tools to be able to do this without an analyst
• Showcases system-level thinking, a proven ability to look beyond the scope of a single product to design interconnected systems

Nice-to-haves:

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

Additional Information

• Base

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) & a variety of other benefits: Wise Benefits

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• 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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