WEX

Director, Global Travel FP&A

WEX

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Manchester • United Kingdom

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Lead

About the role

  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
budgetingforecastingfinancial planningfinancial analysisfinancial modellingpricing modelsregulatory reportingcapital managementstress testingscenario analysis
Soft Skills
leadershipteam managementcollaborationstrategic thinkingstakeholder engagementcoachingpeople managementaction planningrisk managementcommunication
Certifications
ACCAACACIMA