Senior Financial Systems Manager

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We’re looking for a Senior Financial Systems Manager to join our FP&A team in Montreal. As a Senior Financial Systems Manager within FP&A, you will own Lightspeed's enterprise performance management (EPM) platform end-to-end and act as the primary liaison between Finance and the Data Office, IT, and broader business systems on everything that touches financial planning infrastructure. You will be the technical owner of Pigment, our new planning system, and a hands-on builder driving its architecture, integrations, and evolution. Your responsibilities will include:

What you’ll be doing:

• Platform Ownership: Own Pigment as a system, including data models, calculation logic, dimensional structure, security and access design, version control, and release management. Make the architectural calls that determine how planning works at Lightspeed for years.
  

• Integrations & Data Architecture: Partner with the Data Office on upstream data quality, source system integrations, and the dimensional standards that flow through ERP, EPM, and BI. Own the integrity of how data moves between BigQuery, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, Looker, and Pigment.
  

• Standards & Team Empowerment: Define the technical excellence required for our Pigment environment by creating robust modelling guidelines, scalable patterns, and best-practice implementations. You will also drive team-wide proficiency and confidence through the creation of comprehensive documentation and targeted training programs for FP&A.

• Drive Strategic Impact: Collaborate closely with the Director, FP&A leadership, and senior partners in Finance and Data to convert business requirements into technical platform solutions. You will be instrumental in defining the methodology and influencing the long-term roadmap.

What you need to bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 5+ years of hands-on EPM platform experience, with deep ownership of at least one of Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, etc.

• Track record of leading or anchoring an EPM implementation through go-live.

• Deep fluency in EPM data modelling: dimensional design, calculation logic, allocations, security architecture, and integrations.

• Strong understanding of finance source systems and data flows across ERP, data warehouse, and BI. Direct experience with BigQuery, NetSuite, Workday, Salesforce, or Looker is a strong plus.

• SQL proficiency for diagnosing upstream data issues. Python or scripting experience is a plus.

• Working knowledge of SOX compliance and its implications for financial systems, access reviews, and change management.

• AI fluency. You use LLMs, copilots, and automation tools in your actual workflow, not just as a talking point. Excitement about what's next matters as much as what you already know.

• Comfortable working across vendors, internal IT, and Data Office partners to land complex technical decisions.

• Ability to write clear specs, requirements documents, and technical documentation that holds up under scrutiny.

• Comfort explaining technical tradeoffs to senior finance leaders without losing them in jargon.

• Cross-functional fluency. You've worked across Data, Accounting, IT, and business teams, not just within Finance.

• Bias toward structural thinking. You know when to ship a workaround and when to push back and design it properly.

Nice to haves:

• Fluency in SaaS and payments business mechanics is a plus.

• Pigment Certified Modeler certification or equivalent platform credential.

• Public company finance environment exposure.

• Experience supporting a system migration end-to-end.

• A FP&A foundation, not pure systems administration. You've built or supported revenue models, expense forecasts, headcount plans, or unit economics frameworks and understand why they exist.

Be a changemaker

You’ll enjoy:

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work

• A culture that celebrates performance

• The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard

• Career-defining opportunities

Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.

• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies

• Equity options, because this is your company too

• Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters

• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career

• Health and wellness credit so you feel your best

• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community

• Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams

• Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook

• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families

• We got you covered! A variety of snacks, coffee, and teas are always accessible and available in the office kitchen - Tuesday's- Thursday's: Lunch is served, and Thursday’s is Happy hours with a variety of drinks and snacks

At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skill set, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the total compensation for this position to be in the range of $140,000-180,000k Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.
Please note that this compensation information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within Ontario and reflects the amount Lightspeed is willing to pay at the time of this posting. This role represents an existing vacancy at Lightspeed. Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here?

Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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