Strategic Finance Manager

Responsibilities

• Answer 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.
• Why it's rare
• Who we're hiring
• We're hiring for one thing above all: the ability to take a question you've never seen, with messy data and real money riding on it, and make real progress in hours. You break problems down, find the load-bearing assumption, and pressure-test your own logic before anyone else can.
• You'll also bring:
• Force of personality. You move people and things. You don't wait for permission to own a problem, and you don't let organisational drag become an excuse for inaction.
• Crazy ambition. You're not here for a tidy career step. You want to build something that matters, at a scale most people never touch, and you're impatient to start.
• A builder's instinct in an AI world. You don't just use the new tools, you invent with them. You see where agentic AI changes what's possible and you go make it real.
• Quantitative intuition. Fluent in the numbers, and faster to sense when one is wrong. You reason from first principles, not from a model you don't understand.
• Clarity under ambiguity. You hold open-ended problems without freezing and land the answer crisply, to people making nine-figure calls.
• Judgment. Your analysis stays honest when the answer is inconvenient, and discreet when it's sensitive.
• You do not need finance experience. No finance degree, no FP&A, no banking, no specific tool. We'll teach you the finance. We can't teach the thinking - so we don't try.
• Levelling
• Analyst (~0-4 yrs): own analyses and models end-to-end with senior guidance, and scale your scope fast.
• Manager (~4-8 yrs): own whole decision areas and cross-functional projects, set the approach, and partner directly with the CFO.
• Experience matters less than the thinking. Unsure which you are? Apply - we'll figure it out together

Additional Information

The mandate Sit 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.

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