Oracle ERP Financial Specialist
Responsibilities
The Oracle ERP Financial Specialist will be responsible for managing and optimizing financial processes using Oracle’s ERP applications, including requirements gathering, system configuration, testing, and support, ensuring compliance and driving process improvements.
- Align existing business processes and procedures with validated ERP Cloud methods to solve client needs.
- Provide techno-functional support on projects and initiatives involving Oracle Cloud ERP Financial modules, such as GL, AP, AR, Expenses, CM, and FA.
- Work with Finance and Accounting to formulate functional business requirements and align them to Oracle Cloud functionality and overall solution delivery.
- Identify requirements and design gaps and develop solutions to align with overall solution delivery.
- Configure the Oracle Cloud environment to meet requirements and document application configuration.
- Develop use and test cases to test the implementation of Oracle Cloud ERP and participate in the execution of such test cases.
- Provide support to the testing team and end users during the various test cycles; remediate and/or dispose of test case failures or anomalies.
- Support the project execution methodology, report on project progress, and aggressively identify and manage issues to closure.
- Participate in Cloud upgrade releases and new projects involving strategy, implementation, and support.
- Provide assistance in key system processes (i.e. process of month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes) as needed
- Assist with functional testing of monthly, quarterly, and emergency patches.
- Coordinating with the groups of business users who test, validate, and evaluate new applications and functions to determine issues in services and software.
- Excellent Analytical Skills with a proven approach to troubleshooting and problem-solving techniques.
- Be familiar with the agile methodology and participate in agile sessions as needed.
- Demonstrate the ability to adapt and work with team members of various experience levels.
- Be comfortable working in an atmosphere of continual learning and process improvement.
- Build, leverage, and maintain effective relationships across the technical and business communities.
Qualifications
- 2 to 5 years of experience in Oracle ERP Financials
- At least 3 years of experience in implementing or supporting Oracle ERP Cloud (Fusion Financials).
- Experience and the completion of 1 full life-cycle implementation with Oracle ERP Financial Cloud.
- Knowledge of technologies, languages, and architectures like Functional Setup Manager (FSM), Application Development Framework Data Integration (ADFDI), File Based Data Import (FBDI), Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) Report development, Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI), Software as a Service / Platform as a Service (SaaS and PaaS), Smart View / and Fusion Reporting Studio (FRS).
- Excellent verbal, written, and relationship skills used to interact with a global group of technical and non-technical people.
- Work closely with other IT teams, including Information Security, Application Development, IT Support, and 3rd party vendors to plan, deploy, and maintain a highly performant environment.
- Logical thought process when architecting technical solutions for customers.
- Ability to work independently with minimal oversight and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
- Ability to organize and prioritize tasks and work under a small or large team spanning across multiple business units/practice areas.