Finance Systems Manager
IG Group · Kraków +1 · 22d ago
Job Title
Finance Systems ManagerJob Description
Finance Systems Manager - (AutoRek/FIS TMS)
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 is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.
The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next.
Join us at IG – the future gets built here.
About the role
As Finance Systems Manager, you will lead the team responsible for IG's financial reconciliation and treasury systems, with particular ownership of the AutoRek platform. You will combine people leadership with hands-on technical expertise, ensuring the stability, control environment and continuous improvement of critical finance systems that support regulatory, operational and financial reporting processes. The role will also support the administration and development of FIS Integrity TMS and other finance platforms.
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. 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 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)
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