Oracle PPM Cloud Functional Consultant

Oracle PPM Cloud Functional Consultant

Act as the onsite Oracle PPM Cloud functional consultant and primary coordinator between customer stakeholders and offshore delivery teams. Conduct customer requirement gathering sessions, business process walkthroughs, fit-gap discussions, and solution clarification workshops. Capture and document business requirements, process flows, functional specifications, assumptions, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items. Coordinate with offshore functional consultants, technical developers, integration teams, reporting teams, and testers to ensure requirements are understood and delivered as per project plan. Validate Oracle PPM Cloud configurations and solution design for Project Costing, Project Management, Project Contract Billing, and Project Resource Management. Facilitate regular customer meetings, offshore handoffs, status reviews, design walkthroughs, test readiness reviews, and defect triage sessions. Support CRP, SIT, UAT, regression testing, data validation, cutover mock runs, go-live readiness, and hypercare from the onsite location. Track open items, defects, dependencies, change requests, and escalations; follow up with responsible teams to drive timely closure. Provide clear communication to customer and project leadership on progress, risks, blockers, decisions required, and offshore delivery status. Ensure quality of deliverables by reviewing documents, test evidence, configuration updates, reporting outputs, and integration touchpoints before customer review.

Required Skills

Strong onsite customer-facing experience for Oracle PPM Cloud implementation projects. Hands-on experience in Oracle Project Costing, Project Management, Project Contract Billing, and Project Resource Management. Ability to lead customer requirement workshops, process walkthroughs, fit-gap discussions, and solution clarification meetings. Experience in documenting business requirements, functional specifications, configuration decisions, open items, risks, assumptions, and action items. Ability to coordinate with offshore functional, technical, integration, reporting, and testing teams for timely delivery. Experience in managing customer communications, meeting notes, status updates, issue follow-ups, and stakeholder alignment. Experience supporting CRP, SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and hypercare from onsite location. Good understanding of Oracle Integration Cloud, OTBI/BI Publisher reporting touchpoints, and cross-module dependencies with Finance, Procurement, and Projects.

Must Haves

Minimum 10+ years of Oracle PPM experience with strong Oracle Fusion PPM Cloud implementation exposure. Strong onsite customer-facing capability with experience in requirement gathering, workshop facilitation, business process discussions, and stakeholder communication. Hands-on functional knowledge of Oracle Project Costing, Project Management, Project Contract Billing, and Project Resource Management. Ability to bridge customer requirements with offshore delivery teams and ensure clear understanding of scope, design decisions, priorities, and timelines. Experience preparing BRDs, functional design documents, configuration documents, workshop notes, issue logs, action trackers, test scripts, and status reports. Experience coordinating CRP, SIT, UAT, data validation, cutover planning, go-live readiness, and hypercare support activities. Ability to manage customer expectations, track dependencies, escalate risks/issues, and drive closure with offshore and customer teams. Excellent communication, presentation, documentation, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

Good to have

Oracle Fusion PPM Cloud certification. Experience working in US onsite-offshore delivery model. Knowledge of Oracle Financials Cloud modules such as GL, AP, AR, FA, and SLA. Exposure to OIC integrations, OTBI/BI Publisher reporting, and data migration activities. Agile delivery experience and ability to collaborate with PMO, business process owners, testers, and technical teams.