Business Architecture Solutions Lead, Firmwide Planning & Analysis

Job summary

As an Analytics Solution Vice President in the Business Architecture team, you help design and modernize how we forecast and budget. You use your finance, data, and process design expertise to streamline planning and analysis and translate opportunities into scalable solutions for the finance community. You work hands-on across advisory, architecture, development, and delivery to connect processes, data products, and models into a cohesive experience.

Job responsibilities

Rearchitect and streamline end-to-end forecasting and budgeting business processes

Translate business needs into designs, prototypes, and production-ready solutions

Hands on build of working proofs of concept to validate approaches and accelerate delivery of new tools

Contribute to the design and architecture of forecasting and budgeting capabilities, from data sourcing through downstream consumption

Analyse complex, cross-functional problems, define, validate and deliver actionable solutions,

Partner with stakeholders across Finance and Technology to develop strategic solutions and support transformation objectives

Drive delivery of projects that span multiple teams and functions

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with ability to work independently and bring structure to ambiguous problems

Strong experience in financial planning, forecasting, and modeling, including analysis of a variety of finance and workforce datasets

Deeply data-driven. Hands-on experience working with detailed data, evaluating quantified trade-offs, and validating new approaches against current-state

Experience designing scalable solutions and rearchitecting business processes across multiple functions

Ability to collaborate with and influence global teams in a fast-paced, results-driven environment

Strong communication skills to articulate complex concepts to varied audiences, including product demonstrations

Experience working in a product environment, with knowledge of product management, agile methodologies, and the software development life cycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

Experience defining or evolving forecasting and budgeting methodologies in the financial services sector

Understanding of data models and experience working with large datasets

Experience with SQL or Python