Finance Ops Change Lead — Custody & Asset Control

IG Group; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 223,000 - 391,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance related bonus

Life insurance

Medical insurance for you and your 가족

Earn points on benefits platform

Birthday + volunteering days

Share plans for employees

Lunch in office

Employee assistance program

LinkedIn Learning access

Holiday allowance

Job summary

IG Group in Kraków is seeking a senior Finance Operations Change Lead for a 9-month FTC to oversee custody and client assets projects, including migrations, new custody models, and multi-market products. You will partner with product, cash operations, finance systems and change teams to deliver effective controls and automated processes.

The role focuses on representing Asset Control in asset-related changes, leading UAT, enforcing end-to-end governance, and deputising for the Asset Control

Qualifications

• Significant experience in custody, asset servicing, settlements, and reconciliations within a regulated broker, bank or investment platform.
• Experience of equity settlement, corporate actions and multi-market share dealing.
• Experience of working with project teams on product launches and business change.
• A track record of owning complex issues through to closure, with the confidence to challenge existing practices and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Hands-on experience delivering custody or broker migrations, onboarding new custodians or markets.
• Experience with global brokers or custodians across US, European and APAC markets.
• Experience with reconciliation tools and SQL, Power BI or automation tools.
• Experience leading teams through periods of change.

Responsibilities

• Represent Asset Control in asset-related projects across share dealing, crypto and digital assets, including new custody migrations, new custody models, new markets and new products.
• Assess the impact of each change on reconciliations, settlements, corporate actions, tax and client asset protection, and design new processes to meet requirements.
• Lead Asset Control’s UAT and go-live readiness, and update procedures and controls before go-live.
• Act as Asset Control’s main point of contact for the share dealing, crypto and digital asset product and change teams.
• Own Asset Control’s workstream in the current custody migration through to completion, covering reconciliations, trading and settlements.
• Maintain a single log of migration issues and breaks, lead root‑cause analysis and agree permanent fixes with the broker, Operations and Finance Systems.
• Confirm that new processes, procedures and controls are embedded, and that legacy processes are decommissioned, before the migration is closed.
• Identify the opportunities to transform the day-to-day operations of the team.
• Challenge existing processes where they are manual, inefficient or carry control risk, and implement improvements.
• Act as a point of contact for internal and external auditors.
• Deputise for the Asset Control Manager when required, including periods of absence, covering day-to-day prioritisation, review and sign-off, and escalation to the Head of Financial Operations.
• Coach analysts and build backup for key controls through documentation and cross‑training.
• Build effective working relationships with the CASS team, Cash Control, Hedging Control, Operations, Compliance, Finance Systems and divisional Product teams.

Skills

Custody & asset servicing

Equity settlement & corporate actions

Product launches & business change

Issue ownership & stakeholder impact

Custody migrations & multi-market

Global brokers/custodians experience

Auditing & controls

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Job description

IG Group in Kraków is seeking a senior Finance Operations Change Lead for a 9-month FTC to oversee custody and client assets projects, including migrations, new custody models, and multi-market products. You will partner with product, cash operations, finance systems and change teams to deliver effective controls and automated processes.

The role focuses on representing Asset Control in asset-related changes, leading UAT, enforcing end-to-end governance, and deputising for the Asset Control