Associate Controller

**Associate Controller - São Paulo**:
We're looking for an **Associate** **Controller -** **São Paulo** to join our finance team in São Paulo, Brazil

If you've got Financial Services experience dealing with financial controls, audit and advisory, and working with a wide range of stakeholders both internally and externally, and an interest in working at one of the fastest growing FinTech companies, read on

You'll receive a competitive package including a salary range starting at R$14.5K monthly, based on experience + Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) in a profitable company + best in class benefits

**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.

**A bit about you**:
**Experience**:

- 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.

**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.

**Who are you?**:

- 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.

**Must already be legally authorized to work in Brazil, we cannot provide Visa sponsorship for this role**

**This is NOT a remote role, this is a hybrid role based in São Paulo, Brazil.**

**Key Benefits**:

- Competitive gross monthly salary, based on experience
- RSU's in a rapidly growing company
- Health and Dental allowance for you and your dependents
- Life Insurance and Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
- ️ Paid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 "Me" days + 1 volunteer day, annually
- ️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
- 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us & child care assistance
- Meal (560 BRL per month) and Food (880 BRL per month) Vouchers
- Transportation vouchers
- Flexible remote working policy
- ✈️ Wisers can work remotely for 90 days a year. By 'remote' we don't just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to

**We're people without borders — without judgment or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you're passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you'll fit right in.**

**And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we'd especially love to hear from you if you're from an under-represented demographic.**

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