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About the Role

Spaulding Ridge is seeking a Certinia Financial Management Cloud Solution Architect to join their Revenue Excellence team in the UK. This role is for a senior finance transformation professional who can design and implement scalable Certinia solutions, guiding clients through the entire project lifecycle. The position involves leading enterprise finance transformation, delivering Certinia solutions, and advising clients and internal teams.

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.

Requirements

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

Skills

Certinia Financial Management Cloud
Salesforce platform capabilities
Finance transformation
Solution architecture
Delivery leadership
Process improvement
Stakeholder management
Consulting
Facilitation
Problem-solving
Executive communication

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Salesforce Administrator certification preferred
Additional Salesforce platform or architecture credentials considered an advantage
Certinia Financial Management certifications highly desirable

About the Company

Spaulding Ridge is an advisory and IT implementation firm that helps global organizations achieve financial clarity in complex sales and operational decisions impacting revenue, performance, and financial management.
The company values relationships with clients, partners, team members, and the global community, focusing on transforming businesses from strategy through implementation.

Equal Opportunity

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.
The company is committed to offering Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.