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Your New Role...
The Staff, Financial Applications Architect will help design scalable, modern, and efficient solutions for financial applications and integrations within the Enterprise Technology Finance Planning & Deal Management Solutions team’s portfolio. This role will also help evaluate, implement, and enable AI and agent-based process automation to improve business processes and drive efficiency for business users.
Your Role Accountabilities...
Operations and Project Management
Support project teams, key stakeholders, and leadership in prioritizing business requirements and developing/maintaining detailed project plans using standard tools.
Define required project roles and partner with management to secure appropriate resources.
Lead by influence and operate effectively in a matrixed, cross-functional environment.
Coordinate plans and readiness activities for deployments and migrations into production.
Support teams across the organization with data and document archiving for retiring and retired applications.
Partner with key stakeholders to define, document, and execute the project plan.
Support management with special assignments (e.g., vendor evaluations and gathering/evaluating consultant proposals), as needed.
Strategy
Monitor industry trends and partner with management to incorporate relevant practices into business processes to drive efficiency and maintain a competitive advantage.
Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand needs and dependencies and align business processes accordingly.
Help develop and execute a methodology to evaluate, prioritize, and monitor the success of business processes.
Clearly articulate strategic issues and provide relevant, logical options to address them.
Define data and document archiving strategies for retiring and retired applications and systems.
Develop clear, comprehensive strategy presentations for senior executives.
Technology and Analytics
Analyze business process performance and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Develop a scalable analytics framework and deliver dynamic business intelligence dashboards to support ongoing business planning and KPI-based performance measurement.
Architect business solutions that are scalable, secure, modern, and efficient.
Participate in stakeholder meetings to understand planned initiatives and align technology roadmaps and priorities.
Contribute to defining and implementing new and improved workflows and operational initiatives.
Develop and deliver training and supporting materials for new or updated processes.
Create and maintain runbooks and application understanding documentation.
Own the transition and ongoing support strategy for retiring and retired applications, including those becoming unsupported by vendors.
Qualifications & Experiences...
10+ years of experience in a related industry (e.g., media, entertainment).
5+ years of experience as an Application Architect, Solution Architect, or Enterprise Architect supporting ERP finance, supply chain, and related financial solutions (packaged software, custom solutions, and SaaS applications).
Bachelor’s degree…