We’re seeking someone to join our team as a Lead Software Developer in Finance Technology to drive the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale SAP finance transformation, building critical reconciliation and control capabilities that ensure financial integrity across systems.
In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Lead Software Engineering position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications and systems that meet business needs through modern engineering practices and technologies.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
What you'll do in the role:
•Design, build, and deliver the Transaction Journals control framework, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and auditability of financial postings.
•Lead the technology integration for the ECC to S/4HANA migration, including system initialization, transaction replay, and automated reconciliation.
•Build reconciliation solutions that account for the consolidation of ECC modules (GL, FA, AP) into a unified S/4HANA model.
•Own the migration of ongoing differences (diff) through go-live and post-go-live phases across SAP releases.
•Develop solutions using Java and/or Python, leveraging GenAI, LLM, and Copilot-style tools across the development lifecycle.
•Partner with SAP functional and finance teams to translate complex business processes and data models into robust technical solutions.
•Provide hands-on technical leadership and manage a team of consultants, including mentoring and work oversight.
•Drive engineering best practices including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and control rigor.
•Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies clearly across technology, finance, and SAP stakeholders.
What you'll bring to the role:
•6+ years of experience in software engineering with hands-on delivery of complex enterprise systems.
•Strong expertise in Java and/or Python development with experience leveraging GenAI, LLMs, or AI-assisted development tools.
•Proven experience in large-scale data migration, integration, and reconciliation, including strong SQL and data modelling skills.
•Ability to quickly understand complex business processes and partner with functional stakeholders.
•Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and managing technical teams and consultants.
•Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
•Experience working with SAP finance data or alongside SAP teams (GL, AP, FA) + Exposure to S/4HANA finance migrations and financial controls frameworks is an asset.
All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.
Knowledge of French and English is required.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering with hands-on delivery of complex enterprise systems
- Strong expertise in Java and/or Python development
- Experience leveraging GenAI, LLMs, or AI-assisted development tools
- Proven experience in large-scale data migration, integration, and reconciliation, including strong SQL and data modelling skills
- Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and managing technical teams and consultants
- Ability to quickly understand complex business processes and partner with functional stakeholders
- Experience working with SAP finance data or alongside SAP teams (GL, AP, FA)
- Exposure to S/4HANA finance migrations and financial controls frameworks
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Knowledge of French and English (bilingual)
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental‑health access, care navigation, and expert second opinions. Convenient primary care access and condition‑specific support reinforce the depth of healthcare coverage.
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What We Do
Morgan Stanley mobilizes capital to help governments, corporations, institutions and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. For over 85 years, the firm’s reputation for using innovative thinking to solve complex problems has been well earned and rarely matched. A consistent industry leader throughout decades of dramatic change in modern finance, Morgan Stanley will continue to break new ground in advising, serving and providing new opportunities for its clients. Morgan Stanley is committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have always defined the firm. At its foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide its more than 60,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 41 countries.
