Data Architect (Consulting) in City of London

This role exists to own and elevate the company’s internal data and systems landscape end-to-end. The Finance/Revenue data modeller is accountable for ensuring that core operational, commercial, and finance systems support automation and AI-enabled workflows. The role sits at the intersection of systems architecture and commercial insight:

• ~50% building, architecting, and continuously improving the data and systems stack.
• ~50% analysing performance, trends, and forecasts, and partnering with leadership to drive action.

Key responsibilities include:

• Projects, delivery, timesheeting, and forecasting.
• CRM and pipeline management.
• Finance, billing, and revenue recognition.
• The data model and integrations that connect them into a coherent operating platform.
• Improve data consistency, definitions, and governance across systems.
• Reduce manual work, reconciliation, and spreadsheet dependency.
• A significant portion of the systems landscape is mid-implementation or being re-architected; this role will play a hands-on part in design, configuration, and rollout.
• Designing and maintaining a clean, scalable data architecture across tools.
• Driving a continuous improvement roadmap, rather than one-off projects.
• Quality and timeliness of data.
• Use of AI to support workflows, forecasting, and analysis.
• Makes pragmatic trade-offs between speed, robustness, and long-term scalability.

A core part of the role is turning data into insight, not just managing systems:

• Revenue forecasting and pipeline analysis.
• Identifying gaps between forecast, delivery, billing, and cash.
• Analysing customer and project profitability.
• Highlighting trends in utilisation, billing performance, and delivery efficiency.
• Identifying where performance is drifting.
• Surfacing risks and opportunities early.

Experience required:

• Working with business-critical systems and data, ideally spanning finance, sales, and operations.
• Hands-on exposure to ERP, finance, CRM, project management, or analytics platforms, with the ability to understand how they fit together end-to-end.
• Familiarity with tools such as NetSuite, CCH Tagetik, CRM systems, reporting/BI tools, workflow automation platforms (e.g. Zapier), and relational databases (e.g. Azure-hosted databases) is highly beneficial.
• Strong understanding of data models, integrations, and data flows, with the ability to diagnose issues and design pragmatic improvements.
• Comfortable working with reporting and analytics to produce forecasting, performance, and profitability insights, rather than purely operational reports.
• An interest in, or early experience with, automation and AI-enabled workflows, and how these can be applied to real business problems.
• Able to translate business questions into data structures, analysis, and clear outputs that support decision-making.

You are highly organised and able to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously, balancing implementation, improvement, and analysis. You are motivated by ownership, responsibility, and the opportunity to grow into a broader, more senior role over time.

Headquartered in London, VantagePoint is a global finance transformation and technology consultancy that has rapidly grown from a company of five to a company of more than 120 in just five years. Our innovative team of experts work with clients all over the world and we aim to ensure that every individual is given the opportunity to thrive and progress within their career. We’re passionate about improving the finance function and the value it creates for the organisations we partner with.

We empower people to strive for more, challenge and take risks. We are passionate about building strong partnerships.

In addition to being an integral part of a boutique consultancy and an attractive salary, we offer a significant benefits package including:

• Up to 10% matched pension contribution
• Performance bonus, increasing with length of service
• Share scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life cover
• Hybrid working, giving you the chance to decide which days to come into the office
• Free travel to the office
• Gym allowance or wellbeing allowance
• Monthly phone bill
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee referral bonus.