FP&A to BI / analytics

Hi FP&A people. How many of you savvy folks are interested in the more technical side of finance data? I'm thinking of creating a position on my analytics team in IT team targeting candidates from FP&A that want to pivot to a data-focused career. I'm wondering how much interest there may be. Is this an impossible unicorn or what? Sometimes it feels like finance and business people think IT is beneath them, but I'm working hard to build a team that really gets the business. It took a long time to build trust within my company through successful projects like ERP-EPM data integration, automating operational metrics used as drivers in forecasting models, reporting, etc. Curious your thoughts.