AI Solutions Lead

Overview

This is a 6 months contract, offering up to approx €10,700 per month (before tax) – 40hrs/week. The shorlisted candidates will be contacted ASAP. Due to the high volume of applicants, we may be unable to reply to each applicant individually.

Join a leading global technology company that is revolutionizing its industry through innovation and cutting-edge solutions. This organization is committed to driving efficiency and leveraging advanced technologies to optimize its core operations. We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on AI Solutions Lead to make a significant impact by accelerating the practical adoption of AI across critical finance processes. In this pivotal role, you will not just advise, but actively build and implement AI-enabled workflows, transforming manual activities into scalable, intelligent solutions that directly enhance productivity, accuracy, and strategic decision-making within a complex financial environment. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the future of finance operations and delivering tangible value to the organization.

This is a unique opportunity for a technical problem solver with a deep understanding of finance operations and a passion for leveraging modern AI tools. You will be at the forefront of identifying opportunities, prototyping solutions, and driving the successful integration of AI into daily finance work, collaborating closely with stakeholders across various departments.

**What You’ll Do**

* **Identify and build high-value AI use cases**
* Review core finance workflows to pinpoint manual, repetitive, and error-prone activities ripe for AI improvement.
* Translate business challenges into clear use cases, solution concepts, prototypes, and comprehensive rollout plans.
* Develop or support lightweight prototypes, copilots, prompt-based workflows, agents, and automation solutions using approved AI tools and platforms.
* Utilize modern AI development tools and coding assistants to accelerate experimentation and solution design.
* Collaborate with finance stakeholders to refine requirements and validate solutions against real business needs.
* Prioritize use cases based on value, risk, complexity, and scalability.
* **Embed AI into day-to-day finance work**
* Integrate AI-enabled methodologies into drafting, reconciliations, reporting, issue triage, variance analysis, documentation, and other finance activities.
* Create practical playbooks, standard prompts, use case libraries, and operating guidance for teams.
* Support teams in transitioning from manual execution to AI-supported workflows, ensuring accountability and control.
* Conduct workshops, demos, training sessions, and office hours to boost adoption and confidence.
* **Partner across business and technical teams**
* Serve as a vital link between process owners and technical teams, translating finance challenges into practical solutions.
* Collaborate with technology, engineering, product, and transformation teams to test, refine, and scale successful pilots.
* Help define requirements, test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
* Bring both business acumen and technical fluency to ensure solutions are useful and usable.
* **Drive measurable impact**
* Define success metrics and track outcomes such as time saved, capacity created, cycle time improvements, reduced manual effort, and quality gains.
* Build clear business cases to support the scaling of successful solutions.
* Communicate progress, value delivered, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders concisely and practically.
* **Ensure governance and responsible use**
* Design solutions with appropriate controls, documentation, and validation steps.
* Ensure alignment with regulatory, audit, data security, and internal risk requirements.
* Partner with Risk and Compliance stakeholders to support responsible AI adoption.
* Establish clear human-in-the-loop review mechanisms where necessary.

**What We’re Looking For**

**Must-Have Qualifications**
* Professional experience, with demonstrated experience building or implementing AI-enabled solutions in business environments.
* Strong technical fluency with modern AI tools, coding assistants, and ways of working, including AI-assisted development environments.
* Hands-on experience with AI tools, copilots, agents, workflow automation, or prompt-based solutions.
* Ability to move quickly from idea to prototype to user adoption.
* Experience working across cross-functional teams and driving execution from concept through adoption.
* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
* Comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning loosely defined problems into structured solutions.
* Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate independently.
* Proactive, independent, and focused on measurable outcomes.
* Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Interest in finance operations and the ability to work effectively in a controlled environment.

**Nice-to-Have Qualifications**
* Experience in finance, financial technology, finance transformation, process excellence, or enterprise operations.
* Familiarity with finance processes such as Close/RTR, reconciliations, intercompany, reporting, controls, and issue management.
* Experience with workflow automation, scripting, low-code/no-code tools, or lightweight software development.
* Understanding of regulatory, audit, and control environments.
* Experience building business cases tied to productivity, quality, and risk reduction.
* Exposure to Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, or program delivery disciplines.

**Why This Opportunity?**

This role offers an unparalleled chance to shape how AI is applied in a complex financial environment where efficiency, control, and scalability are paramount. You will solve real operational problems, work closely with business teams, and leverage modern AI tools to create practical, impactful results. Success in this role means AI is seamlessly embedded into daily finance workflows, manual effort is significantly reduced, and high-value use cases are identified, tested, and scaled effectively. You will empower teams with reusable playbooks and prompts, delivering measurable improvements across productivity, cycle time, quality, and controls, ultimately becoming a trusted partner to both finance and technical teams.