Business Solution Architect

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

English - Advanced (C1)

For higher experienced targets:
Candidates should have either an IT background with demonstrated business acumen, or financial background gained in the IT industry. Ideally, candidates should have been involved in winning outsourcing contracts or advising clients in the procurement of these contracts. Specific experience should include:
• Very Strong MS Excel skills with a high degree of comfort using, building, and tracing complex excel formulas
• Experience developing price to win analyses for competitive, large and complex opportunities using both top-down and bottom-up methodologies
• Experience in offering development, solution development, or transaction support (pricing, costing, finance) with a high comfort level of handling ambiguity or imperfect information and driving above level leaders to optimum decisions
• Excellent communicator, both verbally and written, in a variety of environments with a demonstrated ability to adapt to a meeting’s changing social dynamics while maintaining a client centric view
• Adept at handling a changing workload and priorities across individual work assignments, aligned team projects, and individually generated contributions to team’s capabilities. A desire to learn and to teach is critical
• Participation in Bid/No Bid reviews and Win Strategy workshops
• High level of proficiency with delivery & location strategies, staffing models, and productivity levers
• Familiarity with data and offerings from external IT advisors such as Everest, Gartner, ISG, HfS, Forrester, etc
• Client business case development & presentation
• Price & Commercial Negotiation
• Experience with Access, Tableau, or Qlikview a bonus
• Design thinking approach to work products
• High level of financial and solution acumen
• Business level fluency in English and one of the following languages: Italian, German, French, Spanish would be an advantage

For less experienced targets:
Candidates should have either an IT background with interest in learning the commercial and business aspects of the business, or financial background working in the IT industry with an interest in learning the technical and business solution aspects of the business. Specific experience should include:
• Very Strong MS Excel skills with a high degree of comfort using, building, and tracing complex excel formulas
• Successful track record of developing analysis incorporating disparate information sources to drive new insights resulting in business actions yielding positive ROI
• Excellent communicator, both verbally and written, in a variety of environments with a demonstrated ability to adapt to a meeting’s changing social dynamics while maintaining a client centric view
• A high comfort level of handling ambiguity or imperfect information and driving senior leadership to optimal decisions
• Experience in offering development, solution development, or transaction support: Pricing, Costing, Forecasting, FP&A, or M&A
• Adept at handling a changing workload and priorities across individual work assignments, aligned team projects, and individually generated contributions to team’s capabilities. A desire to learn and to teach is critical
• Able to identify competition, market & industry dynamics, and assess the impact on a specific opportunity
• Demonstrable consultative, influence, and negotiation skills across professional or personal situations
• Sought after to develop and deliver client (internal or external) presentations
• Experience with Access, Tableau, or Qlikview a bonus
• Design thinking approach to work products
• Business level fluency in English and one of the following languages: Italian, German, French, Spanish would be an advantage

Education and Experience Required:
• Bachelor’s degree
• Master’s degree and/or financial certifications preferred (CPA, CFA, CMA, etc)
• 5-8 years of experience
• Solution, Delivery, Finance or Accounting experience with the IT industry

Education and Experience Required:
• Technical University degree or Bachelor's degree preferred
• 2-5 years of experience
• Solution, Delivery, Finance or Accounting experience with the IT industry preferred