IFS Finance Lead Architect

Key responsibilities

· Partner with finance leadership to align IFS capabilities with strategic objectives and identify opportunities to enhance financial processes and achieve business goals.

· Design and architect comprehensive IFS Finance solutions, encompassing module configurations, integrations, data models, and customizations, ensuring alignment with overall enterprise architecture standards.

· Develop the long-term IFS Cloud roadmap for financial applications, including defining target architecture building blocks, milestones, and conducting cost-benefit analysis.

· Analyse and recommend various implementation options (Reuse vs. Buy vs. Build) across the IFS ERP application estate to determine the most suitable approach.

· Analyse, map systems and services, engaging with the business to understand end-to-end value chains and ensuring the right financial controls are in place.

· Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of complex business requirements for IFS Finance functionalities, translating them into clear functional and non-functional specifications.

· Act as a key liaison between finance stakeholders and technical/implementation teams, ensuring technical solutions accurately reflect business needs and effectively communicating technology recommendations.

· Analyze existing financial business processes, identify inefficiencies, and propose optimized workflows leveraging IFS best practices and system capabilities.

· Guide and support the configuration of IFS Financials modules and oversee/participate in testing cycles (UAT, SIT).

· Define data requirements for finance modules, ensuring data integrity, migration strategies, reporting capabilities are robust, and contributing to solution design standards and governance.

Required Experience & Skills.

· Experience in leading teams, process implementations, managing and delegating projects.

· Well versed with KPIs across finance processes. Must be capable of leading teams with investigations finding RCAs and can think of user experience.

· Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills, with a collaborative work style that fosters cooperation, teamwork, and effective stakeholder management.

· Ability to break down silos and exercise discretion and good judgment, understanding the broader impact of decisions on the company.

· Exceptional time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

· Strong capacity to coordinate and communicate with various stakeholders.

· Proactive and eager to learn, with the ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously.

· Team player with a willingness to grow within a complex organization.

· Open-minded and comfortable working in a diverse, international environment.

· High integrity and personal ethics, with professional communication skills and the ability to handle confidential information and sensitive situations.

· Strong investigative, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities

· Proven ability to manage complex projects and initiatives.

Total Experience:12 to 15 Years

· At least 7 years of experience in IFS Apps 10 & Cloud finance functional area, with 5+ years in a leadership role

· Working experience in IFS Cloud implementation as a Functional Consultant or Architect

· Bachelor’s degree in engineering or any other equivalent degree

· IFS Cloud implementation experience is desirable.

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