Requirements

12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams in finance, fintech, or other regulated/audited domains.
Deep experience with Tier 1 ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday Financials, or NetSuite at enterprise scale), including leading at least one migration, consolidation, or major modernisation programme on the engineering side.
SOX or equivalent control-environment experience, having built engineering practices that hold up to external audit.
Architectural range across vendor configuration, custom extensions, integration middleware, and event-driven patterns with sound decision-making on when to buy, build, or wrap solutions.
Stakeholder fluency at the CFO level with ability to partner transparently with Finance Business Process leads, explain complex trade-offs, and achieve organisational alignment.
Pragmatic transformation instinct: capable of shipping in increments while maintaining focus on long-term goals.

Nice to haves

First-hand experience taking a company through SOX readiness post-listing.
Background in fintech, payments, or banking.
Public point of view on AI in the finance back-office, understanding what works and what is hype.

Setting the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for ERP and surrounding finance platforms.
Leading, hiring, and growing a senior engineering team, ensuring engineering quality focused on correctness, auditability, and resilience.
Building SOX engineering foundations including tooling, controls, and change-management practices for compliance.
Driving operational maturity in deployment frequency, observability, incident response, and change control suitable for CFO-approved systems.
Co-owning the roadmap with Finance and Product by translating Group Finance priorities into an engineering plan.
Driving efficiencies through AI-assisted finance operational tooling by deciding where automation adds value and making tooling and integration choices.