Finance Architect - Insurance (up to £1,000 a day outside IR35)

We are currently partnering with a Market-Leading Insurance company to recruit a Finance Architect on a contract basis. The successful candidate will lead the design of finance systems, data flows, and target operating models in a major transformation programme, collaborating with Finance, Actuarial, Technology, and Change teams to ensure compliance, alignment, and scalable, future-proof finance capabilities.

Key Responsibilities;

• Define and own the Finance Architecture Blueprint, ensuring alignment with enterprise and data architecture strategies.
• Lead architecture design for finance systems, general ledgers, sub-ledgers, actuarial data, and financial reporting platforms.
• Shape end-to-end data lineage, integration patterns, and control frameworks across finance and actuarial domains.
• Provide architectural oversight for major finance change initiatives (e.g., Solvency II, IFRS 17, automation, ledger replacement).
• Translate business requirements into robust architectural designs and solution options in collaboration with Finance SMEs.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to regulatory, audit, security, and risk standards.
• Influence senior stakeholders and challenge existing technical and functional approaches.
• Oversee vendor evaluation and selection while ensuring all architecture artefacts and designs are high quality and compliant.

The ideal candidate should have;

• Extensive background as a Finance Architect, Solution Architect, or Enterprise Architect within Insurance.
• Deep understanding of Finance & Actuarial processes, including reporting cycles, consolidation, planning, forecasting, and regulatory reporting.
• Strong technical knowledge of finance systems and tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday, OneStream, Tagetik, AWS/Azure data platforms).
• Experience designing architectures for: General ledger & sub-ledger platforms, Finance data warehouses & Controls and reconciliation frameworks