Enterprise Architect for Finance & Corp Functions (Finance)

Location: Remote eligible in the United States, with on-site presence at the Seneca One Tech Hub in Buffalo, NY, for one week per month. The posting also lists Clanton, Alabama, United States of America.

Salary: $139,700–$232,900 annual (USD); the applicable range may vary by location.

Company

M&T Bank is a regional financial institution founded in 1856 that invests in technology, data, and processes supporting customer outcomes, resilience, regulatory compliance, and sustainable growth.

What you will do

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture strategies, target-state architectures, capability models, reference patterns, roadmaps, and transition plans for Finance and Corporate Functions.
• Maintain Finance architectures covering ERP, enterprise performance management, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, consolidation, treasury, tax, financial planning and analysis, financial close, reporting, and Oracle Financials products.
• Guide Oracle Financials and corporate-platform modernization, including SaaS adoption, upgrades, integrations, data conversion, controls, and retirement of redundant capabilities.
• Define cross-platform patterns for master and reference data, identity, segregation of duties, controls automation, records retention, regulatory reporting, and authoritative data sources.
• Evaluate vendors and platforms for enterprise fit, functional coverage, integration, cost, resilience, third-party risk, and duplication avoidance.
• Partner with Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Enterprise Risk, Tax, Legal, Facilities, data, cybersecurity, technology, risk, and compliance stakeholders, providing governance and implementation oversight.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of relevant work experience, or a combined minimum of 11 years of higher education and/or relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise, domain, solution, application, or data architecture, including at least 5 years supporting Finance or Corporate Functions platforms.
• Experience architecting ERP, enterprise performance management, general ledger, treasury, financial reporting, procurement, Human Resources, or related enterprise platforms within a complex, regulated organization.
• Experience developing capability models, target-state architectures, reference patterns, roadmaps, and transition plans.
• Experience with SaaS, enterprise integration, identity and access controls, data architecture, vendor evaluation, and platform modernization.
• Ability to influence senior Finance, business, technology, risk, and governance stakeholders and communicate decisions, dependencies, and investment tradeoffs clearly.

Nice to have

• Architecture experience with Oracle Financials, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management, Workday, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Experience with financial close, planning, consolidation, treasury, tax, regulatory reporting, controls automation, or financial data modernization.
• Experience in a large financial institution with complex legacy, regulatory, data lineage, and operational resilience requirements.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture methods and tools, including capability models, value streams, roadmaps, and architecture repositories.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-eligible work arrangement within the United States.
• On-site collaboration at the Seneca One Tech Hub in Buffalo, NY, for one week each month.
• Work within a regional financial institution focused on financial strength, community banking, responsible innovation, resilience, and sustainable growth.
• Market-informed annual compensation range of $139,700–$232,900, subject to location and individual knowledge, skills, and experience.