Head of Financial Systems

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The Head of Financial Systems will be a results-oriented and technologically driven financial leader responsible for enhancing Metrea's finance processes, systems, data and reporting capabilities as the enterprise scales globally. A core focus will be identifying and delivering AI-driven efficiency, automation and process improvement across Finance, reducing manual activity, strengthening controls and improving the speed, accuracy and quality of financial reporting.

The job governs and maintains financial and operational systems so they remain effective, integrated and fit for purpose, and gives Controlling, Treasury and FP&A the reliable data, tools and processes they need. Working closely with Finance and Platform Technology, the Head of Financial Systems will identify where to simplify, automate and improve reporting and analytics, and will lead financial due diligence in partnership with the Investment function and the post-acquisition integration of finance systems and processes.

The Head of Financial Systems will bring deep finance and operational expertise, real technological fluency and the ability to lead transformation in a complex, fast-scaling global enterprise. Experience in a regulated, government-contracting or aerospace and defence environment is an advantage.

Systems ownership and governance

• Own the Finance systems landscape, with Microsoft D365 at its centre, ensuring it remains effective, integrated and fit for purpose as the enterprise grows
• Set and ensure governance for financial and operational systems: access, change control, master data and integration standards
• Lead new system selection and rollout end to end, from business case through to adoption, and be accountable for the outcome

Process transformation and AI

• Map Finance's data workflows, compliance and reporting frameworks; identify systemic inefficiency and gaps; prioritise and deliver fixes
• Build AI and large language model capability into month-end, reporting and reconciliation processes, with a clear view of where automation strengthens controls and where it introduces risk
• Reduce manual…