Business Systems Architect
About The Position
The Business Systems Architect serves as the principal functional and strategic partner between Supply Chain Operations, Core Finance, and IT Engineering. The role leads the design, modernization, and governance of enterprise systems supporting global standard costing, inventory valuation, landed cost calculations, intercompany fulfilment, and financial close. The architect leads cross-functional requirements discovery and design, producing business requirements documents, functional design specifications, process maps, and Agile epics and stories with testable acceptance criteria. The role drives process re-engineering to reduce manual reconciliations and financial close latency while improving ledger transparency. The position drives functional solution design and configuration for cost accounting and BOM costing, inventory and landed cost, and intercompany and transfer-pricing capabilities. It partners with Integration Engineers and Solution Architects to connect ERP modules with supply-chain data lakes and warehouses. The role oversees testing, financial controls, cutover, data migration, and post-implementation stabilization. It also leads Agile execution and backlog prioritization as a functional product owner, mentors team members, and evaluates automation, AI/analytics tools, and ERP enhancements to modernize the Supply Chain finance technology stack.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting/Finance, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of demonstrated success as a Business Systems Analyst, Solution Architect, or Lead Functional Consultant in Supply Chain Finance / Cost Accounting.
- Comprehensive expertise in US GAAP accounting standards, cost of goods sold (COGS), inventory accounting, and sub-ledger to GL reconciliation.
Nice To Haves
- Proven experience with Tier-1 ERP platforms, including Oracle Cloud ERP or Oracle EBS Financials & SCM.
- Strong SQL skills for data profiling, discrepancy diagnosis, and validation.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, REST/SOAP APIs, and enterprise analytics tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, and Snowflake.
- Use of AI tools and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional requirements discovery and design sessions with Supply Chain Finance leaders, Cost Accounting, and Tax stakeholders.
- Produce Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Design Specifications (FDS), process maps, and Agile epics and stories with testable acceptance criteria.
- Spearhead process re-engineering to eliminate manual reconciliations, reduce financial close latency, and improve ledger transparency.
- Drive functional solution design and configuration for standard costing, cost rollups, Purchase Price Variance (PPV), and manufacturing work-in-progress (WIP) accounting.
- Design and configure inventory valuation models, freight and duties capitalization, in-transit inventory, and inventory reserve automation.
- Design and configure automated intercompany invoicing, markup allocation, and multi-tier OEM/contract manufacturing settlement.
- Partner with Integration Engineers and Solution Architects to integrate ERP modules with supply-chain data lakes and warehouses.
- Direct end-to-end testing strategies, including System Integration Testing (SIT), regression suites, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Oversee SOX controls, segregation of duties, and financial audit compliance across system enhancements.
- Lead cutover orchestration, data migration integrity checks, and post-implementation stabilization.
- Drive Agile sprint execution and backlog prioritization as a functional product owner.
- Mentor and guide junior business analysts and technical team members.
- Evaluate emerging automation, AI/analytics tooling, and ERP enhancements to modernize the Supply Chain finance technology stack.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, subject to plan eligibility rules.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock unit grants, subject to continued employment and vesting periods.
- Paid holidays, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year and a floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
- A paid day off for an employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and four paid personal wellness days.
- Paid vacation: non-exempt employees receive 16 days per full calendar year, accrued for full-time employees; exempt employees participate in a flexible vacation time off program with no defined usage limit, subject to availability and business limitations.
- 80 hours of sick time provided on hire and each January 1, with up to 80 unused hours carried forward.
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family-member issues.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year.
- Employees in non-sales roles are eligible to earn annual bonuses, subject to Cisco policies.
- Sales-plan employees may earn performance-based incentive pay subject to the applicable Cisco plan.
- Employees in Illinois participate in a unique time-off program to meet local requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
