Citi UK | Finance Business Architect, Vice President

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Finance and Shared Services to document current and future-state business architectures, anchored to business processes and functions.
• Work alongside data architects to map data dependencies and support alignment of data architecture — including Finance-wide data vision, governance, and platform direction — with business architecture objectives.
• Engage technical partners to align investments to target state architecture, flagging material deviations as appropriate.
• Contribute to business architecture principles supporting straight-through processing and the timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of financial reporting.
• Contribute to the Finance Tech Design Authority and support Permit to Design / Permit to Build governance processes.
• Assist in identifying and evaluating opportunities to embed AI, ML, and GenAI within Finance processes, supporting appropriate governance frameworks.
• Contribute to capability mapping, maturity assessments, and the centralised architecture knowledge repository.
• Support continuous improvement of the business architecture discipline through adoption of best practices, tooling, and training.

Requirements

• Experience supporting Finance transformation programmes, with an understanding of how ERP migrations, ledger consolidations, and reporting modernisation impact architecture and downstream platforms.
• Familiarity with ERP platforms (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Financials), Performance Management tools (e.g., Anaplan, OneStream, SAP BPC, Oracle EPM), and cube technologies (e.g., Essbase, TM1).
• Appreciation of data quality, reconciliation, and control challenges in large-scale Finance environments, and ability to engage Finance SMEs and technology teams on system and process change.
• Experience in an engineering and/or architecture capacity supporting Finance or related business functions.
• Track record of contributing to cross-functional business process improvement and enterprise architecture change.
• Comfortable in matrix environments; self-motivated, organised, and able to manage multiple workstreams.
• Strong communication skills enabling effective engagement up to senior management level.
• Methodical, detail-oriented, with familiarity with modern enterprise information architecture practices.
• Knowledge: Working understanding of AI/ML, GenAI, and agentic automation and their relevance to Finance use cases.
• AI Personal Productivity: Ability to use AI tools effectively, including prompt engineering and critical evaluation of outputs.
• Working knowledge of FP&A (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, close), Treasury (cash, liquidity, FX, intercompany), and Management Reporting (aggregation, allocation, multi-dimensional reporting) processes and their data dependencies

Citi UK

Citi UK is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in London and Belfast.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance