About Unity Advisory

Unity Advisory is a pragmatic, outcome-focused advisory firm that bridges strategy and execution, supporting CFOs and finance leaders through transformation, transactions, and scaling journeys. This is a client-facing role within our AI Advisory team, setting the data architecture that our engagements — and our clients' AI ambitions — are built on.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Finance Data Architect to own finance data design across our AI Advisory engagements. This is a platform and design-authority role with a hands-on edge, combining deep finance domain knowledge with modern data architecture. You will define how finance data — across the general ledger, sub-ledgers, close, consolidation, reporting, FP&A, and valuation — is structured, governed, and served so that AI, analytics, and management reporting are reliable and scalable, and you will stay close enough to implementation to make your designs real. As a Senior Manager, you will lead architecture decisions, guide engineers, shape client finance data strategy, and be accountable for the coherence and quality of the finance data estate you design.

Key Responsibilities

• Define target-state finance data architectures for clients — models, storage, pipelines, and access patterns — balancing rigour with delivery realism.
• Establish finance data modelling standards and curated domain layers across the general ledger, sub-ledgers, close and consolidation, management and statutory reporting, FP&A, and valuation, with end-to-end lineage and provenance sufficient for audit and controls.
• Design chart-of-accounts, dimensional, and master-data structures that support consistent, reconcilable reporting across entities and source systems.
• Map and integrate finance source systems (ERP, EPM, sub-ledgers, and consolidation tools) into governed, analytics-ready models.
• Design the finance data foundations for applied AI/ML: governed retrieval sources for RAG, feature stores, and the architecture that keeps AI systems fed with trustworthy, reconciled finance data.
• Set patterns for secure, compliant finance data platforms — access control, data sensitivity, segregation of duties, isolation, and alignment to standards such as ISO 27001.
• Provide architectural direction for cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability, ensuring designs are cost-aware and operable.
• Define the data lineage and controls that support responsible production AI — monitoring, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Translate ambiguous business and client problems into clear architectural decisions and scoped roadmaps under delivery pressure.
• Own key technical trade-offs and communicate them clearly to engineers, product stakeholders, and senior client sponsors.
• Mentor data engineers, raise the technical bar across the team, and contribute reusable patterns, reference architectures, and accelerators.