Finance Enterprise Architect

Our client is a global professional services firm.
SAP S/4 HANA Finance Enterprise Architect
The role of the SAP S/4 HANA Finance Enterprise Architect is to develop the UK Firm's technology strategy for Finance and Engagement Management domain and translate this into a roadmap that determines our investment priorities and transformation portfolio. The technology strategy needs to promote a seamless, end-to-end customer and employee experience by enabling the efficient creation and modification of effective and reusable technology components.

In particular, the strategy should promote the use of modern, Cloud-based technologies; support typical Finance use cases; challenge the business strategy based on emerging and future technology trends; and establish a catalogue that supports the reuse of new technology components, whilst targeting legacy applications and technology for decommissioning. The role should also help to execute and govern the strategy, by helping solution architects and projects to design solutions that are fit for purpose and conform to our standards and patterns.

Key Responsibilities
You will need to maintain your core knowledge of Finance and Engagement Management (FEM) platforms, wider technology trends and our client technology ecosystem; build FEM roadmaps and solutions; and govern relevant technology choices within the Firm. In addition to the FEM domain, you will be expected to cover other business and/or technology domains as and when required.

Core knowledge
Maintain a high level of technical knowledge incl. current, emerging and future technology market trends and their impact on the business

Develop and maintain expert knowledge of our client's technology ecosystem, incl. the main applications and technologies that interact with FEM technologies

Work with Capability CTOs, technical SMEs and specific projects to analyse and translate business requirements into technical requirements, ensuring that these are feasible

If required, provide advice to and/or seek to learn from other Member Firms, client teams and/or clients that are seeking to implement or improve their use of FEM applications

Applicaiton Portfolio Management    Manage and maintain the application inventory for your assigned domains.
Work with stakeholders to assign application categories
Manage the roadmap for phasing in and out applications based on their lifecycle dates
Look to consolidate, decommission redundant and/or duplication application functionality for efficiency and cost savings

Roadmaps & solutions    Build and maintain the FEM technology roadmap and architecture for our client assets, working with Capability CTOs, and business and technical SMEs where relevant
Work together with Capability CTO to ensure applications data is complete and up to date in the EA tooling
Integration concepts and methods
Data architecture and master data management
Ensure that Capability roadmaps are aligned to the FEM strategy, and coherent with those of other Capabilities and technology domain roadmaps
Work with Capability CTOs, technical SMEs and specific projects to analyse and translate business requirements into technical requirements, ensuring that these are feasible
Ensure that Solution Architects produce designs that are fit for purpose, adhere to relevant standards and patterns, leverage reusable components, and are coherent with wider our client technology domains
Contribute to the selection of specific FEM technologies
Influence business and technology stakeholders to adopt the right technology solutions
Support the design and implementation of operating models that improve the design and delivery of successful FEM deployments
Escalate risks, issues and critical dependencies to the appropriate leaders as…