Senior Business Architect

IMPORTANT NOTICE: 

- The deadline for applications is indicated in local date and time.

- This post is a project post.

1.     Organizational Context

a.    Organizational Setting

The post of Senior ERP Business Architect is located in the Enterprise Business Capabilities Section, Enterprise Solutions Division (ESD), Department of Program Planning and Finance. The Enterprise Solutions Division is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of WIPO’s portfolio of ERP Administrative and Management applications collectively known as the Administrative Integrated Management System (AIMS). AIMS portfolio of products includes a combination of commercials off the shelf (COTS) and custom developed applications based on Oracle Hyperion, Taleo, PeopleSoft FSCM and HCM, Acuity Stream (for Risk Management) and others.

b.    Purpose Statement

This is a project post under the approved Capital Master Plan AIMS 2.0 Transformation project. WIPO/AIMS is embarking on a large modernization, involving the migration of existing applications to Cloud platforms, as well as renewing its applications landscape.

The main role of the incumbent is to engage with business stakeholders and deliver the capabilities  analysis and process updates requirements to support the AIMS Transformation CMP initiative, with focus in particular, but not limited to, the transition of HCM, FSCM and ELM applications.

c.    Reporting Lines

The incumbent works under the supervision of the Enterprise Business Capabilities Section Head.

2.      Duties and Responsibilities

The incumbent will perform the following principal duties:

a.   Lead the business engagement’s project team consisting of internal members and external service providers; empower and motivate the team and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality; monitor and evaluate team performance against plans.

b.   Coordinates the gathering and translation of business requirements into capabilities, streamline existing processes via process re-engineering, taking into account existing cross-functional end-to-end processes and future needs.

c.   Seeks ways to drive adoption of new technology and reuse existing technology with the aim of targeting the realization of business capabilities, value streams and business processes.

d.   Leads, in collaboration with business teams and stakeholders, the design thinking, business modeling, ecosystem modeling, innovation management, IT investment analysis, and operating model design.

e.   Participate in the elaboration of documents for tendering exercises, evaluate responses and coordinate the selection of service providers and vendors.

f.    Collaborates with project and operational delivery teams - in coordination with solution and technical architects - to ensure continuous delivery of business ERPs outcomes.

g.   Perform other related duties as required.

3.      Requirements

Education (Essential)

Advanced university degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, or a related discipline.  A first-level university degree in one of the afore-mentioned disciplines plus two years of relevant experience in addition to the years of experience requested below may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Education (Desirable)

Certification in Business Process Management (ABPMP, Six Sigma, CBAP etc.).

Certification in project or program management such as PRINCE2, MSP or Agile.

Experience (Essential)

At least seven years of relevant experience in the field of Enterprise Resource Planning, including at least four years of business experience with a direct responsibility in various areas such as digital transformation, strategy formulation and/or translation, business analysis/analytics, business architecture and/or program management.

Experience in process re-engineering.

Experience (Desirable)

Experience in Oracle ERP stack including PeopleSoft.

Experience in an international environment.

Language (Essential)

Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English.

Language (Desirable)

Knowledge of other UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish).

Job Related Competencies (Essential)

Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.

Excellent knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (including hybrid models).

Excellent analytical skills.

Knowledge of business process management, workflow and integration methods and tools.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multi-cultural environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.

4.      Organizational Competencies

1.     Communicating effectively.

2.     Showing team spirit.

3.     Demonstrating integrity.

4.     Valuing diversity.

5.     Producing results.