As an Application Architect Manager - Finance, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and implementation of financial software applications and solutions. Your expertise will drive the strategic planning and optimization of financial system ensuring seamless integration with our organization's technology infrastructure
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of application architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers
- Take full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organization
- Support the establishment of policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, and co-ordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency. Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to
- Contribute to the creation and review of a systems capability strategy for responsible area to meet the strategic requirements of the business
- Develop models and plans to drive forward the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance
- Take responsibility for investigative work to determine requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, data management, practices, procedures, organization and equipment
- Provide leadership and guidelines for responsible area to promote the development and exploitation of IT technologies for next generation practices in the complex capital equipment manufacturing business
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architect, Digital and Data architect, Infrastructure architect and IT Security architect to identify synergies and dependencies in IT roadmap to avoid unnecessary reworks
- Drives the development and recruitment of application architecture and solution design competency and capability set that meets the company needs
- Analyse business processes; identifies alternative solutions, assesses feasibility, and recommends new approaches, typically seeking to exploit technology components.
- Evaluates the financial, cultural, technological, organizational and environmental factors which must be addressed in the change programme
- Establishes client requirements for the implementation of significant changes in organizational mission, business functions and process, organizational roles and responsibilities, and scope or nature of service delivery
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Over 15 years of relevant IT experience including experience in leading fully cycle project roll-out
- Strong understanding of financial processes, regulations, and compliance requirements
- Excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders at all levels and convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Problem-solving and analytical mindset, capable of identifying and resolving complex technical challenges
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in S/4HANA implementation project end-to-end would be a bonus
- Experience in leading SAP blueprinting efforts for sizable projects that involves complex capital equipment manufacturing business contexts especially in product configuration, engineering, and manufacturing, etc.
Personal characteristics
- Critical Thinker: ability to apply Systems Thinking. Uses principles to derive methods
- Leading change: ability to bring about strategic change to meet organizational goals
- Inherent ability to implement an organizational vision in a continuously changing environment
- Strong influencer who can work in a highly collaborative team environment and is able to reach consensus-based decisions.
- Has a strong result orientation with a focus on operational excellence
- Excellent organizational and program management skills
- Demonstrated strong financial stewardship
- Ability to manage through ambiguity
