Insurance Finance Architect

We are seeking an experienced Finance Architect to define and shape finance architecture within a large life and pensions business operating in a highly regulated environment. The role will align finance accounting, controls, reporting, and target-platform requirements, translating finance and regulatory needs into end-to-end solution designs.

The successful candidate will assure data flows, controls, and integration with the wider architecture, working closely with business SMEs, security, data, engineering, and operations teams to evaluate options, document decisions, and assure detailed designs. The detailed design solution must be scalable, supportable, compliant, and aligned to the wider target architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Define finance architecture aligned to accounting, controls, reporting, and target-platform requirements.
  
• Translate finance and regulatory requirements into end-to-end solution designs.
  
• Assure data flows, controls, and integration with the wider architecture landscape.
  
• Collaborate with business SMEs, security, data, engineering, and operations teams to evaluate options and document decisions.
  
• Review and assure detailed designs to ensure they are scalable, supportable, compliant, and aligned to the target architecture.
  
• Support governance and design assurance activities across finance transformation initiatives.
  

Required Experience

• Strong background in finance architecture within financial services or a highly regulated environment.
  
• Deep understanding of accounting, controls, and reporting requirements.
  
• Experience translating business and regulatory needs into solution architecture and detailed design.
  
• Proven ability to work across multidisciplinary teams including business, technology, security, data, and operations.
  
• Experience assuring end-to-end solutions for scalability, compliance, and operational supportability.
  

What We're Looking For

• Strategic thinker with strong attention to detail.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  
• Ability to balance business needs, regulatory obligations, and technical constraints.
  
• Comfortable operating in complex, enterprise-scale environments.
  

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping finance architecture within a major long-term savings and retirement provider, influencing target-state design and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, compliant, and future-ready.

The organisation provides long-term savings, retirement, and protection products and operates in a highly regulated environment, requiring robust finance architecture, controls, and reporting.

A large financial services organisation focused on long-term savings, retirement, and protection products.