Finance Systems Manager

Minimum compensation: starting from 230,000 PLN. The final offer will be determined based on the candidate's experience and competencies.

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).