Senior Engineering Lead - Group Finance Systems

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.