Top Finance Jobs in London

Manage UK liquidity and liquid asset portfolios, balance-sheet risks, funding and intragroup arrangements, cash forecasting, regulatory compliance, liquidity stress testing, and capital adequacy. Partner with global Treasury teams to oversee interest-rate, FX, and credit exposures, strengthen investment strategy, and maintain financial resilience across UK operations.

Leads Wise’s first-line financial crime control governance across entities. Owns the control library, maps controls to risks, processes, products, and regulations, improves assurance workflows, and oversees governance forums and approvals. Prepares dashboards and analysis for senior management and risk committees, supports audits and regulatory examinations, and partners with Product, Operations, and second-line Compliance. Manages a small team and drives control effectiveness, documentation quality, automation, and continuous improvement.

Leads Wise’s first-line financial crime risk assessment framework across entities, covering AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, risk scoring, control effectiveness, governance, remediation, regulatory impact analysis, metrics, and reporting. Partners with Compliance, Product, Analytics, and senior risk committees; supports audits and regulatory exams; improves methodology through standardization and technology; and manages a small team.

Support external financial reporting, disclosure governance, AI governance, month-end reporting, and Workiva automation. Lead audit-readiness initiatives, prepare accounting position papers, coordinate auditor walkthroughs, improve audit processes, and own audit issue tracking. The role requires strong reporting knowledge, ACA qualification, audit experience, documentation skills, project management, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-moving US-listed company environment.

Leads finance business partnering for core functions, managing two senior partners and an analyst. Advises the Chief People Officer and senior leaders on costs, workforce planning, headcount governance, location strategy, and organizational design. Owns financial KPIs, executive reporting, automation of workforce expense tracking, and scalable planning processes. The role also drives cross-functional collaboration, financial modeling, process improvement, and long-term global workforce cost optimization.

Supports the Balance Sheet Controller by ensuring accurate cash balances and financial reporting across global entities. Executes month-end cash controls, substantiates balances, reviews bank integrations, supports account setup, documents cash transaction processes, assists with audits, identifies control gaps, and collaborates with Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to strengthen processes and resolve issues.

Own Wise's UK operational resilience and outsourcing framework within the first-line Product Compliance and Risk team. Lead regulatory assessments, important business service mapping, impact tolerance management, resilience testing, self-assessments, board reporting, internal controls, third-party risk governance, due diligence, monitoring, contract requirements, change management, and exit planning. Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Risk, and Operations teams to ensure payment and investment products comply with UK regulatory expectations.

Leads issuer-side scheme compliance and card disputes across Visa and Mastercard programs. Develops compliance strategy, manages specialists, oversees card launches and supply-chain vendors, monitors fraud and dispute thresholds, negotiates with scheme partners, maintains audit-ready controls, and drives scalable automation, dashboards, templates, and playbooks.

Lead implementation and operation of the EU-tailored Enterprise Risk Management framework. Set partner onboarding and monitoring standards, run risk assessments and KRI monitoring, advise product teams, maintain 2LOD policies, support regulatory business plans, oversee control assurance and outsourcing oversight, present outcomes to committees and executives, and escalate incidents and issues as needed.