Senior Finance Manager - Systems & Data

An exciting opportunity to join our Finance Development team as a Senior Finance Manager – Systems and Data  on a fixed term basis (12 months) based in our Darlington office (hybrid working).

Railpen is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of around £34 billion in assets and the administration of several pension schemes, including the Railways Pension Scheme, one of the UK's largest and longest established pension funds.

Our heritage of looking after the pension needs of the rail industry and its employees gives us our name and our unique outlook on how we serve our members. Railpen takes a holistic view, focusing on how we serve members today and how we can positively impact the communities and the world they will retire into.

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The Senior Finance Manager plays a critical leadership role within the Finance Development function, taking end-to-end accountability for the day-to-day management, development, and optimisation of all finance technology platforms outside of Workday. Working closely with the Head of Finance Development and the Workday Functional Team, this role is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation and strategic alignment of non-Workday systems with the organisation’s financial processes and goals.
In addition, this role serves as the finance systems lead for organisation-level change initiatives, ensuring that finance requirements are embedded in cross-functional transformation programmes and that finance system integrity is maintained throughout change cycles.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with a complex technology architecture, comprising of in-house built applications and off the shelf packages.

You will have previously established frameworks, processes and appropriate controls, for understanding and enabling the continuous improvement and management of systems. Experience of using Financial packages including accounting software and payment systems would be advantageous, but not essential. Knowledge of working with Microsoft technology stack and Workday would also be beneficial.

We are looking for someone who can take ownership and build excellent relationships with key suppliers. You will have significant experience of project delivery, as a key part of the role will be the Finance Technical Lead on the upgrade/migrations of Finance systems and databases, as well as leading on changes to Finance systems needed to support wider business change.

As well as getting involved in the detail, you will play a very important role in the development of the strategic Finance technology roadmap - ensuring short-term decisions are being made with the longer-term requirements for the Finance function in mind, partnering closely with Finance leaders, as well as Technology and Change teams.

Excellent communication skills are key for this role as you will required to present recommendations and solutions to Senior business leaders. Experience of coaching and motivating a high-performing team is also very important.

• A competitive salary

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro rata)

• Defined Contribution pension

• Employee assistance programme

• Health cash plan

• Eye care vouchers

• Flu vaccination

• Give as you earn scheme

• Paid volunteering days

Next Steps

Please apply for the apply button or visit Careers Page by 5pm on 10th April 2026.

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