Job Description
Functional Systems Strategy: Define strategy and target architectures for core capabilities within Finance (GL, AP/AR, Consolidation, Tax, Treasury), HR (HCM, Payroll, Talent Management), Legal (eBilling, Matter Management, Contract Lifecycle Management), and Procurement (Sourcing, P2P, Supplier Management). Address emerging needs such as AI-driven forecasting and process automation. ERP & SaaS Platform Leadership: Lead the modernisation of core platforms (e.g. Workday, SAP, Coupa, ServiceNow) and niche systems. Analyse trends and disruptions (e.g. AI in HR, CLM) and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes. Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Architect solutions for mandates including SOX, GDPR, data privacy, and other corporate governance requirements, ensuring auditability and control across all domains. Executive Advisory: Partner with functional leadership (CFO, CHRO, CPO, Legal) to translate strategies for capital allocation, talent management, risk mitigation, and cost optimisation into integrated technical roadmaps. Visualise future states to trigger long-term planning and communicate the value of enterprise architecture. Vendor/Partner Evaluation: Assess FinTech, HRTech, LegalTech, and ProcureTech solutions for fit within the broader enterprise ecosystem and assist in managing vendor relationships. Design seamless data flows and integrations between finance systems and HR (payroll, benefits), Procurement (AP, spend analytics), Legal (accruals, compliance), and Commercial domains. Govern APIs, middleware, and data models for real-time, secure data sharing across the corporate technology landscape, enabling a single source of truth Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organisation's digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth. Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organisation's targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture. Constructs technology-enabled business and operating models and provides viable options and visibility into execution issues. Builds the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy. Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way. Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment. Enables Value-Based Messaging and Manages Cross-Functional Relationships Provides consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organisational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organisation, using technology to make that change happen. Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise. Leads a collaborative community of architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes. Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy. Works with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context. Develops diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy. Brings Alignment Across Business and IT Leads analysis of the business' future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes. Identifies organisational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture. Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organisational design to drive business-outcomes. This may include being part of fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives. Ensures that the EA organisational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g. profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT. Maintains the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time. Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms. Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams. Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective and efficient decision making. Facilitates a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box. Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market. Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture. Eight or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant. 5+ years focused on finance systems (ERP, EPM, Treasury, etc.) and 3+ years of experience with HR Tech (e.g. Workday, SAP SuccessFactors), Legal Tech (e.g. Onit, Mitratech), and/or Procurement Tech (e.g. Coupa, Ariba). Proven track record designing architectures for: - Financial close automation & regulatory reporting. - Integrated Hire-to-Retire and Procure-to-Pay process flows. - Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management. - Treasury, Risk & Compliance management. - Deep understanding of finance, HR, and procurement operating models (centralised vs. decentralised) and their tech implications. Fluency in finance KPIs (EBITDA, NPV, DSO) and operational KPIs (e.g. cost-per-hire, requisition-to-order cycle time) and the ability to architect systems that improve them.- Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, data and predictive analytics. - Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management. - Familiarity with specific platforms in the HR, Legal, and Procurement domains. - Familiarity with enterprise