Role: Oracle Cloud Financial Lead
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid - Weekly twice)
Job Description:
- Client has recently consolidated our financial systems to the Oracle Cloud ERP, Procurement and Subscription Management suite of applications. We are in the process of scaling our finance applications further and rolling out ERP globally to support client s growth.
- As the Lead Finance Applications Engineer you will be responsible for working jointly with the Business Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Applications, Program Management, client Product, Data and Integration teams to provide technology solutions to scale the Projects, Fixed Assets, Record to Report and other finance processes and related systems.
- This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr. Director of Enterprise Applications - Finance Systems.
Job Responsibilities:
- Function as a Lead Finance Applications Engineer and partner with cross-functional teams to model and design business and technology solutions that improve client Record to Report, Fixed Assets, and Projects processes and systems.
- Conduct a thorough analysis of business problems, cross-functional project requirements, or new capabilities needed to support the business processes.
- Analyze existing business processes, application architecture and integration to design, develop and implement appropriate technical solutions to address the business problem.
- Prepare the business and system flows, solution design, functional design and technical design, perform module configurations and documentation, conduct product demos, develop BIP reports, and assist with any data mapping, integration design, error handling, and defining test scenarios.
- Analyze issues, perform root cause, develop permanent code-fixes, configurations and tuning.
- Design and develop custom extensions as needed to meet the product gaps.
- Prototype technical solutions to assess feasibility and to determine the most viable product.
- Design and explore industry best practices to inform solution development.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends to drive solution design.
- Lead the Applications team during Month, Quarter and Year End to ensure all defects are resolved on a timely basis, and to enable the financial close in an accurate, compliant and timely manner.
- Collaborate with internal, external and compliance and audit teams to ensure all proper controls are in place for the financial systems.
- Be proactive in identifying recurring issues or value-add areas and propose process, data, and/or systematic solutions.
- Negotiate IT commitments, business benefits, technology options, cost and constraints, and propose alternative solutions to the business.
- Define and track key product metrics and use data to make informed product decisions.
- Build and maintain product roadmaps and maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and emerging technologies in the finance applications space.
Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation.
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or related field
- 12+ years of progressive industry experience in business analysis, solution design, configurations and end to end implementation of Tier 1 ERP solutions
- Experience on Oracle ERP Cloud specifically in one or more of the following Oracle modules: Projects Costing and Billing, Fixed Assets, Cash Management and General Ledger
- Experience with Record to Report, Project Costing, and Fixed Assets processes
- Experience with Oracle cloud APIs and developing prototypes using postman or similar tools
- Experience with SLA, Workflow, Groovy scripting, BI Publisher, OTBI, FBDI, and other related finance module functionality
- Experience with Jira, Confluence and Project Management tools
- Experience working in an agile environment and using data to drive product decisions