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About the Role
Thought Machine is seeking a Finance Systems Engineering Manager to report to the Group Finance Director. This role sits at the intersection of accounting logic, systems architecture, and Generative AI, focusing on process improvements, system maintenance, and supporting the Finance function using Workday Financials. The goal is to eliminate manual processes, ensure reliable data, automate processes, and provide fast, meaningful reporting, treating the entire Finance stack as a machine for seamless scaling.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary System Administrator for Workday Financials, driving end-to-end platform optimization, exploiting AI, and driving new features/functionality adoption.
- Prioritize and manage incoming change requests and support tickets in collaboration with related teams.
- Ensure reporting for management and statutory purposes aligns with the latest accounting standards and business structure.
- Review existing business processes, recommend improvements, reduce complexity, automate manual workflows, and drive AI-led change.
- Produce technical playbooks, end-user documentation, and training initiatives.
- Actively participate in the Workday Community to leverage best practices and influence product roadmaps.
- Ensure current integrations are compliant and improved.
- Contribute to future projects including a new shares tool, banking partner integrations, updating security user groups, consolidating payroll providers, and a new FP&A tool.
- Enforce strict segregation of duties processes and system audit trails for audit readiness and compliant integrations/renewals.
- Oversee ongoing maintenance, vendor relationships, and SLAs for all 3rd-party system integrators.
Requirements
- Workday Financial knowledge and experience, including WD expenses module, and integrations for Banks, FX, and others.
- Demonstrated engineering excellence, coding, processing understanding, and redesigning capabilities.
- Ability to collaborate across various teams within Finance and the wider organization, including People, Engineering, and Security.
- Experience in systems implementation, configuration, development, and support.
- Proficiency in business process analysis with a flexible approach and willingness to constructively challenge existing practices.
- A passion for providing an excellent end-user experience and automation.
- AI-Curiosity: understanding of how to prompt LLMs, use APIs, and excitement about deploying AI agents to replace repetitive human processes.
- Self-motivating and comfortable in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment with competing deadlines.
- Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver desired outcomes.
- Advanced Excel, database, and programming skills.
- Accounting knowledge, potentially as a Part Qualified or Qualified Finance professional.
- Experience in a Systems role within an SME enterprise.
- Previous experience within the software SaaS industry.
Skills
- Workday Financials
- Generative AI
- AI
- LLMs
- APIs
- Excel
- Database Management
- Programming
- Business Process Analysis
- Systems Implementation
- Systems Configuration
- Systems Development
- Systems Support
- Integrations Management
- Reporting
- Automation
Location
- Lisbon
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
Education Level
- Part Qualified or Qualified Finance professional (Desirable)
Benefits
- Industry's most generous employee share package
About the Company
- Thought Machine's mission is to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology by developing core and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud.
- The company has grown rapidly to over 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney, and Lisbon.
- Raised over £500m in funding from investors including Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, and Standard Chartered Ventures.
- Fostered a culture that enables team members to produce their best work while having fun.
- Recognized for fantastic workplace culture, high Glassdoor ratings, and innovative fintech status.
- Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine.
- Recognized by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years and a UK Best Employer for 2026.
Equal Opportunity
- Actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development.
- Encourage applications even if experience doesn't perfectly match the job description.
- Encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, or dyspraxia.