Finance Solution Architect
Meyrin, GE, CH
Finance Solution Architect
“Utilize your expertise in financial solutions and architectures to guide four product teams, serving our finance business in achieving efficiency and compliance.”
CONTEXT
As part of the Richemont Group Technology Product Domain “Finance Management & Planning”, Richemont is looking for a talented and highly motivated Finance Solution Architect to support design and architecture for Finance solutions globally within the group to focus on architectural setup of Finance core functions, Financial consolidation, Management reporting and consolidation.
HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?
As Finance Solution Architect, you are involved in scoping, designing, costing, and planning a range of Finance solutions and projects, translating and aligning business needs; you will collaborate closely with stakeholders, including finance professionals, other IT teams, and business leaders.
With your functional expertise, guidance and presentation skills on Finance solutions, often SAP-centric, and by integration with many other functional teams, you will:
- Lead, review, challenge, validate the implementation and integration of the technical architecture in the Finance Management & Planning product area based on business strategy, business requirements
- Manage & develop the architecture for the products and deliver the architectural design for products, translating business needs into a solution blueprint representing the end-to-end technical solution
- Ensure that architecture principles, and defined Enterprise Architecture guardrails, best practices about scalability, reliability, and security in the developed solutions are adhered
- Understand global IT strategy and business needs to define high level architectures.
- Develop integration processes and interface requirements
- Ensure third-party products fit in the organization ecosystem
- Analyze complex issues and propose solutions to solve them within the Finance Management & Planning product.
- Warrant compliance and security of the Finance product and solutions delivered and maintain a roadmap for required changes.
- Align with the Product Owner(s) to adequately prioritize technical features required for future functional features as well as current and future technical platform stability, security and compliance.
HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCESS WITH US?
- Excellence is a top priority for our teams. On this role you have the occasion to play a pivotal role in a major global strategic department for the Richemont Group and its Maisons.
- Your passion for moving forward and achieving will find the perfect context within the team, in a special environment of luxury goods and to see the impact of your work resulting in true business improvements.
- Innovation is at the heart of what we do, joining us means being exposed to latest trends and technologies.
- At Richemont we can and do discuss with all levels of technology and business, and your value-added and advice is highly appreciated by the business customers.
DIMENSIONS
- 10 years’ experience in projects/products management, including multinational and innovative environment, in the operational finance or consulting area.
- B.Sc. or MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or Economics.
- In-depth knowledge of finance processes, including accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Technical and/or Functional Experience and/or deep understanding of:
- SAP Financial solutions (FI, CO) and integration to other SAP modules and products, like MM, SD, PP, CS, BW, Retail
- Process Integration technologies (API, interfaces)
- Financial Consolidation solutions
- Financial Planning solutions, like Anaplan
- Treasury tools, like FIS Integrity
- Travel Expense solutions, like SAP Concur
- S/4 implementation
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a strategic mindset and a focus on delivering business value
- Negotiation and organizational skills.
- Experience working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
- Proficiency in English is mandatory.
HOW DO WE KEEP YOU SMILING?
- The role is a perfect match to for using your SAP-centric expertise and apply them on a broad set of tools/technologies in a global environment
- The variety and density of initiatives with our Functions and Maisons provides a great portfolio of opportunities to always learn and develop new skills
- At Richemont we can and do discuss with all levels of technology and business, and your value-added and advice is highly appreciated by the business stakeholders.
YOUR JOURNEY WITH US:
- If your application is selected, we will reach out to you for an informal introductory call.
- The next step from there would be different interviews with the Finance Product Area Manager team as well as with our HR Business Partner.