Strategic FP&A Manager – Growth & Insights

Risk Hub; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise, a global technology company, is seeking an FP&A Manager in London to own planning, forecasting and financial modelling for key business areas. You will partner with senior stakeholders, build robust models, and drive data-driven decision making across fast-growing operations.

In this role you will lead cross-functional FP&A workstreams, improve reporting processes and provide strategic analyses, ROI assessments and scenario planning to support Wise’s mission and growth.

Qualifications

• You have proven experience in FP&A, commercial finance, strategic finance or finance business partnering, ideally in a complex or fast-growing organisation.
• You have owned planning, forecasting, performance analysis or management reporting processes and understand how the P&L, cash flow and operational drivers connect.
• You have hands-on experience building structured financial models, working with large or imperfect datasets and using scenarios and sensitivities to support decisions.
• You have partnered with senior non-finance stakeholders, challenged assumptions and turned analysis into clear recommendations, becoming a trusted advisor.
• You have a professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders, combining financial and operational insight to help them understand performance, key drivers and trade-offs, and make better decisions.
• You’ll lead planning and forecasting for your areas, challenging assumptions, tracking performance and contributing to longer-term plans.
• You’ll build scalable models and reporting for the areas you support, using relevant metrics and scenarios to make risks and opportunities clear.
• You’ll assess investments, pricing, growth and efficiency initiatives through robust business cases, ROI and payback analysis, providing recommendations that help stakeholders prioritise resources.
• You’ll lead workstreams within complex cross-functional projects and improve FP&A processes, data quality and reporting in the areas you support, sharing best practice across Finance.

Skills

FP&A experience

Commercial finance

Strategic finance

Finance business partnering

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Anaplan

Planful

SQL

BI tools

Education

ACCA/ACCA/CIMA professional qualification

Tools

Anaplan

Planful

BI tools

SQL

Job description

Wise, a global technology company, is seeking an FP&A Manager in London to own planning, forecasting and financial modelling for key business areas. You will partner with senior stakeholders, build robust models, and drive data-driven decision making across fast-growing operations.

In this role you will lead cross-functional FP&A workstreams, improve reporting processes and provide strategic analyses, ROI assessments and scenario planning to support Wise’s mission and growth.