Domain Architect - Corporate Functions

The Corporate Functions Domain Architect is a Senior Architecture role within Digital & Technology (D&T), accountable for shaping and governing the end‑to‑end architecture across Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal and Corporate Affairs. As an Architect with deep expertise in Finance and Corporate Technologies, this role bridges enterprise technology and critical business objectives across corporate functions, working closely with CFO, CHRO, CPO, General Counsel and Corporate Affairs leadership teams.

The role designs, governs and evolves architectures that enable enterprise wide transformation, ensuring technology investments are aligned to strategic outcomes such as cost optimisation, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, reputation management and data‑driven decision‑making. The Corporate Functions Domain Architect operates proactively and holistically, guiding leaders, product managers, product owners and delivery teams through modernisation, simplification and optimisation initiatives, while working in close partnership with the ERP Domain Architect and other Domain Architects to drive a coherent, streamlined enterprise architecture anchored on fewer, more strategic global platforms and end‑to‑end process and outcome thinking.

Role purpose: To define, govern and evolve architectures for Corporate Functions, ensuring technology choices enable simplified, compliant, integrated and outcome‑driven business operations, aligned to Haleon’s enterprise strategy. To lead architecture within the Corporate Domain, managing and assuring Solution Architecture within the Domain.

• Key accountabilities:
• Architecture strategy for Finance, Corporate Functions and Corporate Affairs
• Translation of corporate strategy into target architectures and roadmaps
• Close alignment with the ERP Domain Architect for SAP and Finance‑related architecture
• Cross‑domain coherence with other Domain Architects
• Reduction of complexity through convergence on strategic global platforms
• End‑to‑end process and outcome‑centric architecture design
• Governance of architectural standards, principles and guardrails
• Executive‑level advisory to Corporate Function leadership
• Leading and assuring Solution Architecture within the Corporate Domain

Key responsibilities:

• Corporate Functions & Corporate Affairs Domain Architecture
• Define domain strategies and target architectures across: Finance (GL, AP/AR, Consolidation, Tax, Treasury), HR (HCM, Payroll, Talent, Workforce Planning), Legal (eBilling, Matter Management, Contract Lifecycle Management), Procurement (Sourcing, P2P, Supplier Management), Corporate Affairs (Issues & Crisis Management, Communications, External Engagement, Reporting and Controls)
• Architect solutions that enable: Financial close automation and transparency; Integrated hire‑to‑retire and procure‑to‑pay processes; Risk, compliance and reputational governance; Data‑driven insight and reporting
• Ensure architectures support both centralised and federated operating models.

ERP & SAP Alignment (In Partnership with ERP Domain Architect):

• Work closely and continuously with the ERP Domain Architect on all SAP / Finance‑related architecture decisions.
• Ensure Finance processes and capabilities implemented in SAP align with: Business architecture; End‑to‑end process design; Wider Corporate Functions and Commercial integration needs
• Jointly shape ERP roadmaps that balance standardisation, flexibility and long‑term sustainability.

Strategic Platform Convergence & Simplification:

• Drive architectural decisions that reduce fragmentation and complexity across Corporate Functions.
• Actively steer the landscape towards a smaller number of strategic, global platforms, avoiding proliferation of niche solutions.
• Ensure platform choices optimise: Cost, Integration, Data consistency, Operational resilience.
• Challenge duplication and local optimisation that undermines outcomes.

Executive Architecture Advisory:

• Act as a trusted architecture advisor to CFO, CHRO, CPO, General Counsel and Corporate Affairs leaders.
• Translate functional strategies for capital allocation, workforce planning, sourcing, compliance and reputation management into integrated architecture roadmaps.
• Visualise future states to enable long‑term planning, investment trade‑offs and transformation sequencing.

Cross‑Domain Integration & End‑to‑End Process Architecture:

• Partner with other Domain Architects (Commercial, QSC/R&D, Technology) to ensure: Seamless end‑to‑end business processes; Coherent data flows; Design and govern integration patterns across: Finance HR (payroll, workforce costs); Finance Procurement (AP, spend, suppliers); Finance Legal (contracts, accruals, compliance); Finance Corporate Affairs (risk, controls, reporting).
• Enable a single source of truth and outcome‑driven architecture.

Regulatory, Risk & Compliance Architecture:

• Ensure architectures embed regulatory and compliance requirements including: SOX; GDPR and data privacy; Corporate governance and auditability.
• Design security‑ and privacy‑by‑design architectures across all Corporate Functions.

Architecture Governance & Standards:

• Enforce architecture principles including: Single source of truth; Privacy by design; Closed‑loop reconciliation; Standard‑first, customise‑last.
• Define and apply minimum viable architectures, reference patterns and guardrails.
• Champion FinOps and TechOps practices to align SaaS and cloud spend to measurable business value.

Portfolio, Delivery & Transformation Enablement:

• Maintain architectural alignment across programmes, products and platforms.
• Support portfolio modernisation through gap analysis and transition roadmaps.
• Collaborate with product and delivery teams to ensure architecture accelerates delivery and improves outcomes, rather than constraining execution.

Architecture Community & Ways of Working:

• Actively contribute to the architecture community across D&T.
• Promote reuse, shared standards and architectural consistency.
• Position architecture as a value‑driven internal consultancy.

What good looks like:

• Corporate Functions technology is simplified, integrated and strategic
• SAP Finance architecture is aligned and standardised
• Fewer platforms deliver more value end‑to‑end
• Business leaders understand trade‑offs, roadmaps and future states
• Data is trusted, compliant and decision‑ready
• Architecture consistently drives outcomes, not siloed optimisation

Qualifications & experience:

• Extensive experience in leading and assuring solution architecture
• Deep experience in Finance systems (ERP, EPM, Treasury)
• Experience across HR, Legal, Procurement and/or Corporate Affairs platforms
• Proven experience architecting: End‑to‑end Finance processes; Hire‑to‑Retire and Procure‑to‑Pay; Contract Lifecycle Management; Risk, Compliance and Governance platforms
• Strong fluency in financial and operational KPIs
• Ability to communicate at levels of the organisation from Executive leaders to technical SME’s

Preferred:

• Experience working alongside ERP / SAP Domain Architects
• Experience driving platform convergence and simplification strategies
• Familiarity with AI/ML use cases across corporate functions
• Experience operating in large, regulated environments

Skills & capabilities:

• Business architecture mastery
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Ability to connect strategy to execution
• Executive‑level influencing and consulting capability
• Comfort operating across ambiguity and complex trade‑offs

Equal Opportunities:

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.