Finance Systems Manager

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Job Title Finance Systems Manager Job Description Finance Systems Manager - (AutoRek/FIS) Location: Kraków, Poland (hybrid — 3 days in office) Employment type: Permanent, full time Reporting line: Head of Finance Systems & Change Direct reports: Yes — leads the Finance Systems team (systems specialists and analysts) About IG Group IG Group (LSEG: IGG) is a leading global fintech company, established in 1974, and headquartered in London. As an innovative member of the FTSE 100, IG Group provides dynamic online trading platforms and a robust educational ecosystem, empowering ambitious individuals worldwide in their pursuit of financial freedom. With operations spanning eighteen countries across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America, IG Group offers clients access to approximately 19,000 financial markets, including shares, forex, indices, and commodities. IG Group is undergoing a significant transformation, led by CEO Breon Corcoran, appointed in early 2024, and a leadership team that includes newly appointed executives. Our focus is on three areas: delivering quality product to our customers to better meet their needs, embedding a high-performance culture across the organisation, and being more efficient and scalable in how we service our customers through digitisation. All of this is in service of growing our user base and our revenue on a sustainable basis. About the role As Finance Systems Manager, you will lead the team and the platforms that keep IG's finance function running, balancing hands-on operational excellence with the transformation of the systems estate. You will develop a technical team, own key vendor relationships, and safeguard the financial controls and regulatory compliance that underpin IG's operations, while modernising the systems that support future growth. About the team This role sits within the Finance Systems & Change team, part of IG's global Finance function. The team owns IG's finance technology landscape: maintaining business-as-usual operations across all finance systems, delivering enhancements and new solutions, and driving the digitisation of the finance function. As IG pursues a more efficient and scalable operating model, the team is central to IG's finance transformation — modernising platforms, improving data quality, and enabling finance to deliver faster, more reliable insight to the business. This role leads the Systems team within Finance Systems & Change, managing the specialists and analysts who keep IG's critical financial infrastructure running — including the Treasury & Reconciliation and Consolidation & Reporting support analysts. It reports to the Head of Finance Systems & Change and is a hands-on leadership role, combining people management with direct technical delivery. Key responsibilities Lead and develop the Finance Systems team — setting objectives, managing performance, building capability through mentoring and training, and owning recruitment and succession planning. Own and execute the strategic roadmap for finance systems, aligning platform capability with business priorities and prioritising investment. Oversee day-to-day operations across the finance systems estate as a hands-on manager, ensuring SLAs and system availability are maintained and personally resolving complex issues. Safeguard the financial controls and regulatory compliance that underpin IG's operations, ensuring audit readiness at all times. Own key vendor relationships, leading technical discussions and system upgrades, and build strong partnerships with Finance and Operations leadership. Drive transformation across the estate — including automation and process-optimisation opportunities — while maintaining deep technical involvement in system configuration and performance tuning. Support project delivery by coordinating resources and timelines for system implementations, partnering with project and product managers while personally leading critical technical workstreams. Role requirements 6+ years' hands-on experience with financial systems, including at least 3 years leading teams, operating credibly at both strategic and technical levels. Strong technical skills, including SQL proficiency and system integration and configuration experience, with the ability to personally troubleshoot complex reconciliation and system issues. A track record as a working manager who leads by example and participates directly in technical delivery and problem resolution. Deep operational knowledge of finance processes, with hands-on experience of maintaining and developing finance systems. Project-coordination skills, with the ability to manage timelines, resources and deliverables for system implementations. Proven ability to manage multiple priorities through critical periods such as month-end and year-end. University degree in Finance, Business, Technology or a related field (or equivalent experience). Desirable Experience designing, implementing or upgrading finance systems solutions. Experience in fintech, investment management or trading environments, with an understanding of the trade lifecycle and settlement processes. Familiarity with the platforms in IG's finance estate (for example AutoRek, FIS Integrity TMS, iRecs, HFM, Essbase, Concur, Sun systems or Anaplan). Number of openings 0