Engineering Manager - Financial Controlling / Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Join H&M Tech and shape the digital backbone of Finance.

The role sits within the Finance Area in the Corporate domain, where we combine business expertise and modern technology to build scalable, compliant and efficient solutions for core finance processes.

The role is dedicated to one product: Financial Controlling/Financial Planning & Analysis, which enables fast, reliable and transparent financial steering for Controlling, the CFO and CIO Offices, Accounting and Store Management. It covers financial reporting and analytics, daily turnover follow-up, planning and forecasting, and tech finance data, cost transparency and allocation.

As Engineering Manager, you will lead the product’s technical delivery and operations. You will partner with the Product Manager, who owns the roadmap, and work closely with Controlling, architecture and engineering teams to turn complex needs into reliable digital solutions. You’ll lead through technology, direction and collaboration, not through direct staff responsibility.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

You will lead the product across three delivery teams of H&M engineers, consultants and business experts:

• Supporting financial reporting, analytics and daily turnover

• Supporting planning, forecasting and investment planning

• Supporting Tech Financial – tech finance data, cost transparency and allocation

Delivery and roadmap

• Lead end-to-end technical delivery, from financial data and reporting to planning and tech cost transparency.

• Partner with the Product Manager and Finance stakeholders on roadmap, priorities and releases, bringing technical feasibility and trade-off insights.

• Ensure the teams have the right skills, capacity and partners to deliver on agreed priorities.

• Own delivery quality across initiatives, continuous improvement (CI) and run, including timely execution of prioritized features and epics.

• Ensure solutions are well documented, with AI readability and automation in mind.

Operational excellence

• Be accountable for the product’s health, monitoring, stability, security and scalability, including incident handling in key periods such as budget and forecast cycles.

• Champion data quality and trusted, consistent financial data.

• Drive simplification, automation and continuous improvement in line with tech strategy, architecture standards and engineering guardrails.

• Follow up delivery and performance KPIs, and proactively manage risks, dependencies and technical debt.

Technical leadership

• Set technical direction for a landscape that currently combines cloud-native solutions in Microsoft Azure with SaaS platforms such as Anaplan and Apptio.

• Uphold engineering standards across architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, security and compliance, balancing delivery speed with technical health and long-term scalability.

• Work with solution and enterprise solution architects and lead engineers on solution design, ensuring coherence with adjacent products and the long-term target state.

Collaboration, partners and financial accountability

• Act as the main tech contact for the product, working closely with the Product Manager, Controlling and other Finance stakeholders.

• Collaborate with other tech functions, such as platform, data and AI teams, to solve cross-domain challenges.

• Own collaboration with vendors and service providers, including SaaS and managed service contracts, to ensure short- and long-term stability.

• Be accountable for the product’s tech costs (budget, actuals and forecast), with a focus on cost efficiency and total cost of ownership.

• Share clear updates on status, progress, risks and dependencies.

Team and culture

• Build a high-performing, inclusive and psychologically safe culture across the teams.

• Coach engineers and partners to grow and perform and drive continuous improvement in ways of working and engineering practices.

• Plan and contribute to team development together with other Engineering Managers and Competence Managers.

WHO YOU ARE

You are an engineering leader who combines technical depth, delivery focus and collaboration. You enjoy working close to the business and know that trusted data and stable solutions come from engineering discipline, learning and simplification.

• Experience as a senior software engineer and/or in technical solution leadership, with several years in senior or lead roles leading teams through major deliveries.

• Experience leading technical delivery in a product-oriented environment, in close partnership with product and business.

• Solid understanding of architecture, scalable design, cloud fundamentals and modern engineering practices such as agile, DevOps and CI/CD.

• A DevOps mindset and a track record of building and running stable products, including RUN, delivery, security, monitoring and incident management.

• Comfortable with complex business processes, ideally within finance, controlling, planning, reporting, analytics or regulated environments. Experience with data warehousing, BI or planning platforms such as Anaplan is a plus.

• Financial acumen and experience managing tech budgets and forecasts, as well as vendors, consultants and SaaS partners.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without formal people management responsibility.

• Clear, collaborative and pragmatic — you balance speed, quality, risk and long-term value, and turn complexity into action.

• A genuine drive to lead, develop and build strong teams and culture.

• Curious about how technology, automation, data and AI can create better experiences and decisions.

At H&M Tech, you’ll help build the finance capabilities that keep the business moving, creating solutions that are simple, scalable and ready for what’s next.

WHO WE ARE

H&M Group is a global company with strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.

We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values.