Hybrid Director, Global Travel FP&A

at WEX

• Job title: Director, Global Travel FP&A
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Finance Director leading financial strategy and management at a regulated financial services firm in the UK. Collaborating with senior leadership on governance, compliance, and operational resilience.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes across the business, ensuring alignment with commercial strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain the business financial plan and long-term financial strategy to support growth, resilience, and compliance.
• Provide strategic financial analysis to the Board and senior leadership team, highlighting emerging risks, opportunities, and key performance indicators.
• Partner with senior business leaders to support delivery of both short-term priorities and long-term strategic objectives.
• Own the month-end close process for relevant business areas, working collaboratively across finance and commercial teams to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Lead financial performance review processes, supporting senior leaders to deliver against targets through clear analysis, action planning, and remediation where required.
• Develop meaningful financial insights, reporting, and performance metrics to support decision-making and investment priorities.
• Support commercial teams with pricing models, financial modelling, and business case development for new opportunities and complex customer arrangements.
• Lead specialist finance teams to ensure accurate reporting, strong controls, and high-quality analysis that supports decision-making at both business and customer level.
• Support commission-related financial processes and wider reporting requirements as needed.
• Deliver high-quality stakeholder reporting, including quarterly business reviews and senior leadership presentations.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team through effective people management, succession planning, and a strong focus on engagement and development.
• Hold executive accountability for the design and effectiveness of the safeguarding governance framework, ensuring compliance with regulatory rules and guidance relating to the protection of customer funds.
• Oversee the practical implementation of safeguarding controls across the wider organisation, ensuring strong governance, effective monitoring, and clear accountability.
• Provide formal assurance to the Board on the adequacy of safeguarding arrangements, including outcomes from internal monitoring, independent reviews, and external audit activity.
• Hold accountability for accurate, timely, and reliable regulatory reporting relating to capital adequacy and financial resilience.
• Develop and maintain a robust capital planning framework, ensuring sufficient financial resources and liquidity are maintained in line with regulatory requirements.
• Own and maintain the organisation’s wind-down plan, ensuring it remains credible, practical, and regularly reviewed and tested.
• Develop and oversee stress testing and scenario analysis frameworks, including reverse stress testing, to assess resilience under adverse conditions and support capital and liquidity planning.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to the Board and senior leadership team, with a strong focus on governance, control, and risk management.
• Oversee the preparation and submission of all finance-related regulatory reporting, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and deadlines.
• Maintain and strengthen a robust internal control environment within the finance function, ensuring adherence to policy, governance standards, and regulatory expectations.
• Oversee outsourced and shared service finance activities, ensuring service quality, effective oversight, and compliance with agreed obligations.
• Monitor changes in the regulatory environment and assess potential impacts on financial operations, controls, and reporting requirements.
• Oversee treasury-related activities, including cash flow management, liquidity planning, and banking relationships.
• Ensure effective financial resource allocation and compliance with internal funding and transfer pricing arrangements.

Requirements

• Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, ACA, CIMA) is required.
• Proven experience in leading and managing teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.
• Experience in a senior finance role leading commercial and accounting teams
• Experience within a UK-regulated financial services environment, ideally in an E-Money Institution (EMI) or Payment Institution.
• Proven expertise in capital management, safeguarding, stress testing, and regulatory reporting under the FCA regime.
• Prior experience holding a Senior Management Function (SMF) role, particularly SMF2, is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Annual company bonus
• 40 hour week – Monday to Friday
• Hybrid working
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Private Medical
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays – with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing