Head of, Financial Systems Engineering

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Head of Financial Systems, you will shape the future of Mistral’s Finance technology ecosystem.

• Lead the assessment of Mistral’s current Finance technology landscape, including tools, processes, data flows and pain points.
• Define and prioritize business, functional, and technical requirements for Finance systems in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Design a target Finance tech architecture, outlining system roles, integrations, and data flows and architectures
• Develop a data governance framework, including ownership, quality controls, and maintenance processes.
• Create and execute a prioritized plan to clean up and rationalize Finance datasets and execute it

What they're looking for

• Strong project management skills, from defining vision, strategy, and roadmaps, to stelar execution
• Engineering academic background, ideally from a tier-1 engineering school
• Deep data architecture knowledge, including mastery of data sources, pipelines, storage, transformation, and metadata management, with hands-on experience designing and…
• GenAI power user with Vibe coding skills, automation expertise, and experience building scalable, impactful products in a professional context.
• Experience in Finance technology assessment, system selection, and knowledge of tools such as SAP S4H, Kyriba, Lago, Payflows, etc

Tech stack

• BigQuery
• dbt