Domain Architect – Accounting & Tax

• Define the target-state architecture and roadmap for A&T platforms, aligned to enterprise architecture standards.
• Design financial systems, tax workflows and e-invoicing / e-reporting integrations across jurisdictions.
• Lead solutioning for regulatory reporting and statutory compliance, including local GAAP and IFRS reporting outputs.
• Define the standardized financial data model – chart of accounts, ledgers, multi-entity and multi-currency – underpinning accounting and reporting.
• Architect integrations with:
  • ERP and client finance systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, local finance systems)
  • Government / tax authority platforms and e-invoicing networks
• Embed data-accuracy, reconciliation and audit controls across the platform.
• Govern solutions through the TDA / ARB process, producing solution design documents and architecture decision records.
• Direct and mentor development teams through the delivery of highly scalable, resilient and secure enterprise solutions, upholding engineering excellence, performance, reliability and security-by-design standards.

Must-have skills (domain)

• Accounting processes – Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) plus statutory bookkeeping, general ledger, reconciliation and financial-statement preparation under local GAAP and IFRS.
• Tax compliance across jurisdictions – corporate income tax, VAT/GST, withholding tax, statutory filings and tax-calendar / obligation management.
• Digital-tax mandates – e-invoicing and e-reporting / real-time reporting regimes and their integration implications.
• Close & consolidation – period-close, intercompany, consolidation and multi-entity / multi-currency processing.
• ERP integration experience – across major finance platforms and client systems.
• Data modelling – strong data modelling for audit, reconciliation and regulatory reporting.

Technology requirements

• Azure data layer [SN2] – Azure SQL, Synapse / Microsoft Fabric and Data Lake / Storage, with supporting data-integration services. Awareness of AWS is nice to have.
• API-led integration (MuleSoft preferred) – system, process and experience APIs, with API design and lifecycle management.
• Enterprise solution architecture and design – across cloud-native, microservices and event-driven patterns.
• Security & compliance – security-by-design and awareness of the regulatory drivers relevant to TMF's operating model (DORA, GDPR) and of data residency across jurisdictions.
• AI & GenAI awareness – working understanding of AI/ML and generative-AI capabilities (LLMs, AI agents, RAG, classification and extraction models) and how they apply to accounting, tax and compliance workflows – e.g. document extraction, reconciliation, anomaly detection and tax-rule interpretation. Able to critically evaluate vendor AI offerings, distinguishing genuine capability from marketing and assessing model accuracy, hallucination and bias risk, explainability, human-in-the-loop controls, training-data provenance and data-handling. Assesses AI solutions against EU AI Act, DORA and GDPR obligations before embedding them into regulated financial processes.

KPIs / success metrics

• Demonstrable adherence to Enterprise Architecture standards.
• Standardized financial data model adopted across regions.
• Measurable reduction in regulatory and audit issues.
• Reusable integration patterns for tax and e-invoicing.
• Improved time-to-onboard for new countries and compliance flows.

Ideal experience

• 12+ years in enterprise / solution architecture.
• Demonstrable exposure to financial platforms and/or tax systems.
• Experience designing and leading development teams building enterprise platforms end to end.

Interview focus

• Design a multi-country e-Invoicing and digital tax compliance architecture.
• Design a multi-jurisdiction statutory reporting platform supporting local GAAP, IFRS, SFS and Direct Tax requirements.
• Approach to data consistency, auditability, scalability and regulatory variability across regions.
• Handling regulatory variability across regions.

Evaluate a vendor’s AI-enabled tax or accounting offering – how would you validate its claims, test accuracy and explainability, design human oversight, and govern its use under the EU AI Act and DORA