Finance Manager - Asia

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.