Head of Finance Technology

SUMMARY:

The Head of Finance Technology is a senior leadership role within the Global Technology organization, responsible for defining, building, and leading a newly established Finance Technology function. This role owns the end-to-end technology strategy, delivery, and evolution of fund and investment finance and accounting solutions across the firm’s alternative investment platform.

This individual will partner closely with senior Finance leadership, including business unit CFOs and investment finance executives, to ensure that finance technology capabilities enableaccuratereporting, scalable growth, regulatory compliance, andtimelydecision-making. The role is accountable forsettingthe finance technology roadmap, translating complex business requirements into modern, resilient technology solutions, and ensuring alignment across business and technology leadership.

The ideal candidate brings a rare blend of deep finance domainexpertiseand strong engineering capability, with hands-on experience across asset management finance, fund accounting, and modern technology architecture. This leader will build and manage a global team of business analysts and product managers, whileoperatingas a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and a hands-on driver of transformation.

Reporting relationships
 

Reports to:Partner,Head of Operations, Finance & M&A Technology

Supervises:GlobalFinanceTechnologyTeam

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS & ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Finance & Fund Accounting Technology Ownership

• Establish and own the enterprise-wide Finance Technology strategy and multi-year roadmap for fund and investment finance and accounting, aligned with firm-wide technology and businessobjectives.

• Serve as the senior technology counterpart to Finance leadership, including business unit CFOs, providing thought leadership, transparency, and clear articulation of trade-offs and priorities.

• Partner with Technology and Finance leadership to frame, prioritize, and sequence initiatives that balance regulatory requirements, operational stability, and innovation.

• Own all technology solutions supporting fund and investment finance and accounting, across public and private credit, private equity, and other alternative asset classes.

• Provide deep domain leadership across fund accounting processes, including NAV calculation, capital activity, allocations, waterfalls, fee calculations, and financial reporting.

• Oversee platforms supporting fund accounting and investment finance, with strong familiarity with industry solutions such as Geneva (or comparable platforms).

• Partner closely with internal teams and external fund administrators to ensure seamless data exchange, clear ownership models, and strong operational controls.
  

Delivery & Roadmap Execution

• Establish strong product management and delivery practices, including prioritization, dependency management, and stakeholder communication.

• Own delivery outcomes across finance technology initiatives, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and alignment with business expectations.

• Drive the ongoing implementation and expansion of Anaplan for fund waterfall modeling and related financial use cases, ensuring scalability and alignment with Finance needs.

• Identifyand drive opportunities to automatefinanceworkflows, reduce manual processing, and improvethetimeliness and accuracy of financial outputs.

• Assess and pilot emerging technologies, including AI-enabled analytics, workflow automation, and agentic capabilities, to enhance finance operations and decision support.

Engineering, Architecture & Integration Leadership

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, drawing on prior software engineering experience to guide architecture, design patterns, and implementation approaches.

• Ensure finance technology solutionsleveragemodern architectures and frameworks, including API-driven integration, event-based patterns, and cloud-native services whereappropriate.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Data, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure solutions meet standards for performance, resiliency, security, and compliance.

• Champion best practices for data integration, reconciliation, and lineage across internal systems and external service providers.
  

Stakeholder Engagement &Communication

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior Finance leaders, investment teams, and Technology peers, with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical and financial concepts.

• Facilitate effective governance forums, steering committees, and working groups to ensure alignment andtimelydecision-making.

• Build strong partnerships with external vendors, software providers, and fund administrators.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing global Finance Technology organization with clear roles, accountability, and career paths.

• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, ora related field.

• Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.

Experience Required 

• 12+ years of progressive experience across technology leadership roles, with significant exposure to asset management or financial services.

• Demonstrated experience leading Finance Technology, Investment Accounting Technology, or closely related functions within alternative asset management.

• Strong under