Finance Transformation & Change Manager

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Finance Transformation & Change ManagerFull-time Compensation: GBP 88000 - GBP 110000 - yearlyCompany DescriptionWise 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 Join our Finance team and help lead us through a critical transformationThe Finance team is critical in supporting the Wise mission of Money without Borders.We are working on numerous projects to transform the finance tribe to enable us to better manage risk, scale our operations and enable growth. This is an unique opportunity to be a key contributor to building the future of finance and Wise.We’re looking for a Finance Programmes and Change Manager to join us.This role will partner across the entire Finance function to drive the successful delivery of our key projects and programmes, as well as to embed and continuously improve project delivery within the function.This role would suit someone highly collaborative who is experienced in programme management and comfortable with working at pace to build something new. This role will give you the opportunity to:Lead high-impact Finance projects or programmes - You will own and deliver significant, complex initiatives across Group Finance (such as finance efficiency optimisation, controls uplift, and regulatory-driven change) impacting multiple teams. This is a hands-on role where you will directly drive delivery, working closely with stakeholders rather than relying on large, dedicated project teams. Working with finance process owners, senior leadership, and technical partners, you’ll define scope, success criteria, and delivery approach, ensuring execution with discipline and pace. You’ll drive prioritisation and decision-making across stakeholders, and define success metrics to track benefits realisation, delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, control, and scalability.Build cross-Finance alignment and drive change that sticks – You’ll partner closely with Accounting, Reporting, FP&A, Tax, Risk & Controls, Product, Analytics, and Engineering to ensure initiatives progress cohesively. You’ll use data, structured thinking, and stakeholder alignment to resolve blockers and drive outcomes. You’ll also lead structured change management, including impact assessments, communication, training, and adoption tracking to ensure sustainable change.Drive improvements in Finance processes, systems, and ways of working – You’ll collaborate with Finance leaders and Product teams to identify opportunities to standardise, automate, and simplify processes across Finance. You’ll ensure business requirements are met, systems and tooling are effectively leveraged, and compliance and control standards are upheld.Ensure strong programme governance and delivery discipline – You’ll lead planning, scheduling, and risk and issue management, with clear reporting and follow-up to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.About You: You are an experienced Programme Manager - able to establish credibility quickly and tailor your programme governance structures and controls to your environment. You have a recognised programme or portfolio management qualification and likely a project management qualification too. You might also have a change management qualification and experience of managing programmes of work on monday.com or Jira.You are an excellent communicator and highly collaborative - you are excellent at building relationships quickly and working across teams and functions; able to bring people together to...