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.

Total Experience : 12 to 15 Years

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