Business Solutions Architect II

Freeport-McMoRan is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. We operate large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold, and molybdenum. The company has a dynamic portfolio of operating, expansion and growth projects in the copper industry. Freeport-McMoRan is one of the world’s largest publicly traded copper producers, the world’s largest producer of molybdenum and a significant gold producer. We have a long and successful history of conducting our business in a safe, highly efficient and socially-responsible manner.

We have the assets, the talent, the drive and the financial strength to provide attractive and rewarding careers of our employees. We encourage you to take the time to explore the opportunity to advance your career at Freeport-McMoRan.

Description

Identify and realize opportunities and initiatives in the following areas: Information Systems, Business Process Design, and Continuous Improvement. Analyze existing or proposed systems, to include implementation, integration, monitoring and optimizing strategies, process, systems and methodologies to support department operations, corporate objectives and initiatives. Maintain continued support of the current financial system including upgrades or reimplementation of the platform.  

• Manage early “Initiation” activities for system solutions to meet business needs for business areas
• Ensure system analysis designs and process maps are documented and communicated with business executives and senior management
• Work closely with business areas globally, define business-centric MIS requirements and evaluate available and/or custom system solution options
• Analyze business and systems needs in terms of functional and technical requirements including MIS, Process Technology and business process solutions portions of proposed solutions
• Mange appropriate action based on proposed solutions
• Work with the custom, packaged, business intelligence, and operations platform project teams on building and executing business systems project plans and support
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to identify key suppliers, strategic alliances, and required process improvements
• Work with business process owners to understand tactical and strategic plans to support business processes and operations
• Identify MIS related user satisfaction issues within assigned business processes
• Communicate issues to MIS management and lead resolution of these issues within MIS
• Provide MIS assistance to production support, including system configuration, system monitoring, and updating interfaces with customer business processes
• May coach other team members to develop stronger functional and technical skills for the applications which they are aligned to support
• Where applicable, lead and motivate Business Analysts and other platform employees
• Stay current on new business processes and/or new technologies that may impact business operations, process and information systems technology and methodology strategies, facilitation techniques and project management concepts
• Perform other duties as requested

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience in Information Services, Process Technology field including four (4) years of Project Management experience on medium to large system implementations
• Working knowledge of SOX 404, HAL, Hyperion Enterprise
• Knowledge of requirements development, requirements analysis and operations management

Preferred

• Four (4) years of experience managing IT projects

Criteria/Conditions

• Ability to understand and apply verbal and written work and safety-related instructions and procedures given in English
• Ability to communicate in English with respect to job assignments, job procedures, and applicable safety standards
• Must be able to work in a potentially stressful environment
• Position is in busy, non-smoking office located in downtown Phoenix, AZ
• Location requires mobility in an office environment; each floor is accessible by elevator
• Occasionally work may be performed in a mine, outdoor or manufacturing plant setting
• Must be able to frequently, sit, stand, and walk
• Must be able to frequently lift and carry up to ten (10) pounds
• Personal protective equipment is required when performing work in a mine, outdoor, manufacturing or plant environment, including hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, safety footwear, and as needed, respirator, rubber steel-toe boots, pr