Finance Systems and AI Enablement Specialist

Team - Finance Working Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working! Top 3 skills needed for this role

• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and influence stakeholders
• Significant experience in finance systems, business systems analysis, systems delivery, or finance technology enablement
• Strong understanding of finance processes, controls, reporting, and governance requirements

What this role is all about

The Finance Systems & AI Enablement Specialist operates at the intersection of finance systems delivery, data, and AI-driven transformation. The role ensures that core finance platforms are robust, well governed, and continuously improved, while identifying, shaping, and embedding AI-enabled solutions that improve efficiency, insight, and decision-making across Finance and the wider organisation. Working closely with Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders, the role translates operational needs into scalable system enhancements and AI use cases, supporting delivery from ideation and requirements through adoption and optimisation.

Key Actions

• Act as the subject matter expert for assigned finance systems, ensuring stability, supportability, and a clear improvement roadmap.
• Gather and translate business, operational, and regulatory requirements into prioritised, governed system change.
• Coordinate and assure delivery of finance system enhancements through design, testing, release, and post-implementation review.
• Identify and prioritise AI and automation opportunities that improve finance processes, controls, reporting, and decision-making.
• Define, enable, and oversee the lifecycle of AI solutions and agents to ensure they are secure, scalable, supportable, and adopted.
• Maintain governance artefacts, audit-ready evidence, and proportionate testing and assurance for system and AI-enabled changes.
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality, reporting, and benefits realisation through collaboration across Finance, Technology, AI Enablement, and suppliers.

• Demonstrable experience supporting or delivering AI, automation, analytics, or data-led improvement initiatives.
• Experience gathering requirements and translating business needs into well-governed system or data change.
• Experience with testing, UAT, assurance documentation, audit evidence, and change governance.
• Degree level or equivalent experience, with specialist knowledge gained through significant relevant work experience.
• Professional qualification in finance, systems, data, project delivery, or change management an advantage.
• Experience with finance data platforms, reporting tools, or cloud-based finance technologies an advantage.

• A pension of up to 12% - We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - with its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance - Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities! If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
• Be there for you when you need us
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

We're incredibly proud to be recognised for the culture we've created - recently being named one of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2026, and in 2024 we were delighted to be awarded Top 10 Places to Work in the Sunday Times Awards. Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place. We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives - they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people - and because we care. Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out. Ready to find out if we're the right fit for you? We can't wait. Diversity & Inclusion At Vitality, we're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Vitality's approach to sustainability Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid