Strategic Finance Manager

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Strategic Finance Manager Full-timeCompany DescriptionIFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.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 understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realise 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. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.Job DescriptionThe mandateSit beside the CFO of a €15 billion company. Find the problems that matter. Build the case. Drive the change.IFS is approaching €2 billion in revenue and growing more than 20% a year — because we bet earlier and harder on industrial AI than anyone in our category. EQT, Hg, TA Associates, ADIA, and CPP Investments didn't fund incremental software growth. They funded a thesis: the companies that build and run the physical world will run on agentic AI, and on IFS.That thesis generates real decisions — on capital, on structure, on where the business is and isn't working — every quarter. This role exists to find the friction, frame the question, and drive the answer through to something that actually changes.What you'll ownAnswer the unowned questions. Build or buy? Enter this vertical — at what cost, for what return? Where is margin actually made and lost? How far can AI rewire our own cost base? You scope each from a blank page and return with a recommendation that holds up in the room.Identify what's broken and drive it to fixed. You'll carry two or three major cross-functional initiatives at any time — not as a contributor, but as the owner. That means diagnosing the real problem, aligning the right people across the business, and holding accountability for the output. This isn't advisory work. The change happens, or it doesn't, and that's on you.Build the case — and present it. Long-range plan, M&A and partnership analyses, capital allocation, board and investor materials. You'll own the model and the story it tells, and you'll be in the room as it's argued — exposure to the board, shareholders, and prospective investors that most people wait a decade for.Reinvent how the work gets done. We run on bleeding-edge technology — agentic AI, automated modelling, real-time data — and we expect you to push it further. Find what's slow or wrong in how we forecast, report, and decide, and rebuild it. This team should be the proof of what an AI-native finance...