Urgent Requirement | Contract - Solution Architect – Finance Transformation Programme | 100% Remote

Job Title: Solution Architect – Finance Transformation Programme

Experience: 10+ Years

Engagement: Contract

Work Mode & Location: Remote

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to lead the architecture for a large-scale Finance Transformation Programme . The ideal candidate should have robust expertise in Enterprise Architecture, ERP Finance, Finance Process Architecture, Data Architecture, Integration, Governance, and Finance Transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

- Define and govern Solution Architecture Vision, Roadmap, Principles, and Standards.
- Lead architecture governance for Finance Transformation initiatives.
- Design Finance Process Architecture across R2R, P2P, O2C, Treasury, Tax, FP&A;, Project Accounting, and Asset Accounting.
- Define and govern Global Finance Data Models.
- Drive ERP functional architecture and business capability mapping.
- Lead architecture reviews and solution evaluations.
- Define integration architecture and canonical data models.
- Ensure compliance with IFRS, GAAP, SOX, VAT/GST, and statutory regulations.
- Govern AI enablement and automation within ERP and Finance platforms.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Domain Leads, and Business Stakeholders.

Required Skills & Experience: Strategic Leadership & Vision

- Own and govern the programme’s Strategic Architecture Artefacts (Solution Architecture Vision, Roadmap, Principles, and Standards) to guide all design decisions and delivery processes.
- Synchronize key design decision analysis, providing an analysis baseline and obtaining input from Enterprise Domain Leads and Technical Leads, before internal review. The Solution Architect ensures compelling analysis is made on solution options, factual accuracy, and internal IS alignment before any communication on the recommended solution.




- Ensure finance transformation outcomes are embedded in architecture - including standardisation, automation, improved control, and enhanced decision-making capabilities.
- Govern capability-to-process-to-system mapping, ensuring ERP functional scope is right-sized and aligned to business value, avoiding over-customisation.
- Lead the architecture fit scoring and evaluation process for RFP responses, ensuring scoring criteria are business-capability-led, traceable, and transparent.
- Translate program decisions and definitions into architecture and data flow implications, communicating across domains

Finance Domain Architecture

- Own and govern the Finance Process Architecture across Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Project Accounting, Asset Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Consolidation, and FP&A.;
- Identify and resolve dependencies with boundary applications and between domains. The Solution Architect ensures cross-domain solution alignment, working with the Enterprise Domain Leads and Data stakeholders.
- Define and maintain the Global Finance Data Model across operational (ERP) and analytical (BI/FP&A;) layers, ensuring one version of the truth for finance data.
- Ensure finance architecture complies with GAAP, tax and statutory requirements, IFRS/GAAP, SOX, VAT/GST, and other statutory requirements across all jurisdictions.
- Oversee integration between ERP and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platforms for consolidation, budgeting, and forecasting.

Design Assurance & Governance

- Represent the programme at Architecture Review Boards to ensure all solution designs comply with strategic artefacts,



guardrails, and non-functional requirements.
- Ensure architecture guardrails are consistently applied across ERP, integration, analytics, and EPM platforms.
- Own the definition, approval, and governance of Analytical and Canonical Data Models and Canonical Data Models.
- Validate integration and data contracts support finance transformation KPIs and end-to-end process integrity.AI Enablement & Capability Mapping
- Govern the use of embedded AI capabilities in ERP, EPM, and analytics platforms in line with the AI Enablement Strategy.
- Maintain the Capability-to-Application Mapping, ensuring traceability between finance capabilities and enabling applications.
- Approve AI and automation opportunities where accuracy, control, and compliance can be assured.
- Integration, Data, and Migration Architecture
- Validate integration and data contracts support finance transformation KPIs and end-to-end process integrity.AI Enablement & Capability Mapping.=

Required Skills & Experience

- Solution Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture
- Finance Transformation
- ERP Architecture
- Finance Process Architecture
- Record-to-Report (R2R)
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
- Order-to-Cash (O2C)
- Treasury
- Tax
- Project Accounting
- Asset Accounting
- FP&A;
- Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
- Finance Data Model
- Canonical Data Model
- Data Architecture
- Integration Architecture
- Architecture Governance
- Business Capability Mapping
- AI Enablement
- ERP Integration
- GAAP / IFRS
- SOX Compliance

Preferred Qualifications

- SAP S/4HANA
- Oracle ERP
- Dynamics 365 Finance
- TOGAF
- ArchiMate
- Azure Integration
- MuleSoft
- Boomi

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