Vice President - Finance Business Architecture - BPO/KPO

Finance Business Architecture - VP

The Finance Business Architect is accountable for owning specific initiatives as part of the overall finance architecture strategy. This will include :

- Become a trusted advisor and recognized expert to Finance and technology colleagues regarding Finance business architecture strategy

- Actively drive transformation outcomes for the function, through a strategic lens

- Pro-actively identify opportunities for improvement, develop the conversation and challenge the status quo

- Provide guidance and support to Finance Business Architecture Analyst within the team

- Presenting and influencing key stakeholders at the Design Authority and other forums

- Apply industry best practice design principles / concepts, as part of solution design

- Ensuring continuous focus on quality and controls as part of transformation delivery.

What we're looking for :

- Financial services experience, within retail and/or investment banking

- Knowledge of Finance process, system and technologies preferably in Internal Reporting

- Appreciation of data principles, including data modelling and data design

- Demonstrate a range of styles and techniques in leadership and communications, including influencing and negotiating with a broad set of stakeholders

- Excellent Power-point skills, with the ability to storyboard and produce best in class presentations

- The successful candidate will possess a demonstrable track record, working on a variety of relevant projects

- Degree level education and an excellent general academic track record

Skills that will help you in the role :

- The ideal candidate will have experience of finance transformation programs and strong command of project management techniques and principles, and process management skills and techniques (Lean, Six Sigma)

- Experience of Reporting/Analysis tools e.g. SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud), Tableau, Qlick Sense

- Finance process experience relevant to the role, details are available through the resourcing team

- Strong data manipulation skills including Excel and experience using data manipulation tools (e.g. Qlikview, Business Objects, Lumira, SmartView, SQL, SAS)