Solution Architect - Finance
Company: DJO
Location: Denton
Posted on: August 6, 2022
Job Description:
About Enovis---
Job Description:
Enovis Corporation (NYSE: ENOV) is an innovation-driven medical
technology growth company dedicated to developing clinically
differentiated solutions that generate measurably better patient
outcomes and transform workflows. Powered by a culture of
continuous improvement, global talent and innovation, the Company's
extensive range of products, services and integrated technologies
fuels active lifestyles in orthopedics and beyond. For more
information about Enovis, please visit www.enovis.com.
Enovis History
In April of 2022, Colfax, which includes orthopedic leader DJO,
separated from ESAB Corporation and rebranded to Enovis. In
recognition of our successful history of growth and innovation, the
distinctive "O" in our new Enovis logo was deliberately carried
over from our Colfax logo as it represents continuous improvement -
a cornerstone of our business's success that will continue at
Enovis. Enovis is poised to become one of the world's leading
medical technology companies.
Solution Architect-Finance and Accounting
Working as part of the Enterprise Architecture team, the solution
architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA
activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio
of solutions to support the creation of integrated solutions to
enable business operations, and seamless, digital experiences for
our employees, customers, and patients. These solutions enable
Enovis' future-state business capabilities and drive the
organization's targeted business-outcomes. Solutions include
projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies,
processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and
shared application services.
He/she has a deep understanding of Enovis' business goals,
objectives, business outcomes, business capabilities,
value-streams, and business processes. The solution architect
provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks
related to support the development of technology solutions to
ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with
architectural governance and standards. He or she creates
deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be"
and "as is" solutions - including systems (applications, processes,
and information), shared infrastructure services, and shared
application services and components to enable and drive targeted
business outcomes.
With a strong background in Oracle Financials, the Finance and
Accounting Solution Architect position serves as a senior, internal
principal analyst designing advanced technical solutions for the
Finance, Accounting, and FP&A areas. The position will work
closely with the business and the extended IT team to design and
implement technical solutions to support the Finance
Organization.
He/she plans, conducts and directs the analysis of complex,
company-wide, business problems relating to systems. Provides
strategic and technical guidance to identify, evaluate and develop
systems or automated processes. Applies knowledge of industry
trends and technology to drive organizational change. Transforms
strategic company architecture and design principles into specific
systems requirement and specifications. Provides solutions that
meet business requirement and are cost effective. Prepares
specifications for system changes. Re-engineers technical processes
and systems for greater efficiencies with positive impact to
business operations.
Reports To: Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture
Location options:
- If resides in Dallas Texas - Hybrid (Onsite - Remote)
Lewisville, Texas HQ
- If resides in Delaware - Hybrid (Onsite - Remote) Wilmington,
Delaware
- Fully remote option is available candidates outside these 2
locations
Relationships
- Chief Digital and Information Officer
- IT Leadership Team
- Corporate and Business Unit Finance Leaders (CFO, VPs Finance,
Treasury, etc)
- Other Functional Leadership (Privacy, Legal, etc)
- Strategic Vendor Partnerships
Minimum Essential Requirements
- 15 years experience with 7+ years of experience in a leadership
or principal consultant position implementing Oracle, specifically
the Finance modules: GL, AP, FA, AR, AGIS, SLA, Cost Accounting and
iReceivables, and Oracle EPM.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology,
engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent
experience
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and
processing environments
- Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology
trends, and the practical application of existing, new, and
emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating
models
- Good understanding of product management, agile principles and
development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams
by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and
risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
- Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and
roadmaps
- Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives
and technical audiences
- Experience in MedTech or Life Sciences industry required
The Solution Architect will demonstrate competencies across four
key dimensions:
Translates Business Strategy into Solutions Architecture
- Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future
and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise system
designs and change requirements to drive the organization's
targeted business outcomes.
- Understands emerging technology trends within Finance and the
practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Translates business and technical requirements into an
architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and
documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
- Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market
trends, and determines their potential impact on the
enterprise.
- Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference
models and architecture designs to help the architecture review
board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology
investment on the business and IT estate.
- Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies,
platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business
outcomes.
Leads Solutions Design and Analysis
- Leads evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation
of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business
applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy,
business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and
enterprise standards.
- Apply business process and system expertise to bring forth
leading practices in the areas of Finance, Accounting and FP&A:
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Chart of Account
design/setup, Product Costing methods, Financial Reporting,
Sales/VAT taxation, Consolidations, Financial Planning /
Forecasting / Analysis
- Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize
solution development across products, services, projects, and
systems (including applications, technologies, processes and
information).
- Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design
principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems and
dependencies between business and IT.
- Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of
projects or products, working closely with application architects
that manage and design architecture for a single project or product
or initiative.
- Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform
the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and
technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement (systems
of record, differentiation, and innovation).
Orchestrates Solutions Delivery
- Designs and directs the governance activities associated with
ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
- Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution
patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the
enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
- Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product
standards and services, as well as the design of standard and
custom software configurations.
- Supports product managers in EOL (end of life) product
decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services, or
systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and
information).
- Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise
application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by
the solutions architecture).
- Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify
deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the
application, or misalignment with business requirements.
- Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills,
processes, structures, or culture) and financial impact of the
solutions architecture.
Facilitates and Collaborates to Deliver Business Outcomes
- Works closely with the program management office (PMO) to
ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being
promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.
- Works closely with the product owners and product managers to
ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future
business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
- Provides consulting support to application architects within
agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the
overall enterprise architecture.
- Consults with application and infrastructure development
projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to
architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects
to accommodate the solutions architecture.
- Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping
agile teams, product owners, and application architects to align
with the overall enterprise architecture governance and
assurance.
Skills
Extensive knowledge of the Finance modules within the Oracle EBS
R12 Application
- Thorough knowledge of the core financial design within Oracle,
including an understanding of the design of ledgers, Legal
Entities, Set of Books, Subledger accounting rulesExperience with
Asset Tracking, Install base and their integrations to GL and
SLA
- Experience with Financial reporting and consolidation tools
such as Hyperion Financials Management and EPM
- Ability to identify the gaps in standard Oracle and come out
with simple and effective solutions with minimal
customizations
- Excellent knowledge of Oracle e-Business architecture and the
ability to quickly diagnose and solve user reported and system
issues
- Knowledge of 3rd party applications utilized in conjunction
with Oracle such as AP automation applications and their
integration with oracle
- Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology
architecture like business, information, data, network, and
security
- Knowledge of information principles and processes
- Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle
methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software
development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and
stabilize, and DevOps)
- Understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls
- Excellent understanding of application development
methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture
- Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical
and skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work with developers in an in-and-out outsourced
environment
Competencies
- Organizationally savvy, with the ability to navigate
organizational politics.
- Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders
and peers with decision making.
- Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and
nontechnical audiences
- Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and
short-term perspectives of situations
- Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and
requirements into solution architecture requirements
- Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of
solution architecture alternatives
- Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business
problems and propose solutions
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of
new technologies
Characteristics
- Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and
persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams.
- Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific
technology or vendor choice, and is more interested in results than
personal preferences
- Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity
- Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business
outcomes
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead
cross-functional teams
Travel: 25%-30%
Competencies and Behaviors Needed
- Exceptional communicator all employee levels including senior
executives.
- Strong proponent of Enovis values and behaviors
- Drives continuous improvement.
- Effective at building relationships and trust.
- Fact-based problem solver
- Strong collaboration skills across functions and business
platforms.
- Comfortable working in global matrix organization.
- Results-oriented with the ability to make decisions and to
follow-through on programs and policies which have been
developed.
- Bias for action; sense of urgency; self-starter; moves with
speed.
- Focus on delivering results and continuous improvement.
- Agile mind; quick on one's feet.
- Prioritizes for maximum impact.
- Good at synthesizing data and distilling key points.
- Insightful, deductive reasoner, fact-based problem solver.
- Influencing and driving performance without authority.
- Leadership with humility.
Leadership Attributes
Time is Our Most Precious Commodity
- Drives the vital few versus the trivial many, acts with an
extreme sense of urgency
- Sets clear priorities and focuses on the work that will best
achieve commitments
- Manages workload efficiently and effectively
Drives Both Strategic and Day to Day
- Seamlessly operates across the strategic and tactical
- Manages challenges well; solves problems effectively and can
lead change with speed
- Can dive deep into detail to support root cause analysis, yet
understands big picture
Tough-Minded Commitment to Results
- Takes accountability; does what it takes to deliver what is
promised
- Ensures short-term results and sustains long-term
performance
- Exemplifies a working leader; owns initiatives; delegates
effectively yet retain visibility into how work gets done
Creates a Winning Atmosphere
- Fair, decisive, and motivating; fosters followership
- Inspires & aligns teams by setting clear goals, celebrating
wins, and transparent communications
- Actively coaches others; gives and receives feedback openly
Collaboration and Influencing
- Builds consensus with associates using a genuine, respectful
give-and-take approach, where decisions are shared
Equal Employment Opportunity
Enovis provides equal employment opportunities based on merit,
experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to
race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age,
pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status
protected by applicable law. We also strive to provide reasonable
accommodation to employees' beliefs and practices that do not
conflict with Enovis policies and applicable law. We value the
unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with
Enovis.
About Djo Global
DJO Global is a leading global developer, manufacturer and
distributor of high-quality medical devices that provide solutions
for musculoskeletal health, vascular health and pain management.
Our products address the continuum of patient care from injury
prevention to rehabilitation after surgery, injury or from
degenerative disease, enabling people to regain or maintain their
natural motion. Our products are used by orthopedic specialists,
spine surgeons, primary care physicians, pain management
specialists, physical therapists, podiatrists, chiropractors,
athletic trainers and other healthcare professionals. In addition,
many of our medical devices and related accessories are used by
athletes and patients for injury prevention and at-home physical
therapy treatment. Product lines include rigid and soft orthopedic
bracing, hot and cold therapy, bone growth stimulators, vascular
therapy systems and compression garments, therapeutic shoes and
inserts, electrical stimulators used for pain management and
physical therapy products. Our surgical division offers a
comprehensive suite of reconstructive joint products for the hip,
knee and shoulder. Our products are marketed under a portfolio of
brands including Aircast -, Chattanooga, CMF---, Compex -, DonJoy
-, ProCare -, Exos---, Dr. Comfort -, DonJoy Performance - and DJO
- Surgical.
For Additional Information On The Company, Please Visit
Www.DJOglobal.com.
DJO is a growing subsidiary of diversified technology leader Colfax
Corporation
EOE AA M/F/VET/Disability
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race,
religion, color, national origin, sex, protected veteran status,
disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local
laws.
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