About the Role
We’re looking for a Finance Manager, Asia to join our Regional Finance team in Singapore.
You’ll play a key role in strengthening our Regional finance capabilities, overseeing financial performance and controls across Asia legal entities, and ensuring we meet local accounting, regulatory and tax requirements.
This is a highly cross-functional role with significant ownership, working closely with Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Compliance, Legal and other Finance teams.
What You’ll Do
Own financial oversight of Asia legal entities, including analysis of financial performance and monitoring of financial, capital and liquidity controls.
Lead regulatory and financial reporting, coordinating monthly, quarterly and annual submissions and supporting ad-hoc reporting requirements.
Monitor regulatory capital requirements and ensure entities remain appropriately capitalised.
Lead finance and statutory audits for assigned entities, including coordinating financial information for regulatory examinations and Group audits.
Partner across Finance, Banking, Compliance, Risk, Legal and Product to ensure reporting, systems, controls and processes meet regional requirements.
Drive improvements to finance processes and controls, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate reporting.
Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights for internal and external stakeholders.
Support Regional Finance initiatives and evolving business requirements as Wise continues to scale across Asia.
What You’ll Get
Meaningful ownership and autonomy – take responsibility for key entities and help shape how Regional Finance operates.
Broad regional exposure – work across markets, legal entities and teams in an international fintech environment.
Build for scale – improve reporting, controls and processes as Wise grows across Asia.
Develop your career – deepen your expertise across financial control, regulatory reporting, data and finance operations.
Qualifications
About You
You’ll ideally have:
6+ years of relevant experience in financial control, audit, financial reporting, management accounting or a related field.
Strong knowledge of IFRS and/or US GAAP and a solid understanding of accounting principles.
Experience owning or supporting financial reporting, statutory audits or regulatory requirements.
Strong financial analysis skills and confidence working with large and complex datasets.
Experience partnering with senior internal and external stakeholders and communicating complex financial topics clearly.
Strong attention to detail and the ability to deliver high-quality work to deadlines.
A self-starter mindset – comfortable taking ownership, making decisions and working independently in a fast-moving environment.
An understanding of how accounting, tax and regulatory requirements affect financial operations and controls.
An automation mindset, with an interest in eliminating manual work and improving finance processes through technology. Experience with SQL, Python or similar tools is a plus.
Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal and other teams internationally.
Most importantly, you’re excited about Wise’s mission, comfortable operating in an evolving environment, and willing to roll up your sleeves to solve problems and build better ways of working.
Who we are
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold over 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cross-border payments network that will one day power money without borders for everyone, everywhere. However you use the platform, Wise is on a mission to make your life easier and save you money.
Co-founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus, Wise launched in 2011 under its original name TransferWise. It is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable technology companies and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker, WISE.
16 million people and businesses use Wise. In fiscal year 2023, Wise processed approximately £105 billion in cross-border transactions, saving customers around £1.5 billion.
What it’s really like to work here
At Wise, we do things a bit differently. There’s no corporate nonsense, and no old-fashioned hierarchy. Instead, we work in dozens of self-sufficient, autonomous teams. Think of them like start-ups within a start-up that learn from each other.
Each team picks the problems they want to solve. So there’s no micro-management. No hiding behind fancy job titles. And no one telling you what to do. You are your own boss. But you’ll get tons of guidance and plenty of support from talented, super-smart colleagues from all over Wise.
We’re going to be upfront — the way we work doesn’t suit everyone. But if freedom, autonomy, and life-affirming, head-scratching professional challenges rock your world, we could be a match made in heaven.