Head of Financial Data and Systems

Head of Financial Data and Systems

About the Role
Job ID: 301772
Location: Romania, Bucuresti, Bucharest
Remote vs. Office: Hybrid (Remote/Office)
Company: Siemens Energy S.r.l.
Organization: SE CFO
Business Unit: Wind Power
Full / Part time: Full-time
Experience Level: Manager / Team Leader

A Snapshot of Your Day
As the Head of Financial Data and Systems, you will lead a specialized team responsible for the entire financial data landscape within the Wind Power division. This role is pivotal in driving our digital finance vision by interconnecting all financial and finance-relevant data and systems, thereby empowering the finance community with robust, accessible, and reliable data products. You will be responsible for both people leadership and technical-strategic direction. This includes managing a team of experienced data professionals, fostering their growth, and enhancing their financial domain knowledge. Concurrently, you will own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of our financial data platforms, including our Azure-based environment and core data warehousing solutions. This involves translating business needs into scalable technical solutions and ensuring the stability and performance of the underlying infrastructure. Success in this role requires bridging the gap between finance and technology. You will lead data governance for the finance domain, own the development of a central data products service, and champion data literacy across the business. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading technical data teams, deep expertise in data architecture and engineering within an enterprise context, and a strong ability to collaborate with and influence diverse stakeholders to foster a data-driven culture.

How You Will Make an Impact
- Own the end-to-end intake and delivery of enhancement requests for financial data systems, translating business needs into clear, deliverable features.
- Provide technical oversight and architecture-level direction, ensuring solutions are designed for scalability, reusability, and resilience across the full system landscape.
- Manage and oversee core platform backend resources, including the Azure environment, Git repositories, and Azure DevOps, to ensure stability and operational readiness.
- Lead DevOps planning and delivery management, including running planning sessions and refining acceptance criteria to ensure the development team can execute efficiently.
- Lead and mentor a team of experienced data professionals through regular coaching, 1:1s, and performance management to foster a high-performance culture.
- Create and support practical development paths for technical staff within a finance organization, enabling hands-on learning and targeted experience-building.
- Drive finance upskilling across the technical team by embedding financial understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and planning into delivery conversations.
- Plan, prioritize, and direct team responsibilities, ensuring alignment with departmental policies and achievement of short-term (1-year) strategic goals.
- Lead data engineering and governance activities for the digital finance domain, applying enterprise data governance frameworks to ensure compliance and quality.
- Own and operate the central Community Data Pool (CDP) as the primary data products service for finance-relevant data.
- Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to ensure seamless data availability and proactive alignment on infrastructure changes, such as tenant migrations or capacity upgrades.
- Promote data literacy and steward engagement across the finance community to support a culture of data-driven decision-making.

What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field is required; an advanced degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, or AI is a plus.
- Extensive experience in data architecture, data engineering, or a similar role, with deep expertise in data strategy and governance within an enterprise environment.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional data initiatives and manage a team of experienced technical professionals, developing talent and fostering a data-first mindset.
- Strong leadership and communication capabilities, including stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills, conflict resolution, coaching and mentoring, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive audiences while balancing strategic thinking with operational execution.
- Proficiency in data engineering and modern data platforms, including data engineering, data integration, data modeling, data lakes, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and relational databases to support scalable data solutions, efficient data processing, and trusted business insights.
- Experience in data governance and quality management, including data governance, data security, and process improvement to ensure data integrity, compliance, operational efficiency, and trusted business insights.

About the Team
Wind Power division is part of Siemens Energy, a global leader in energy technology with a rich legacy of innovation spanning over 150 years. Together, we are committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. As a leading player in the wind industry and manufacturer of wind turbines, we are passionate about driving the energy transition and providing innovative solutions that meet the growing energy demand of the global community.

Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our cross-border team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Office
Siemens Energy's location in One Cotroceni Park is more than just an office space - it's a hub for a dynamic and growing community. Nestled in the heart of Bucharest, this urban development is the perfect place work, surrounded by green spaces, shopping destinations, and everything the city center has to offer. And with the Academia Militara subway station just a 3-minute walk away, getting around the city has never been easier.

Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is supported by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working environment (office and/or home).
- Flexible work schedules guarantee a good work life balance.
- Continuous professional and personal development opportunities.
- Be in an international and open-minded team.
- Reasonable training plan for the starting period.
- Your lunch with SE meal tickets
- Keep your brain fit with our trainings
- Special for books lovers - Bookster
- Stay safe and balanced with our medical subscription
- Think about your future too with Private Pension Pilon III
- Look after yourself with our Wellbeing Initiative