Business Architect Finance NL in Amsterdam

Our question

• Do you want to design and coordinate the development of the newest solutions to enable data driven Financial Reporting & Analysis?
• Do you live up to the challenge of bringing our finance application environment to a higher level?
• Are you the person that thinks outside the box, and creates new solutions for the challenges of the future?
• Do you deliver tangible results?

Your work environment

Finance Information Management, which is part of Finance within ING Domestic Bank Netherlands, is looking for a strong Finance Business Architect, working on designing the target environment for our financial reporting. Besides design you will also be involved in coordinating the implementation of the target architecture.

In Finance Information Management we enable the delivery of valuable and reliable financial information and data of high quality to fulfil ING’s reporting obligations and to support decision making both for Financial Accounting and Finance Business Advice.

The team continuously adapts to changes in the bank’s business, its products, processes and IT infrastructure, to ensure proper reflection in the financial and management reporting. Together with the end users, the team is responsible to ensure we continuously comply with the changing regulatory reporting and data requirements. Changes are delivered in accordance with the Finance strategy, regulatory requirements, and business changes. Information Management consists of a team of 24 people, most of them Business Analysts working in squads with Dev Engineers.

Within a challenging environment, full of deadlines, new regulations, and challenging demands we give the opportunity to experiment, learn and adapt to bring the best possible future proof solutions to the department. But with the mindset that our purpose is to bring value to our stakeholders.

Your role and responsibilities

As Business Architect Finance you will work as a trusted advisor of the management team regarding our finance information environment. Recently the foundation of the target architecture has been designed and we are now making the first steps in the implementation. Based on this foundation, further improvements and automation of our reporting needs to be established. You will further develop the finance architecture, to support the vision and plans of the Finance department and create a roadmap to realise the target architecture. You will align with enterprise architects to follow finance architectural developments at Group and assess its impact on Finance NL. Also, you will follow architectural developments in our product domains and assess the impact on the Finance NL architecture.

Additionally, you will act as the Business Analyst Chapter Lead of a group of around 6 Business Analyst.

Your main activities will be:

• Design and update of the Finance NL target architecture to support the Finance vision and plans, aligned with Finance stakeholders
• In close cooperation with the squads involved, develop a roadmap and follow the implementation of the target architecture
• In close cooperation with the manager of Information Management, Product Owners of the squads and the IT lead, you will further detail the architecture and the roadmap.
• You will align with Product Domain Architects and Enterprise Architects how the Finance NL architecture connects to the product domains and Group Finance, and find suitable solutions for challenges.
• You will validate, in cooperation with the squads, the solution designs proposed in new changes
• You will support the managers of the reporting, accounting and FBA teams to find solutions for further optimisation of the E2E process and support in the implementation
• You will manage a team of 6 Business Analysts, supporting them on their development and craftmanship.

How to succeed 

You are a pro-active, dedicated, and independent thinker who takes responsibility and initiative to get the work done. You can deliver. You love to innovate and from nature you are curious, proactive and challenge the status quo. You are people oriented. And you have proven experience as an architect in a finance reporting environment. Furthermore, you have:

• A Bachelor or Master degree;
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in optimisation and implementation of finance processes and architecture
• Strong (Finance) IT experience
• Experience in (Retail) Banking Products is beneficial
• Working experience with Agile and Lean is a plus
• Strong people skills
• Experience as a manager is a plus

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions .  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience 
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract 
• Pension scheme 
• 13th month salary 
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary 
• 8% Holiday payment 
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities 
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues 
• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster 

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About us 

With 57,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!