Lead Solution Architect- Senior Vice President

### **Team/Role Overview** The Finance Technology Transformation program is a strategic, multi-year initiative to modernize our core finance platforms by migrating to Oracle SaaS. This transformation is fundamentally redesigning our finance operating model, impacting accounting engines, end-to-end data flows, and enterprise-wide financial reporting. The Lead Business Architect is a senior, independent leader responsible for defining the target state business architecture for critical domains within this program. This role is not technology-focused; it is centered on shaping the future of our finance function by defining **business capabilities, end-to-end processes, data flows, and controls.** You will be the primary driver in translating strategic goals into a coherent business blueprint that will guide the transformation. Reporting to the Principal Architect, you will lead a small team of business architects and work with senior stakeholders across Finance, Operations, and Technology to ensure the program's success from a business process and functional perspective. ### **What You'll Do** - **Define Target State Architecture:** Lead the definition and modeling of the target state business architecture for key finance domains, including Accounting Engines, General Ledger, Financial Close, Data Substantiation, and Reconciliation. - **Process Mapping & Analysis:** Map and critically analyze current state business processes to identify gaps, pain points, and opportunities for simplification, standardization, and automation. - **Design Business Blueprints:** Develop detailed business process models, functional designs, and data flow diagrams that articulate the future state, ensuring they align with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements. - **Champion Data & Controls:** Champion the design of robust reconciliation and substantiation frameworks from a business process and data integrity perspective, ensuring data is complete, accurate, and timely. - **Stakeholder Collaboration:** Collaborate with senior business stakeholders across Finance, Front Office, and Operations to gather requirements, build consensus, and ensure the target architecture meets critical business needs. - **Bridge to Technology:** Partner with Technology teams to translate the business architecture into functional requirements, ensuring the delivered solutions are fit-for-purpose and solve the right business problems. - **Lead & Mentor:** Lead and mentor a team of Senior Business Architects, fostering a culture of business process excellence, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of the finance function. ### **What We'll Need From You** - **Extensive Experience:** Proven track record as a Business Architect, Process Architect, or in a similar strategic role within the financial services industry. - **Deep Subject Matter Expertise:** Deep functional knowledge of core finance and accounting processes, including General Ledger, sub-ledger accounting, financial close and consolidation, data substantiation, and multi-system reconciliation. - **Business Process Modeling:** Demonstrated ability to model business capabilities and design complex, end-to-end business processes at scale within a global organization. - **Financial Data Acumen:** Strong understanding of financial data flows, data governance principles, and the critical data elements required for financial control and reporting in a regulated environment. - **Transformation Experience:** Significant experience in large-scale business transformation programs, preferably involving a migration to a SaaS-based ERP or accounting platform (e.g., Oracle, SAP). - **Stakeholder Influence:** Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence senior leaders and articulate complex business concepts to diverse audiences. - **Strategic Mindset:** A strategic thinker who can connect detailed process design to broader business outcomes and long-term objectives…