Lead Finance Solution Architect

Overview

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere.

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• Solution Design & Architecture: Develop end-to-end finance solution architectures that align with business processes, regulatory requirements, and enterprise technology standards.
• Business Process Translation: Understand finance and accounting terminology and workflows (e.g., procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, tax compliance) and translate them into functional and technical specifications.
• Technology Integration: Design solutions leveraging modern finance technologies such as SAP, Vertex, Vistex, Esker, Ariba, Concur, and advanced data tools for analytics and automation.
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner with finance, IT, and business teams to ensure solutions meet operational needs and strategic objectives.
• Best Practices & Governance: Apply industry best practices for finance systems architecture, data integrity, and security while ensuring compliance with global standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process optimization and technology enhancements to drive efficiency and scalability.
• Develop and maintain target state architectures and roadmaps aligned with business strategy and technology trends.
• Provide architectural leadership and ensure stakeholder alignment across business and technical teams.
• Deliver end-to-end architecture designs across business, data, application, and technology domains.
• Define and uphold architectural best practices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and fit for purpose.

• Design scalable, flexible solutions aligned with business needs using modern technologies (e.g. microservices, orchestration, data integration).
• IT Strategy & Planning: Contribute to enterprise architecture roadmaps and ensure alignment of projects with architectural standards.
• Enterprise Roadmaps: Define and present target architectures and migration plans; promote standardization across Corporate IT.
• Development Support: Guide teams on implementing architecture, resolving technical challenges, and ensuring delivery meets business KPIs.
• Governance & Standards: Develop and maintain IT policies; support architecture reviews and advocate EA principles.
• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Work across teams to build capability and share expertise.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise with Enterprise Architecture, Security and Audit to ensure robust, secure solution designs.

• Leadership: Ability to influence and guide cross-functional teams toward shared goals.
• Strategic Thinking: Strong capability to align technology solutions with long-term business objectives.
• Technical-to-Business Translation: Skilled in bridging the gap between technical design and business requirements for clear, actionable solutions.
• Modern Finance Technology Expertise: Deep understanding of ERP systems (SAP), tax engines (Vertex), pricing/rebate tools (Vistex), automation platforms (Esker), procurement solutions (Ariba), travel & expense systems (Concur), and data analytics tools.
• Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Exceptional ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree or certifications (e.g., CPA, SAP Architect) preferred.

Experience:

• Proven experience implementing and integrating ERP and finance systems in large-scale environments.
• Minimum of 5 years as a Solution Architect across financial applications, data, and security domains.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in cloud technologies, APIs, and modern development frameworks.
• Strong communication, critical thinking, modelling, and risk analysis skills.
• Customer-focused with excellent interpersonal and consensus-building abilities.
• Proven consultancy skills across business analysis, IT architecture, infrastructure, cloud, and software design.

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of finance and accounting systems and technologies.
• Expertise in system integration, data modeling, and process automation.
• Familiarity with agile delivery methodologies and enterprise architecture frameworks.

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members  ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health…