Strategic Finance Manager

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. We deliver award-winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™.
At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment ; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.
If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Responsibilities

The mandate; Be the person the CFO trusts to tell the capital markets story — to lenders, rating agencies, the board, and equity investors — and make sure every number behind it is bulletproof.; What you'll own; Monthly finance call. You own the preparation and materials for the monthly finance review — the operating rhythm through which the CFO and senior leadership track performance, flag issues, and make decisions. You ensure the pack is sharp, the variances are explained, and the meeting moves fast.; Why it's rare; Most finance roles at this level give you one of these things. This one gives you all of them — simultaneously.; This is not a back-office reporting role. It's the front line of how a €15 billion company communicates its financial position to the people who fund it. For someone who wants to build deep capital markets credibility from inside a corporate — rather than advising from outside — this is the role.

Requirements

What we're hiring for; You'll typically bring:; Capital markets fluency. You understand how lenders, rating agencies, and institutional equity investors think. You've been on at least one side of these interactions before — origination, advisory, investor relations, leveraged finance, or ratings — and you know what good looks like.; Reporting precision. You are meticulous. Board packs, lender packs, and rating agency presentations leave your hands clean, consistent, and defensible. You spot the error before anyone else does, and you care about the quality of the document as much as the quality of the number.; Narrative skill. Numbers don't speak for themselves. You know how to frame a financial story — what to lead with, what to contextualise, what to leave out — for an audience that reads dozens of these a quarter.; Composure under pressure. Reporting deadlines don't move. Refinancings have signing dates. Rating reviews have fixed windows. You are calm, organised, and reliable when the timeline compresses.; Ownership mindset. You don't wait to be told what the board pack should say. You draft it, you challenge it, you land it. You treat these deliverables as yours — because they are.; A builder's instinct in an AI world. We run on bleeding-edge technology and we expect you to push it further. If there's a faster, more accurate, more automated way to produce a lender pack or build a board report, you find it and make it real.; Relevant experience from one or more of:; Transaction services / Big 4 deal advisory; Investment banking / Corporate finance; Investor relations or corporate development at a PE-backed or publicly listed business; Strategic FP&A with significant investor or lender-facing responsibilities What we care less about; Years of experience — sharpness and standards matter more than tenure; Having done every one of these workstreams before — we'll teach context, but we can't teach judgement; Specific sector experience; A finance degree — if you learned the craft somewhere unconventional but your output is exceptional, we want to hear from you Experience matters less than the standard of work. Unsure whether you qualify? Apply — we'll figure it out together.