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# Senior Industry Solution Architect

- **Company:** Hackajob Ltd
- **Location:** Farnborough, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £61,000.0 - £101,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Cloud Computing, Financial Software, Design of User Interfaces
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5940375568

## About the Role

* We require a professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CPA, or equivalent).
 * We seek significant experience in senior finance, finance systems, finance transformation, or financial software advisory roles.
 * We require a strong understanding of ERP, financial management solutions, and core processes that support modern finance organizations.
 * We seek practical knowledge of financial accounting, reporting, governance, controls, compliance, audit requirements, and finance operating models.
 * We require the ability to translate finance needs, process challenges, and market insight into clear product requirements, recommendations, and design guidance.
 * We seek effective communication skills for working with finance stakeholders, product and technical teams, and senior internal stakeholders.
 * We require confidence analyzing and documenting complex finance processes, requirements, and business scenarios.
 * We value a collaborative, proactive, and analytical approach, with comfort working across multiple initiatives in a fast-moving environment.
 * We welcome a relevant finance or accounting qualification, a finance degree, or equivalent professional experience.
 * We value hands-on experience with competing enterprise financial management products and strong knowledge of competitor products, market positioning, and emerging finance technologies.
 * We value experience working in Agile product development environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to refine requirements, shape solution design, influence delivery priorities, and validate business outcomes.
 * We welcome experience applying artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, or workflow optimization to finance processes, as well as experience working with globally distributed teams.

## Description

* We rely on this role to guide how finance users work across end-to-end processes and modules, helping shape intuitive, efficient, connected user experiences grounded in real-world finance operations.
 * We expect this role to act as a finance domain expert within Product Management, translating modern finance needs, market insight, and competitive intelligence into product guidance.
 * We rely on this role to work with Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Architecture, Development, and UX teams to shape product strategy, validate requirements, and influence design decisions.
 * We expect this role to monitor market trends, competitor offerings, regulatory developments, and emerging finance technologies, identifying opportunities, risks, and capability gaps that can inform product direction.
 * We rely on this role to advise on finance operations and opportunities to modernize workflows, improve decision-making, reduce manual effort, and increase efficiency through AI and automation.
 * We expect this role to advise on controlled, auditable month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, including journals, reconciliations, approvals, reporting, and period locking.
 * We rely on this role to advise on governance, approval models, internal controls, segregation of duties, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, traceability, and transparent financial processes.
 * We expect this role to shape requirements for accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting, dashboards, and analytics.
 * We rely on this role to help ensure the platform supports complex organizational structures, multiple legal entities, currencies, tax requirements, regions, and global finance operating models.
 * We expect this role to evaluate, test, and help shape the finance solution so it is intuitive, efficient, and aligned with finance professionals day-to-day needs.
 * We rely on this role to represent finance leaders, controllers, accountants, auditors, and CFOs throughout the product lifecycle.
 * We expect this role to bring an independent finance industry perspective, challenge assumptions and proposed approaches, and draw on real-world experience and knowledge of market-leading solutions.
 * We rely on this role to contribute thought leadership, recommendations, and strategic insight to inform long-term product vision, roadmap priorities, and investment decisions.

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Architect
 * Cloud
 * ERP
 * Support
 * UX UI Design