Principal - Architect (Finance)

Company Description

You’re talented and adaptable. That’s why you’ll fit in.As well as discovering, mining and processing many of the essential raw materials that enable, support and enhance modern life, our global business is involved in selling and marketing products – copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal, nickel and diamonds. Through our Marketing Business, we are able to offer innovative solutions to meet our customers’ specific challenges. This includes physical products, logistics and technical support, as well as pricing and financing solutions.The purpose of Marketing Information Management (IM) is to enable the delivery of business processes, compliance, controls and decision support through the deployment, support and maintenance of Marketing wide front, middle and back office technology applications and infrastructure.Job Description

Marketing IM requires an experienced Enterprise Architect with strong technical skills in SAP, Quantum and other finance solutions, Microsoft Stack technologies and Azure services with experience of Finance, Tax and Treasury to join our team. The role holder will play a critical role in setting the technology strategy, roadmap, and design-direction for software systems for the finance solutions. They will be trusted advisors and innovation partners to the Marketing business and combine expert knowledge in Microsoft technologies with their commodity trading value chain experience to harness technology in support of delivering safe, secure, resilient solutions to enable the Marketing business.KEY TASKSPerformance & DeliveryResponsible for the overall architecture related to the Finance solutions.Develop enterprise-wide architecture strategy and design future-ready ecosystems that meet the strategic requirements of the business.Be a trusted advisor to a range of stakeholders. Provide consultancy and influence senior leadership teams. Facilitate decisions ensuring the agreed solution balances functional fit, cost, service quality and systems management requirements at a high level. Drive out adoption of new technology and re-use of existing technology decisions as appropriate.Key contributor to the wider Marketing IM Architecture strategy and roadmap, that meets the requirements of the business. Facilitating development of enterprise-wide solutions that include business and technology capabilities and defining and communicating the current and future state architecture for a business portfolio including roadmaps and technology investment prioritization.Provide architectural leadership to multi-disciplinary teams and drive architecture workshops, review boards, and collaboration sessions.Provide consultancy in the start-up phase of projects to ensure high-level solution assurance as well as providing high-level design assurance throughout project delivery.Understand production plan, identify, and manage project design dependencies and design decisions, and provide support for identifying resource expertise based on solution complexity and design.Review and challenge the high-level cost of proposed solutions ensuring cost covers all aspects of technical elements, infrastructure, work breakdown and resource cost.Effectively engage and manage key stakeholder relationships collaboratively within the architecture community and the wider capabilities of Marketing IM, Group IM, Digital, third party vendors, and within relevant business areas.Modernize the Marketing architecture, leveraging the latest trends in the technology, including determining the right platforms and architecture with scalability consideration.Thought leadership & Innovation:Responsible for capturing, prioritizing, incubating, and exploiting market and environmental trends to the benefit of Marketing, working in collaboration with colleagues from the business, Digital, BI and Group IM.Proactive contributor to the Architecture Community of Practice, encouraging innovation amongst the community and supporting individuals and teams to share creative ideas and learn from failures.Ambassador for innovation, with the ability to connect relevant technology advancements with opportunity for business strategy execution.Quality & Controls:Defining and implementing architectural quality controls, standards, and practices to ensure compliance and cohesion between business and technology strategy and Marketing transformation activities.Responsibility for defining and maintaining best-practice, high value, architecture artefacts.Qualifications

Role-specific knowledge:In depth Functional and Technical expertise in Finance solutionsProven experience working in a commodities/financial environment in strategic IT roles at senior technical levelExperience of SAP and other third party products implementations involving multiple entitiesDeeper understanding of the Finance and performance reporting, tax and treasury management process.Expert in using enterprise solution architecture tools and techniquesExpert of architecture governance and design assurance processesExperience of Commodities value chain (Trade Lifecycle), Contract to cashKnowledge of Physical and Financial markets in mining or commodities industry.A proven track record of delivering business value from technology by aiding clients to develop and govern their enterprise architectureDeeper understanding and knowledge of digital trends in commodities Finance spaceStrong working knowledge of the latest digital and emerging technology solutions and how these can be leveraged to business advantage.Proven experience of project and programme delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall etc)Demonstrated understanding of architecture deliverables through the project life cycle based on complexity and timeline of projects/programmesExperience of working in a multi-vendor and supplier environment, maximising value delivered from Marketing IM’s investment in Microsoft servicesGood stakeholder engagement and influencing skills with colleagues, partners / vendors & project sponsorsExperience of developing enterprise architectures in large corporate environments, including strategy formulation, roadmap development and target architecturesThe ability to negotiate complex issues and how to reach a consensus with key stakeholders through an understanding of modern technologiesDemonstrate experience in participating in large scale software development projects, providing advice, guidance and architectural services into engineering teams and programme delivery teamsDevelopment and Technology:SAP (FM, Ariba, AFC),FIS Quantum, Anaplan, BlacklineExperience with various structure and unstructured data solutionsDeep understanding and experience of creating cloud based microservices architecture with Azure/AWS cloudExperience working in an Agile development environmentDeep understanding of Azure DevOpsExperience designing analytics solutions driving insights from large data setsStrong experience of business driven and test-driven developmentAdditional Information

Who We AreAnglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world.As a responsible miner – of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel – we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.What We OfferCompetitive salary and benefits packageAmazing opportunities for learning and growth - from technical training to leadership programs, we bring out the best in our peopleWe’re a large, successful multinational company and there are plenty of opportunities internally to move onwards and upwards tooInclusion and DiversityAnglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.How To ApplyTo apply for this role, please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of this process.

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