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Finance Manager - Asia
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Finance Manager - Asia
wise asia-pacific pte. ltd.- Posted a day ago
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Job Description
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.
