Oracle ERP Finance Lead

Job Summary

The ERP Financial Lead’s role is to plan, design, develop, support, and maintain efficient financial and business system enhancements in support of organizational objectives. The position requires the application of proven communication, analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of IT system investments.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing subject matter expertise on one or more Oracle EBS modules including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Billing, and Purchasing. Provide direction for improving functional processes using application’s core functionality.
• Responsible for analyzing and resolving functional and technical problems in supported applications for the functional teams.
• Support integrations with other EBS modules, and with third-party or custom developed extensions.
• Work closely with Financial, IT, and consulting partner teams. Manage cross-functional project teams and ensure quality delivery. Provide cost and time estimations and plan and track project activities.
• Ability to use a cloud-based software solution to automate back-office processes and business activities to include financial management, supply chain management, project management, accounting, and procurement.
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging those systems and processes.
• Lead in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new applications, and enhancements to existing applications.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Should have demonstrated ability to setup and support Oracle EBS Financial modules, with experience handling Implementations, Upgrades, Roll outs and Systems Integration assignments for North American operations.
• Possess business acumen with an in depth understanding of Record to Report, Order to Cash, and Procure to Pay business process flows.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills. Must have ability to communicate with end users and senior management. Ability to articulate complex concepts in a way that is understandable to non-technical stakeholders
• Should be able to identify the gaps between business requirements and standard Oracle functionality and develop both long-term sustainable solutions and quick tactical solutions. Solutions should be simple and effective with minimal customizations.
• Ability to quickly understand complex requirements and their impact on existing solution and guide team members on potential solutions.
• Should be aware of how inbound and outbound interfaces are designed, developed, tested and deployed.
• Should have experience in preparing the key implementation documents viz, Setup Documents (BR100), Functional Test Scripts (TE40), Conversion Spec (CV40) and Functional Design (MD50) as per Oracle AIM standards.
• Ability to write queries for issue resolution is helpful.

Education And Experience

• University degree or college diploma, preferably in the fields of computer science, management information systems, or business administration.
• At least seven years’ experience with Oracle EBS plus years with at least one full life cycle implementation experience.
• Five years related work experience in an MRP/ERP relational database environment (Oracle experience advantageous but not essential).
• Proven experience developing, maintaining, and supporting complex software/database applications.
• Experience designing, manipulating, querying, importing, and exporting relational database tables and views.
• Extensive practical knowledge using spreadsheets for data analytics
• Experience documenting business and technical requirements and conducting business process modeling/mapping.
• Ability to create system and process documentation in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Experience implementing/mapping EDI transaction sets between trading partners.
• Experience with desktop software applications, including MS Office, MS Access, MS Project and MS Visio.
• Ability to understand an organization’s goals and objectives and provide solutions to support those objectives.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Logical and efficient, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and directed.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Physical Requirements

• Job takes place in normal office setting with no known hazardous environmental or physical working conditions.
• Job entails negligible requirements for lifting, bending, and standing.
• Normal office interactions require the incumbent to possess the mobility to meet with others in the office.
• Job is largely (75% plus) sedentary, requiring prolonged sitting, use of telephone, ability to communicate both verbally and in written format.
• Job requires ability to read technical material and develop analysis and recommendations.
• Requires normal dexterity, strength, coordination, vision (including the ability to read a computer screen) and hearing inherent in office work.