Financial Systems Solution Architect

Location: Lakewood, CO (Denver). Open to Remote.

Contact: Email resume to David Kellogg, Sr. Recruiter at the Judge Group – dkellogg@judge.com

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Financial Systems Analyst to support and enhance our Planning, Consolidation, and Financial Reporting platforms. This role serves as a key liaison between Finance, IT, and business stakeholders, ensuring the effective operation, integration, and continuous improvement of enterprise financial systems.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), financial reporting, accounting systems, and cloud-based planning/consolidation platforms. This position will be responsible for managing system administration, data integrations, reporting solutions, and system enhancements while supporting budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and management reporting processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise Planning, Consolidation, and Reporting systems.
• Manage data integrations between financial systems and source platforms, including SAP, Azure Data Lake, Power BI, and other business applications.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between Finance and IT for system-related initiatives and support.
• Lead system enhancement projects, including requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, and user adoption.
• Monitor, test, and deploy system upgrades, new functionality, and releases.
• Manage business rules, calculations, allocations, hierarchies, and reporting structures supporting budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and actual reporting processes.
• Configure and optimize system settings, workflows, and customizations to meet changing business needs.
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, governance, and retention through the implementation of standardized processes and best practices.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, analytics solutions, and financial reporting tools.
• Design user-friendly reporting environments that provide rapid access to financial data and insights.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data, integration, reporting, and application issues.
• Maintain system security, user access controls, and role-based permissions.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable system solutions.
• Create and maintain system documentation, process guides, user manuals, and training materials.
• Deliver training and support to end users and finance stakeholders.
• Perform ad hoc analysis and reporting to support business needs.
• Mentor junior team members and share system knowledge and best practices.
• Provide backup support across critical financial systems to ensure business continuity.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Master's degree preferred.

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), financial reporting, accounting, financial analytics, or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of experience administering, supporting, developing, or implementing cloud-based financial planning, consolidation, or reporting platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning or OneStream is required.
• Experience with enterprise financial systems such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, OneStream, or similar platforms.
• Experience implementing financial software solutions is strongly preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience creating reports, dashboards, and analytics solutions using tools such as Power BI, Excel, Power Pivot, SQL, and related Microsoft technologies.
• Experience performing data validation, testing, and quality assurance activities.
• Experience working within multinational organizations and multi-currency environments is preferred.

Required Skills

• Strong financial systems administration and support expertise.
• Experience with financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation processes.
• Advanced reporting, dashboard development, and data visualization capabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data integrity, and reporting best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer service skills.
• Ability to train, support, and influence business users across multiple functions.
• Self-motivated professional capable of working independently and managing multiple priorities.
• Proven ability to lead small-to-medium sized projects using project management best practices.
• Working knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, and corporate finance processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning and/or OneStream implementations.
• Experience integrating financial systems with SAP, Azure Data Lake, and Power BI environments.
• Knowledge of master data management and governance best practices.
• Experience supporting manufacturing organizations and complex global operations.

Employment Type

Full-Time

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