FP&A Architect

Role Overview

The Finance Information Architect will lead the definition of the programme’s finance ontology, information structures and architecture, ensuring that Finance has a consistent, well-governed and sustainable foundation for planning, forecasting, reporting and decision-making.

What You Will Do

The role combines two areas of responsibility: 70% — Finance information ontology and architecture, and 30% — Anaplan implementation support. The successful candidate will bridge Finance business requirements and technical delivery, ensuring that immediate implementation decisions support the programme’s longer-term objectives.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The successful candidate will combine strong finance architecture and modelling expertise with practical Anaplan implementation experience and familiarity with model development. They will bridge Finance business requirements and technical delivery, ensuring that immediate implementation decisions support the programme’s longer-term objectives.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in finance information architecture, modelling or finance transformation.
• Strong understanding of finance processes, including planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
• Demonstrable experience defining finance business concepts, dimensions, hierarchies and relationships across multiple systems.
• Ability to develop conceptual and logical models and translate them into practical implementation requirements.
• Practical experience working on Anaplan implementations, with familiarity with model development and the relationship between finance architecture and model design.
• Working knowledge of Anaplan lists, hierarchies, modules, line items and dimensionality, sufficient to engage confidently with model builders and assess proposed designs.
• Experience with information integration, source-to-target mapping, master and reference information, quality controls and financial reconciliation.
• Experience defining current-state and target architectures and developing achievable transition roadmaps.
• Ability to facilitate workshops, resolve conflicting definitions and secure agreement across Finance and Technology.
• Ability to guide technical delivery teams, identify architectural implications and make trade-offs explicit.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with a pragmatic approach to delivery.
• Ability to operate as the Finance authority on finance information architecture, working collaboratively with central Technology and specialist teams while maintaining clear Finance ownership.

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