Oracle Fusion Functional Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Position Description:

This role will be part of the IT team responsible for maintaining and supporting the Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.

This role would be primarily responsible to act as strategic liaison between Business users, the implementation vendor, Oracle and the technical folks.

This includes tasks such as configuring, designing solutions, and providing support to ensure streamlined use of the Oracle Fusion application suite.

Duties will also include evaluating the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP (Finance) quarterly releases, determining impact and coordinating the necessary testing and validation with business teams.

We are looking for a candidate with an in-depth understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud Finance (ERP) application, experienced in ERP implementations and long-term maintenance of these, and a team player who is reliable, enthusiastic, committed, creative, and customer focused.

This role also requires strong collaboration & leadership skills to manage the technical and operational work, and proactively engaging with the business teams in a continuously evolving environment.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

7+ years of overall ERP implementation/ administration experience.

3+ years of experience as Finance Functional lead for Oracle Fusion Cloud.

Well-versed with configurations, custom fields and fast formulas used in Oracle Fusion Cloud, with a strong understanding of integration with other Fusion applications and third-party systems.

Experience in leading full projects involving Requirements, Design, Testing and Roll-out.

Comfortable with Oracle Fusion data dictionary and the relationship between various objects, to quickly understand requirements and design solutions.

Excellent collaborative and verbal/written communication skills.

Desire to teach and mentor other engineers with varying domains of expertise.

Preferred Experience:
Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and configurations.

Expertise with the security roles and workflow setup in Oracle Fusion applications.

Combines strong business acumen/experience in the Finance/ HR/ Payroll areas and deep IT knowledge

Hands-on experience with other Oracle Fusion applications such as ERP & EPM.

Demonstrated initiative to stay current on technology advancements.

Strong interpersonal and leadership skills

Responsibilities:

• In-depth understanding of the Oracle Finance application configured in order to be able to partner with the Business SMEs to proactively establish the best use of the Oracle application suite.
• Responsible for the configurations, fast formulas, custom fields, and streamlined performance of the Oracle Fusion cloud applications.
• Review the impacts of the Oracle Fusion quarterly releases and other patch deployments and coordinate the needed testing with the business teams.
• Lead the end-to-end testing of fixes/enhancements, including the creation of test plans and test scripts.
• Design & create custom security roles to ensure they don't grant too many privileges. Conduct regular security audits to identify and fix vulnerabilities.
• Proactively Monitor Oracle Fusion Cloud applications performance and architecture to ensure the system reliability, integrity and recoverability.
• Work with internal IT staff, third-party vendors and Oracle to update and communicate environment maintenance schedules, refresh schedules, and outages.
• Design and implement best practices to administer and improve the functionality, reliability and security of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.
• Troubleshoot issues related to Oracle Fusion Cloud applications. Partner with internal IT teams such as Security, Network and Service Desk teams, and external vendor teams to proactively monitor, identify issues and drive them to resolution.
• Write functional/ technical specifications needed for new integrations and custom peripheral applications that closely integrate with Oracle Fusion applications.
• Document system requirements, process flows, policies and procedures.
• Mentor and train the team members in managing Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.

Other responsibilities of an Oracle Fusion Functional Lead may include understanding and managing the technical configurations, in-depth understanding of the interfaces and reporting needs, and other duties as assign