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About the Role
As a Head of Financial Systems, you will shape the future of Mistral’s Finance technology ecosystem by building a modern data, systems, and AI-driven finance department that bridges finance, data, and business operations to drive financial performance and strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Deliver a clear recommendation on the future Finance tech setup, including costs, risks, and a transition roadmap.
- Ensure Finance data is migration-ready by addressing quality issues and defining ownership.
Requirements
- Strong project management skills, from defining vision, strategy, and roadmaps, to stellar 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 implementing architectures (e.g., APIs, workflows, BigQuery, DBT).
- GenAI power user with Vibe coding skills, automation expertise, and experience building scalable, impactful products in a professional context.
- Basic coding skills and software development experience are a strong plus.
- Experience in Finance technology assessment, system selection, and knowledge of tools such as SAP S4H, Kyriba, Lago, Payflows, etc.
- Solid financial knowledge, including experience working alongside finance teams, understanding FP&A, accounting, cash management, and procurement, and a strong interest in driving value through process automation and efficiency.
- Builder and scaler with experience structuring IT systems (preferably in finance), building and scaling IT teams or departments from the ground up, and operating in multicountry environments.
- Proven ability to build tools and processes from scratch to support company growth.
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate data quality, consistency, and relevance.
- Proficiency in prioritization and the use of performance metrics to drive impact.
Skills
- Data architecture
- Data sources
- Pipelines
- Storage
- Transformation
- Metadata management
- APIs
- Workflows
- BigQuery
- DBT
- GenAI
- Vibe coding
- Automation
- Finance technology assessment
- System selection
- SAP S4H
- Kyriba
- Lago
- Payflows
- FP&A
- Accounting
- Cash management
- Procurement
- IT systems structuring
- Analytical skills
- Prioritization
- Performance metrics
Location
- Europe
- North America
- Asia
- Middle East
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Head of Financial Systems
Education Level
- Engineering academic background
- Tier-1 engineering school
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances
About the Company
- Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute.
- We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems—across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector—co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.
- We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society.
- Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation.
- Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.
- We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.