Finance Domain Industry Architect

Infor is looking for a talented Senior Finance Solution Architect to join Infor’s Product Management team as we build momentum for our next generation of Cloud Financial Software. This is a key role for a domain expert who combines deep knowledge of accounting software with a practical understanding of modern software development, product design, and technology delivery. The successful candidate will bring both financial expertise and technical awareness, helping to bridge the gap between customer expectations, product strategy, architecture, and development execution.

Since the launch of Infor's multi-tenant cloud financial solutions, we have achieved consistent year-on-year growth and established a strong global customer base across multiple industries. Building on this success, Infor is undertaking one of the most significant investments in the future of its financial product portfolio, by modernizing and rearchitecting its Cloud Financial platform through a comprehensive end-to-end transformation program.

Working closely with Product Management, Architecture, Development, UX, Business Analysis teams, and senior stakeholders, the Senior Finance Solution Architect will act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, helping to translate complex finance requirements into cohesive product and technology outcomes.

A Typical Day in the Life Includes:

• Provide expert guidance on how finance users work across end-to-end processes and modules, ensuring the future platform delivers intuitive, efficient, and connected user experiences that reflect real-world finance operations.
• Act as the finance domain expert within the Product Management organization, translating modern finance needs, market insight, and competitive intelligence into clear high-level guidance for product direction.
• Work closely with Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Architecture, Development, and UX teams to shape product strategy, validate requirements, and influence design decisions across the future finance platform.
• Monitor market trends, competitor offerings, regulatory developments, and emerging finance technologies to identify opportunities, risks, and capability gaps that should influence future product direction.
• Provide expert guidance across key finance processes and ensure the future platform supports efficient, controlled, and scalable finance operations, including:
• Advising on the design of controlled, auditable month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, including journals, reconciliations, approvals, reporting, and period locking.
• Advising on governance, approval models, internal controls, segregation of duties, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, traceability, and transparent financial process execution.
• Shaping requirements for accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting, dashboards, and analytics that support business decision-making.
• Ensuring the platform supports complex organizational structures, multiple legal entities, currencies, tax requirements, regions, and global finance operating models.
• Evaluate, test, and help shape the future finance solution to ensure it is intuitive, efficient, and aligned with the day-to-day needs of finance professionals.
• Represent the needs of finance leaders, controllers, accountants, auditors, and CFOs throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring the solution remains relevant, competitive, intuitive, and aligned with modern finance operating models.
• Provide an independent finance industry perspective that complements customer, partner, and internal stakeholder feedback, challenging assumptions and proposed approaches using real-world finance experience and knowledge of market-leading solutions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CPA etc)
• Significant experience in senior finance, finance systems, finance transformation, or financial software advisory roles.
• Strong understanding of ERP/Accounting Software
• Practical knowledge of financial accounting, reporting, governance, controls, compliance, audit requirements, and finance operating models.
• Ability to translate finance needs, process challenges, and market insight into clear product requirements, recommendations, and design guidance.
• Able to communicate effectively with finance stakeholders, product teams, technical teams, and senior internal stakeholders.
• Confident analyzing and documenting complex finance processes, requirements, and business scenarios.
• Highly collaborative, proactive, analytical, and comfortable working across multiple initiatives in a fast-moving environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Infor’s competing enterprise financial management products.
• Strong knowledge of competitor products, market positioning, emerging finance technologies, and how these influence product strategy.
• Experience working within Agile product development environments, providing domain expertise and collaborating with cross-functional teams to refine requirements, shape solution design, influence delivery priorities, and validate business outcomes.
• Experience applying Artificial Intelligence, automation, analytics, or workflow optimization within finance processes.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

About Infor

Infor is where ambition meets impact. Join a global community of bold thinkers and innovators, where your expertise doesn't just solve problems. it shapes industries, unlocks opportunities, and creates real-world impact for billions of people. At Infor, you're not just building a career. you're helping to build what's next.

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software products for companies in industry specific markets. Infor builds complete industry suites in the cloud and efficiently deploys technology that puts the user experience first, leverages data science, and integrates easily into existing systems.