
Associate Director - Solution Architect, Workday Finance
- England
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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