Certinia FM Cloud Solution Architect

We are looking for a Certinia Financial Management Cloud Solution Architect to join our Revenue Excellence team in the UK. This role is ideal for a senior finance transformation professional who can translate complex business requirements into scalable, high-quality Certinia solutions and guide clients through the full implementation lifecycle. 

You will lead enterprise finance transformation initiatives, deliver innovative Certinia Financial Management Cloud solutions, and act as a trusted advisor to clients, internal delivery teams, and executive stakeholders. The role combines hands-on solution architecture, delivery leadership, process improvement, and mentoring responsibilities. 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead end-to-end Certinia Financial Management Cloud implementations, including discovery, design, configuration oversight, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support. 

• Own the overall solution architecture, ensuring designs are scalable, maintainable, aligned to leading practices, and integrated effectively with Salesforce and surrounding enterprise systems. 

• Manage project budgets, schedules, risks, dependencies, and quality standards, partnering closely with project managers and client sponsors to ensure successful delivery outcomes. 

• Facilitate finance process workshops with client stakeholders to document current-state processes, define future-state operating models, and identify opportunities for automation and control improvements. 

• Design and validate solutions across general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, revenue recognition, cash management, financial reporting, and related finance workstreams. 

• Support pre-sales activities and proposal development by shaping solution approaches, estimating delivery effort, contributing to statements of work, and presenting solution recommendations to prospective clients. 

• Mentor junior consultants and architects by providing design guidance, reviewing deliverables, sharing implementation best practices, and supporting professional development across the delivery team. 

Key Skills and Experience: 

• Ability to translate finance, accounting, and operational requirements into clear functional designs, solution blueprints, and delivery plans. 

• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, data models, integrations, security considerations, reporting, and release management practices. 

• Experience working with senior finance stakeholders, including CFOs, controllers, finance directors, shared services leaders, and technology sponsors. 

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and finance concepts to both business and technical audiences. 

Qualifications: 

• Proven experience implementing Certinia Financial Management Cloud solutions in complex client environments, preferably across multiple full project lifecycles. 

• Strong finance and accounting process knowledge, including month-end close, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, billing, revenue management, intercompany, controls, and financial reporting. 

• Prior experience as a Solution Architect, Delivery Manager, Senior Consultant, or equivalent senior implementation role within a consulting or enterprise technology environment. 

• Salesforce Administrator certification preferred, with additional Salesforce platform or architecture credentials considered an advantage. 

• Certinia Financial Management certifications highly desirable, particularly where supported by practical experience designing and delivering Certinia finance solutions. 

• Strong stakeholder management, consulting, facilitation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills, with a track record of building trusted client relationships. 

What Success Looks Like: 

• Clients have clear, practical solution designs that support their finance transformation goals and can be delivered with confidence. 

• Implementation teams understand the architecture, delivery priorities, risks, and decision points needed to move projects forward effectively. 

• Solutions are adopted successfully by finance users and provide measurable improvements in process efficiency, reporting visibility, controls, and scalability.