Finance Systems Manager

About the role

About the team

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 the AutoRek platform administration and roadmap, ensuring reconciliations are robust, scalable and aligned with business and regulatory requirements.
• Act as the senior subject matter expert for AutoRek, overseeing system configuration, reconciliation design, exception management and platform optimisation.
• 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, 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 administering, configuring and supporting Autorek in a complex finance environment.
• Project-coordination skills, with the ability to manage timelines, resources and deliverables for system implementations.
• 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.

• Experience with the platforms in IG's finance estate (AutoRek, FIS Integrity TMS, iRecs)