Group Financial Systems Architect

ISP Group Financial Systems Architect Role Profile

The Group Financial Systems Architect will be responsible for designing, shaping, and evolving the end‑to‑end financial systems landscape across the organisation, ensuring it is scalable, efficient and interoperable.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Systems Architecture & Strategy

• Define, own and continuously evolve the current and target-state financial systems architecture across Finance, Planning, Treasury, Tax, Reporting, and Business Intelligence.
• Ensure interoperability and seamless integration across finance systems, planning tools, treasury, tax, reporting platforms, and wider business systems.
• Act as the Group’s subject matter expert on financial systems design, not limited to NetSuite or any single ERP platform.
• Establish and maintain architectural standards, principles, and documentation, including current-state, target-state, and transition roadmaps.
• Drive architectural data strategy, including Master Data Management (MDM), data quality standards, and data ownership models across all financial systems and integrated third‑party applications.
• Lead financial systems digital modernisation initiatives, including the responsible application of automation and AI across finance‑related systems.

Systems Implementation & Optimisation

• Lead or advise on the implementation of a suite of financial solutions, ensuring they meet the needs of a complex, multi‑entity organisation.
• Improve efficiency, scalability, and data integrity within the existing financial systems environment (including NetSuite and layered solutions).
• Act as architectural authority and gateway for all finance systems changes, ensuring alignment with standards, target architecture, and compliance requirements.
• Define and enforce solutioning standards, change control documentation, and best practices for system enhancements, onboarding of new tools, BAU changes, and decommissioning.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure all financial systems and integrated third‑party applications meet legislative, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• Own governance frameworks covering system access controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, data quality, and compliance.
• Serve as system and data governance authority, balancing control, usability, and scalability.

Listed‑Company Readiness

• Anticipate regulatory, reporting, and governance requirements associated with listed‑company or IPO readiness and ensure systems architecture can support these needs effectively.

Change, Intake & Stakeholder Leadership

• Act as a senior partner to Finance leadership, Group stakeholders, and executive teams, translating business needs into robust system and architectural solutions.
• Operate and oversee the intake, prioritisation, and governance process for all finance systems change, including new initiatives, enhancements, onboarding, and BAU activity.
• Support and guide system‑related change initiatives across the organisation with autonomy and credibility.
• Provide clear architectural direction and recommendations without close supervision, confidently influencing senior leaders.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Proven experience implementing and architecting a suite of financial systems (ERP, planning, reporting, treasury, tax) within complex, multi‑entity, international organisations.
• Strong financial systems architecture background, operating independently of any single vendor or platform (not limited to NetSuite).
• Experience with NetSuite or similar ERP platforms.
• Exposure to IPO preparation, listed‑company environments, or public‑company transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a senior individual contributor, owning solutions end‑to‑end.
• Strong strategic and architectural thinking combined with attention to detail.
• Ability to define, govern, and evolve data architecture, MDM, and digital capabilities across finance systems.
• Experience driving modernisation initiatives, including automation and AI, within finance or systems‑heavy environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving change in evolving environments.
• Independent, credible, and confident working with senior leaders.