Staff, Financial Applications Architect

The Staff, Financial Applications Architect will help design scalable, modern and efficient solutions for financial applications and integrations within the Enterprise Technology Finance Planning & Deal Management Solutions team's portfolio. The role also helps evaluate, implement and enable AI and agent-based process automation to improve business processes and drive efficiency for business users. The position operates in a matrixed, cross-functional environment, partnering with project teams, key stakeholders and leadership.

• Support project teams, key stakeholders and leadership in prioritising business requirements and developing and maintaining detailed project plans using standard tools.
• Define required project roles and partner with management to secure appropriate resources, leading by influence in a matrixed, cross-functional environment.
• Coordinate plans and readiness activities for deployments and migrations into production, and partner with key stakeholders to define, document and execute the project plan.
• Support management with special assignments such as vendor evaluations and gathering and evaluating consultant proposals.
• Support teams across the organisation with data and document archiving for retiring and retired applications, and define data and document archiving strategies for retiring and retired applications and systems.
• Monitor industry trends and partner with management to incorporate relevant practices into business processes to drive efficiency and maintain a competitive advantage, collaborating with key stakeholders to understand needs and dependencies and align business processes accordingly.
• Help develop and execute a methodology to evaluate, prioritise and monitor the success of business processes, articulate strategic issues with relevant, logical options to address them, and develop clear, comprehensive strategy presentations for senior executives.
• Analyse business process performance and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Develop a scalable analytics framework and deliver dynamic business intelligence dashboards to support ongoing business planning and KPI-based performance measurement.
• Architect business solutions that are scalable, secure, modern and efficient.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings to understand planned initiatives and align technology roadmaps and priorities, and contribute to defining and implementing new and improved workflows and operational initiatives.
• Develop and deliver training and supporting materials for new or updated processes, and create and maintain runbooks and application understanding documentation.
• Own the transition and ongoing support strategy for retiring and retired applications, including those becoming unsupported by vendors.

• 10+ years of experience in a related industry (e.g., media, entertainment).
• 5+ years of experience as an Application Architect, Solution Architect or Enterprise Architect supporting ERP finance, supply chain and related financial solutions (packaged software, custom solutions and SaaS applications).
• Bachelor's degree required, with a focus on Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Electronics, Management or a related technical field preferred.
• Experience developing architecture diagrams and data models using tools such as Visio and Lucidchart.
• Working knowledge of one or more financial systems (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP Cloud, Workday Financials), as well as Ariba, OCR platforms and e-invoicing platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud and data platforms such as AWS, Azure, Informatica and data lake technologies.
• Knowledge of AI platforms and tools (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Azure AI).
• Experience with data and document archiving solutions, tools and methodologies.
• Experience working with SaaS, PaaS, custom and third-party applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with small teams.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments concurrently.

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent.
• Knowledge of at least one enterprise architecture framework (e.g., Zachman, TOGAF, FEAF, Gartner EA), patterns and best practices for driving business transformation.
• MBA.
• 2+ years of post-MBA experience in a related industry (e.g., media, entertainment).
• Experience working in a global media company.
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple geographic locations.
• Familiarity with data visualisation tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Amazon QuickSight).
• Comfortable working in a highly iterative, somewhat unstructured environment.
• Experience with ERP and adjacent enterprise applications (e.g., SAP, Oracle E-Business, Ariba).