Enterprise Architect - Finance Strategy & Technology (Basé à London)

As an Enterprise Architect with deep Finance Strategy & Systems expertise, you will bridge the gap between enterprise technology and financial business objectives. You will design and govern architectures that enable financial transformation, ensuring alignment with CFO priorities. Your domain knowledge will drive the evolution of systems for core Finance platforms, Treasury, FP&A, and Risk systems, while optimizing costs and enabling data-driven decision-making.

The Finance enterprise architect proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities - helping Haleon to achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks.

• Finance-Focused Enterprise Architecture (70%)
  • Financial Systems Strategy: Define Finance strategy and target architectures and blueprints for core finance capabilities (GL, AP/AR, Consolidation, Tax, Treasury) and emerging needs such as AI-driven forecasting.
  • ERP & FinTech Leadership: Lead modernization of core Finance platforms and niche platforms e.g. Cadency. Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
  • Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Architect solutions for SOX, and other mandates ensuring auditability.
  • CFO Advisory: Partner with Finance leadership to translate capital allocation, cost optimization, and M&A strategies into technical roadmaps.
  • Vendor/Partner Evaluation: Assess fintech solutions for fit within the broader finance ecosystem and assist in managing the Vendor relationships.
• Cross-Domain Integration (20%)
  • Design seamless data flows between finance systems and HR (payroll), Supply Chain (costing), and Commercial (revenue recognition) domains. Govern APIs and middleware for real-time financial data sharing.
• Governance & Standards (10%)
  • Enforce finance-specific architecture principles (e.g., single source of truth, closed-loop reconciliation). Champion FinOps practices to align cloud spend with financial accountability.

The Enterprise Architect will demonstrate competencies across five key dimensions.

• Works with Business and Leadership Stakeholders to Develop Strategy.
• Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces.
• Understands the business’s economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide investment decisions.
• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques, and supports formulation of business strategy.
• Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.

• Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner.
• Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues.

• Builds the EA Value Proposition and Structures Business Engagement.
• Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
• Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model.

• Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders.
• Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision.
• Leads a collaborative community of architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts.

• Develops the Business Architecture.
• Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT.
• Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes.
• Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.

• Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes.

• Supports Portfolio Modernization and Develops Roadmaps.
• Maintains the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products.
• Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape.
• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements.

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• Significant professional business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.
• Demonstratable experience focused on finance systems (ERP, EPM, Treasury, etc).
• Proven track record designing architectures for Financial close automation, Regulatory reporting, Treasury & Risk.
• Deep understanding of finance operating models (centralized vs. decentralized) and their tech implications.
• Fluency in finance KPIs (EBITDA, NPV, DSO) and ability to architect systems that improve them.

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, data and predictive analytics.
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric.
• Demonstratable consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.
• Experience with AI/ML in finance (e.g., anomaly detection, predictive AR).

• Analytical, planning and organizational skills.
• Situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise.
• Ability to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions.
• Estimating the financial impact of EA alternatives and applies multiple solutions to business problems.
• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner.
• Professional level written, verbal, communication and presentation skills.

• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
• Comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business executives.
• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
• Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.
• Composed in the face of opposition to architectural principles, governance and standards.
• Practical in approach to problem solving and decision making.