Associate Controller - São Paulo, Brazil

Company Description

Wise 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

As Wise continues to grow, we need to grow our finance capabilities to:

• Help pilot the rocket ship. Controller capabilities are essential to steer the ship in the right direction, ensuring we comply with accounting, regulatory and tax requirements. 

• Work with the Accounting team, Regional Controllers & Risk teams to help build compliant and accurate financial reporting automatically from the source systems with clear definitions and change management.

• Compile monthly, quarterly and yearly reports for submitting to regulatory authorities. 

• Work with Finance teams to provide financial data during regulatory and financial audits.

• Help the Regional Finance team in performing day-to-day overview of legal entities, including analysing financial results and making sure necessary financial controls are performed.

• Work with finance teams to ensure financial systems, controls and processes are prepared for LatAM regional requirements.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in either financial controlling, financial audit, financial reporting or accounting.

• Knowledge of local accounting standards and strong understanding of accounting principles.

• Experience in working with large datasets and building financial reports for businesses like ours. 

• Dealt with internal or external stakeholders on a regular basis, communicating reports, definitions, requirements etc.

• Experience with working in a financial services industry.

• Valid CRC - Certified Public Accountant in Brazil. 

Skills:

• Advanced financial reporting and analysis skills.

• Fluent in English. 

• You are accurate and detail oriented, great at finishing detailed jobs and meeting deadlines.

• You are a self-starter and can organise your own work.

• Able to communicate complex issues to all levels of internal and external stakeholders.

• Have an ability to move beyond Excel and dig into raw data.

• You get finance and accounting terminology and have the ability to understand the importance of tax and regulatory rules & frameworks.

Additional Information

• You have a passion for what we’re building at Wise.

• You are keen to roll up sleeves and get the job done.

• You are humble, comfortable operating with a high level of uncertainty, can act independently, be decisive and take responsibility.

• You are open to self-development, willing to gain experience, improve your skills and keen to learn new tricks.

• You are detail oriented, with ability to deliver and communicate complex areas on time and succinctly.

• You are able to work with multiple teams within and outside of finance as well as internationally on projects or ad hoc requests as required, with flexibility and a can do attitude.

• You feel passionate about implementing your skills and knowledge in creation and improvement of controls framework and internal processes.

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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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