Oracle Fusion Finance Consultant

The incumbent is responsible for effective implementation of Oracle Fusion Financials that support Emarat’s Business objectives. The position occupant is the interface between different stakeholder groups and is comprehensively responsible for efficient and cost effective implementation of the solution in accordance with EMARAT’s policies, processes and standard operating procedures.

Incumbent will provide techno functional support during the implementation project and ensure optimized project results. In addition, the job scope includes the sharing/transfer of product knowledge/skills with colleagues in order to facilitate the on going support of the implemented solution.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide expertise in the areas of Oracle Cloud Saas & PaaS for Finance workstream, including Financials, Assets, Projects, GRC and EPM modules

• Assist Business Users in mapping and streamlining and reengineering business practices to implement various Oracle Fusion cloud modules, using standardized implementation methodology

• Facilitate and actively participate in all phases of the Implementation cycle, to include Requirements Gathering & Analysis, System Design, Configuration, testing and deployment

• Confirms to project quality and performance standards. Assesses and manages risk relating to Financials workstream and reports to Project Manager

• Responsible for schedule and milestones relating to Financials workstream

• Oversee interdependency and integration needs with other modules and systems/business processes

• Prepare reports specification development and deployment

• User handholding to ensure adoption of implementation solutions

• Create process and procedure documents

• Ensure all documentation related to the operations of the unit are created and maintained as elaborately as possible

• Conduct Functional and Technical Design Workshops with business users

• Identify business requirements and map them to the Oracle Financials Cloud functionality

• Leverage functionalities and features available in the solution and achieve standardization and simplification to reduce future implementation timelines and costs

• Prepare validation scripts, testing scenarios and test scripts for Financials workstream configurations and validate configurations

• Support solution preparation with data migration

• Perform Design, development, integration, testing and deployment of custom extensions

• Provides training to users through class room sessions

• Manage changes process

Independence of Operation:

• The incumbent is a specialist and has a direct reporting relation to the Business Systems Snr Manager.

• Reports work progress to the Project Manager who reviews completed assignments.

• Adherence to the standards and procedures for the design, development and deployment of solutions

• Ensure continuous availability of deployed services with minimum disruption

• Provide seamless support on deployed applications

• Conduct fault investigation and either fix or escalate to Oracle and implementation partner to ensure the satisfactory resolutions of defects

• Work according to established policies, procedures and specialized professional standards.

Communications and Working Relationships/Work Contacts

The incumbent will report directly to the Business Systems Snr Manager and work closely with other team members within the implementation project:

• Review and/or recommend vendors, consultants and other suppliers and monitor contract compliance

• Manages third-party partner and/or vendor relationships, as necessary.

Knowledge

• Minimum 4 years experience working in lead functional consultant in Oracle Fusion Financials, Assets, Projects, GRC and EPM modules

Education

• B.Sc. Engineering in Information Technology(or equivalent) with minimum of 10 years experience

• Oracle Certification on Oracle Cloud Financials, Assets, Projects, GRC and EPM modules

Experience

• Previous strong hands on implementation experience of Oracle ERP Financials Fusion Applications, at least 3 full cycles of successful implementations in Senior Functional Lead role.

Competencies

• Excellent executive communication skills (verbal/written) including preparation and delivery

• Familiar with MS Office tools, including MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio

• Knowledge of business processes specific to Emarat operations and Strong Business Process understanding for the concepts under control.

• Strong communication, collaboration and team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilise the same in a productive manner

• High level of commitment and positive attitude on achieving both departmental and business objectives . Expected to work under minimum supervision