Applications Architect - Finance
- Location
- Tulsa, OK
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Job Description: The Technical Application Architect serves as the primary liaison between Finance, Accounting, SAP, and IT teams, ensuring alignment across business processes, applications, and technology initiatives. This role leads cross-functional coordination for application portfolios, supports new system implementations, manages vendor relationships and technology investments, and drives process improvements across integrated platforms.
Acting as a trusted partner to business and technical stakeholders, the Technical Application Architect facilitates collaboration across teams, identifies integration opportunities, aligns solutions with enterprise architecture standards, and promotes adoption of emerging technologies and best practices. Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technology partner for Finance, Accounting, Procurement, SAP, and IT stakeholders.
- Own the application portfolio roadmap and align technology investments with business strategy.
- Lead demand intake, backlog prioritization, and cross-team delivery planning.
- Support application implementations, enhancements, and transformation initiatives in partnership with the IT PMO.
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions to define requirements, resolve issues, and drive stakeholder alignment.
- Oversee application integrations, data flows, and dependencies across enterprise systems.
- Partner with Enterprise Architects, SAP teams, and developers to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards.
- Manage relationships with software vendors, AMS providers, and implementation partners.
- Support application budgets, contract negotiations, renewals, licensing, and cost optimization efforts.
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes, automate workflows, and increase operational efficiency.
- Support governance, risk management, compliance, and audit requirements related to enterprise applications.
• Research emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve business outcomes and platform capabilities.
- Research emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve business outcomes and platform capabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Finance, Accounting, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5–7 years of experience as a Technical Business Systems Analyst or enterprise applications delivery
- Hands-on experience supporting Procurement processes in multiple ERP systems (SAP S/4HANA included)
• Strong experience gathering and aligning requirements across multiple teams
- Strong experience gathering and aligning requirements across multiple teams
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA (FI-AP)
- Experience with SAP Ariba (procurement and supplier lifecycle integration)
- Experience working with multiple ERP systems and participating in ERP implementations or migrations (including S/4HANA transformations)
- Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar tools for backlog and delivery management
- Exposure to implementing invoice automation tools and workflow platforms
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation programs
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation programs
- Strategic ownership of Finance applications
- SAP S/4HANA, Ariba, Workiva, BlackLine
- Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Audit, and IT alignment
- Roadmap and demand management
- AMS/vendor coordination
- Governance and prioritization
• Cross-functional delivery leadership
- Cross-functional delivery leadership
- Enterprise systems thinking
- Cross-functional stakeholder alignment
- Integration and data flow analysis
- Strong communication and facilitation skills
- Problem-solving across complex system landscapes
- Driving delivery and execution across multiple teams and systems
From AAON, Inc.'s careers page (Workday), checked 29 Oct 2026.
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Posted 21 Oct 2026 · checked 29 Oct 2026 · Report this job