Solution Architect || Finance

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Own and maintain the overall integrated solution architecture for financial systems, ensuring the fidelity of the solutions across applications.
• Manage and develop architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative.
• Take a leadership position in the technology roadmap and establish a vision by:
• Remaining at the forefront of technological advancements within the finance domain, providing proactive recommendations for innovative solutions.
• Exhibiting technical leadership by guiding the selection and assimilation of technologies that augment the efficiency and efficacy of our financial processes.
• Maintain systems encompassing Enterprise Architecture, Solution documentation, Business Process Management, process materials (e.g. SOPs) and other related documentation repositories in line with our aim to have best-in-class documentation.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Managers and Global & Regional Finance business to develop solutions.
• Provide consulting support to portfolio architects within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation, and innovation). Analyzing existing SAP systems for potential improvements and recommending solutions.
• Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).
• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.
• Collaborates with other architects on the Architecture Review Board (ARB).
• Lead end-to-end solution blueprint discussions accounting for integration points between the SAP modules as well as non-SAP applications.
• Leverage, improve and challenge SAP solution proposals to make it follow the industrial best practice and ensure it meets clients functional requirements.
• Staying current with the latest industry trends and best practices related to SAP and sharing this knowledge with the Product Owners.

KEY QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCES:

• Ten or more years of experience designing and leading creative architecture solutions.
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Experience in multiple architecture domains (business, information, technology, application, infrastructure, security) and are proficient in generating technical roadmaps and architectures to lead architecture concepts.
• Proven track record as a Solution Architect in the realm of finance management, including GL, AP, Taxes, Treasury, Credit Management, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability and Performance, Product Costing, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, Consolidations, Planning/Forecasting, reporting & analytics.
• Prior experience in organizations leveraging SAP suite of solutions (ECC/S/4 HANA BI, BW, SAC) with focus on SAP FICO.
• Have a track record of remaining unbiased toward specific technologies or vendors.
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Application Portfolio Management (APM): hands on experience implementing APM with one or more leading EA tools would be an asset. LeanIX experience is an asset.
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps).
• Experience in key technology domains including Cloud, Containers, API, Events, Security, Integration, Infrastructure, Data and AI.
• Experience in Consume Products considered an asset.
• Architecture experience in Agriculture and food manufacturing is considered an asset.
• Be an excellent communicator and collaborator, engaging with multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders.
• A certification in enterprise architecture such as TOGAF is considered an asset.