Director, Finance Technology Architect

at  Live Nation

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THE ROLE

The Director of Financial Systems Architect reports to the Vice President of Financial Systems Analytics for a major Entertainment company. The successful candidate will be responsible for acting as liaison between Finance and other business units and IT. Understanding the needs and priorities of the business, Director will establish, drive and enforce overall global financial system architecture and standards throughout the business. Director will be responsible for leading project team(s) (e.g., business users, outsourced providers, database, infrastructure etc.) to deliver multiple, simultaneous projects that could span across several business or technology areas.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Participate in definition and implementation of the Enterprise Application strategy in alignment with the overall IT and Business strategy, including roadmap and release management, as well as continuously check effectiveness and propose improvements.
• Actively provide expertise and guidance on the Oracle Cloud ERP implantation project and provide subject matter expertise and educate business users and functional team.
• Provide functional - and technical specifications for support ERP resources that are involved in build phases.
• Ensure technical interoperability and data flows with neighboring IT domains (e.g., Workday, SAP B1, Salesforce, Concur, and multiple other applications
• Work with business stakeholders to define business cases, identify potential system prospects (including definition of selection criteria), select best-fit-solutions and setup solid implementation plans.
• Perform (and supervise) detailed requirement workshops with end-users translating them into detailed system purchases, configuration, enhancements, and program modifications. Facilitate project/ enhancement governance and prioritization.
• Review functional and technical design solutions to meet business needs
• Perform business and financial analysis of strategic projects to ensure proper cost/value relationship, helping to reduce risk and focus investment more efficiently.
• Effectively collaborate with IT team to ensure exchange of business information, develop innovative approaches to problem solving, and continuously seek ways to improve communication
• Works with business areas in understanding problems and pain points, identifying process and/or system improvements to resolve them.