Senior/Principal Product Manager - Accounting Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• The Scale: You will manage ledger infrastructure that ingests over 1bn+ journal entries per month and oversee the process that turns these into financial reports.
• System Boundaries: You own the technical health and data integrity controls of the core General Ledger databases and company ERP platforms.
• Downstream Trust: The controls you build directly impact the data accuracy of downstream reporting lakes, tax systems, and corporate consolidation tools.
• Example of questions that you will answer in your role are -
• How do you design reliable tracking systems and workflows so we never lose track of money or make unapproved/unanticipated changes to our financial data?
• How do you build secure software tools and APIs so that our team members can post financial records safely with minimal risk of errors?
• How do you structure our databases so they can automatically generate separate, correct financial reports for different regional accounting standards at the same time?
• You will define and execute the product strategy to achieve real-time reconciliation and assurance at global scale, providing functional finance teams with systems they need to operate effectively, compliantly, and efficiently in 50+ countries.

Requirements

• Product Management Excellence
• 5-6 years of product building experience, as a product manager in a hands on role
• A willingness and capability to dive into the technical architecture, engaging directly with engineers to influence ledger design, data models, and event-sourcing patterns.
• An analytical mind to trace data lineage across interconnected microservices and design systemic solutions.
• Have defined and moved KPIs with features shipped
• Have built roadmaps for teams finding a path from uncertainty/chaos to clarity
• Problem Solving
• Strong grasp of mathematics, analytically-minded, can clearly frame problems, articulate hypotheses and solutions, measure them and has used the tools to be able to do this without an analyst
• Showcases system-level thinking, a proven ability to look beyond the scope of a single product to design interconnected systems
• Finance, Payments or Treasury experience particularly in Ledgers, Controls or Accounting
• Domain Understanding
• Understanding of finance systems in either an engineering, data or product role
• Understanding of operating in Finance organisations including financial reporting, commercials, and risk and control
• Experience with SOx Controls or Audits
• Experience of third party finance systems
• Base salary: £93-148K (based on experience & interview outcomes)
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) & a variety of other benefits: Wise Benefits
• For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
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Benefits

Additional Information

This role is a unique opportunity to have a massive impact on Wise's mission, and build the engine that powers the revolution, Money without Borders. Your mission: Your mission is to scale the backend financial engines at Wise during a pivotal growth phase following our recent US listing on NASDAQ. You will lead critical work within our Accounting Infrastructure team - which is responsible for the financial truth at Wise..

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