Business Architect

What You'll Do

You will have the opportunity to be a valuable member of the Finance Transformation Office leading the transformation of capabilities & processes. Business architect will collaborate with collaborators & IT partners to design digital capabilities & deliver outcomes supporting company strategy.

The responsibilities include but not limited to..

• Engage with the business partners at different levels of hierarchy to understand business strategy and identify various outcomes
• Build a digitization roadmap of process, policy, people & data/system changes to achieve the business outcomes
• Partner with collaborators to build case and create portfolio proposals to achieve the outcomes
• Collaborate with IT architects to create a scalable solution architecture blue print for the outcomes
• Obtain executive consensus for Key Business Decisions & Key Design Decisions
• Write, Review and validate business requirements
• Lead x-functional implementation team to deliver the capabilities end-to-end with high quality
• Implement standard methodologies/processes/tools and mentor the team on the same
• Lead multi-functional business and system process improvement
• Manage multiple assignments effectively
• Lead efforts in evaluation and selection of third party software, vendors and/or service providers.

Who You'll Work With

Finance Transformation Office plays a key role in enabling critical company strategies such as operationalization of monetization models, sales strategies, country expansion. The team finds ways to support these strategies while keeping the focus on compliance and controls. The team works with many functions within the enterprise rationalizing policies, identifying capabilities, and designing processes that enable the digitization of enterprise.

You will have the opportunity to work with this team of intellects, who constantly find innovative ways to transform decade old processes/systems to scale for new markets/monetization models.

Who You Are

You have got experience crafting/implementing solutions in ERP in Quote to Report (including pricing) process areas. You are self driven and demonstrate the can-do attitude to achieve the outcomes. You are capable of breaking sophisticated business problems into solvable issues. You have strong exposure to Oracle Applications as an architect or as an end user.

Our Minimum requirements for this role:

• 7+ years of experience in business analysis and solution design in Quote to Cash / Report process area in Oracle Financials. Sound knowledge of business process areas such as: Invoice to Cash, Accounting, GL, Fixed Asset
• Additional experience and knowledge of Partner Management, Partner and Disti finance is a plus.
• Experience in analyzing and building solutions in areas of Accounting and Financial Reporting is critical. Ability to translate unstructured requirements/pain points into logical requirements/solutions a key characteristic of yours. Ability to work with Business/IT on requirements / solution designs/trade-offs to meet viable products with ability to scope solutions in multiple phases.
• Knowledge of Rev-rec standards, different revenue architectures, hardware, software, on-prem/hosted, perpetual/subscription based, new offer models, annuities and the processes associated with non-standard revenue recognition processes, revenue assurance processes is a key to success in this job
• Superior Presentation skills. Solid experience in preparing BRD (Biz Requirement), MD50 (Functional Specification), BR100 (Configuration), Solution design documents, Test Strategy/plan, and Training Materials.
• Experience in release methodologies (AIM, Waterfall, Agile)
• Should have played lead roles in at least 3+ ERP implementations.
• Superb communication and relationship management skill.
• Background in technology, MCA.Engineering and/or Bachelors in Finance

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

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