Associate Director - Solution Architect, Workday Finance

As a Finance Solution Architect in our Digital Finance Technology team, you will help transform the way Finance interacts with its internal business partners and external stakeholders to address the most significant business challenges for our global strategic clients.

You will support the CFO and CIO define the Finance solution architecture roadmap, shaping the future Finance function by combining industry insight with deep knowledge of Finance transformation, core applications, cloud adoption and disruptive digital enablers.

You will use your knowledge of Finance processes, information models and Finance applications to design solutions and future products and services, influencing critical solution architecture decisions.

Responsibilities will include:

• Support the office of Finance and IT organization define the Finance solution architecture roadmap
• Assess and recommend the best of breed Finance technology solutions to address client needs
• Combine industry insight with knowledge of core Finance and performance management applications, cloud adoption and digital enablers
• Understand the Finance processes, tooling and capabilities required to orchestrate Finance driven performance data
• Define the business case for solutions
• Design the solution to help with prototyping and development, and take the solution through to deployment
• Demonstrate thought leadership in cloud adoption and become a trusted advisor to the CFO and other key decision makers
• Understand hybrid and Cloud architecture, including new vendor solutions
• Grow and strengthen relationships with key technology partners such as Oracle, SAP, Workday, GCP, AWS, MS Azure, Anaplan and Tableau

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science (or related software engineering field) or equivalent, and/ or Finance related degree, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in ERP, EPM and cloud computing (including storage, platforms and data)
• Relevant work experience in Finance technology or related field
• Experience architecting, developing and/or maintaining production-grade Finance solutions
• Finance transformation experience with one or more of the leading ERP packages Oracle, SAP or Workday.
• Experience of virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• Experience as a Solution Manager or Developer, creating new solutions
• Demonstrated understanding of the current state of the art for automation, continuous integration/deployment and cloud-based delivery models
• Comfortable talking about technical issues with business people and business issues with technical people.
• Able to express complex concepts in plain language to reach broader audiences
• Ability to craft a compelling message and tailor it for a given audience, combining technical expertise with simple, everyday language to deliver a story
• Demonstrated business domain and/ or industry knowledge
• Ability to work well with a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team and clients
• Effective cross-functional project management, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with a focus on translating business requirements into information models
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership and self-direction.
• Experience in consulting or professional services

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