Oracle Cloud Application Lead - Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact. The Oracle Cloud Application Lead – Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is responsible for the functional ownership, configuration, governance, optimization, and production support of Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management applications. This role serves as the primary functional authority for the PPM product area and partners with Project Operations, Project Controls, Finance, Procurement, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Enterprise Performance Management, Information Technology, and external service providers to deliver scalable solutions that support the complete project lifecycle. The Application Lead provides hands‑on leadership across Project Foundation, Project Control, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Contracts, Project Performance Reporting, Project Management, and Project Resource Management. The role ensures that project structures, budgets, forecasts, commitments, costs, revenue, billing, accounting, resource assignments, and performance reporting are accurate, controlled, and aligned with business requirements, audit standards, and Oracle Cloud best practices. A successful candidate will have a strong understanding of project‑driven business processes and the integration of PPM with Oracle Financials, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management, and Enterprise Performance Management. Experience supporting Architecture, Engineering, and Construction or Engineering, Procurement, and Construction environments is highly desirable. This is a hybrid position that will require a combination of on‑site work in our Jacksonville, FL headquarters and remote work from home. Key Responsibilities Serve as the functional lead and subject‑matter expert for Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM, maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the configured solution, business rules, dependencies, and end‑to‑end process flows. Lead the configuration, support, and continuous improvement of Project Foundation, Project Control, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Contracts, Project Performance Reporting, Project Management, and Project Resource Management capabilities used by the organization. Partner with business stakeholders to define and maintain project organizations, project types, project templates, task structures, project classifications, transaction controls, expenditure types, burden schedules, rate schedules, cross‑charge rules, and project lifecycle statuses. Support project planning and control processes, including budgets, forecasts, baseline management, progress collection, commitments, cost control, change management, and project performance measurement. Provide functional leadership for project cost collection and accounting from labor, time and labor, expenses, procurement, payables, inventory, supply chain, and external source systems. Support project contracts, funding, billing, revenue recognition, invoice generation, contract limits, billing controls, and integration with Oracle Receivables, General Ledger, and Subledger Accounting. Partner with Finance and Project Controls to ensure that project costing, capitalization, burdening, allocations, accounting, reconciliation, period close, and financial reporting processes operate accurately and efficiently. Lead break‑fix and enhancement delivery by eliciting and documenting requirements, performing fit‑gap analysis, evaluating configuration options, preparing functional designs, and recommending scalable solutions that follow Oracle Cloud best practices. Assess upstream and downstream impacts across PPM, Financials, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Performance Management, reporting, security, and integration platforms before approving solution changes. Lead functional testing for system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, quarterly updates, enhancements, and production fixes; define test scenarios, validate expected results, manage defects, and support business sign‑off. Lead the functional readiness process for Oracle Cloud quarterly updates, including feature review, impact assessment, opt‑in recommendations, testing coordination, stakeholder communication, training needs, and release validation. Lead resolution of high‑priority PPM incidents by coordinating triage, reproducing issues, identifying root causes, recommending corrective actions, and working with Oracle Support, Application Managed Services partners, integration teams, reporting teams, and business stakeholders. Define and support PPM reporting and analytics requirements using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence, BI Publisher, dashboards, inquiries, and reconciliations to provide visibility into project cost, commitments, budgets, forecasts, revenue, billing, margin, utilization, and performance. Partner with technical teams on integrations and data conversion processes involving Oracle Integration Cloud, REST or SOAP services, file‑based data imports, spreadsheets, middleware, and third‑party project systems. Maintain functional design documents, configuration workbooks, process flows, testing evidence, support procedures, release documentation, and knowledge articles. Advise business leaders, project managers, project accountants, project controls professionals, and delivery teams on Oracle Cloud capabilities, process improvements, automation opportunities, and adoption of new functionality. Coordinate cross‑functional decisions, manage competing priorities, communicate risks and dependencies, and guide stakeholders through process and system changes. Qualifications The Oracle Cloud Application Lead – PPM must have hands‑on functional expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management and demonstrated experience leading requirements, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and production support in an enterprise software‑as‑a‑service environment. Five or more years of progressive experience supporting, configuring, implementing, or enhancing Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM, with responsibility for functional ownership or workstream leadership. Deep functional knowledge of Project Foundation, Project Control, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Contracts, Project Performance Reporting, Project Management, or Project Resource Management; broad knowledge across the PPM suite is strongly preferred. Demonstrated ability to configure project organizations, business units, project types, templates, work breakdown structures, transaction controls, expenditure types and categories, burdening, rate schedules, cross‑charge processing, budgets, forecasts, project statuses, and approval workflows. Strong understanding of project financial management, including cost collection, costing, accounting, capitalization, commitments, budgetary controls, contract funding, revenue recognition, customer billing, invoice processing, and reconciliation. Experience supporting project‑driven business processes in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction, design‑build, professional services, capital projects, or a comparable environment. Strong understanding of integrations between PPM and General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Time and Labor, Expenses, Human Capital Management, and Enterprise Performance Management. Knowledge of project accounting, Subledger Accounting, financial close, reconciliations, audit requirements, internal controls, and segregation of duties. Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable Oracle Cloud configurations, functional specifications, process designs, reporting requirements, and testing scenarios. Experience leading system integration testing and user acceptance testing, including test planning, test script development, test data preparation, defect management, regression validation, and business sign‑off. Proven experience leading Oracle Cloud quarterly update readiness, including feature analysis, impact assessment, opt‑in governance, regression testing, stakeholder communications, and production validation. Strong incident and problem management skills for Level 2 and Level 3 support, including root‑cause analysis and coordination with Oracle Support, My Oracle Support service requests, Application Managed Services partners, and technical teams. Experience working within an Application Managed Services delivery model, including intake, prioritization, service‑level management, backlog management, vendor coordination, and continuous improvement. Working knowledge of Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence and BI Publisher, including the ability to define and troubleshoot functional reporting requirements. Understanding of Oracle Integration Cloud, REST and SOAP services, file‑based data import, spreadsheet loaders, middleware, scheduled processes, and cross‑application data flows. Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud application security, project roles, data access, configuration controls, segregation of duties, and audit compliance. Excellent analytical, documentation, facilitation, communication, and cross‑functional leadership skills. Ability to build consensus, guide design decisions, manage competing priorities, communicate risks clearly, and lead stakeholders through operational and system change. Education & Experience Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field. Five or more years of progressive experience implementing, supporting, configuring, or enhancing Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM in a functional lead, senior functional analyst, or comparable capacity. Experience leading requirements gathering, fit‑gap analysis, configuration, functional design, data validation, testing, deployment, production support, and quarterly update readiness. Experience with project accounting, project controls, project billing, project contracts, or project financial management processes. Experience in an Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction, design‑build, professional services, or other project‑centric organization is preferred. An equivalent combination of education and directly relevant Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM experience may substitute for the stated degree requirement. Certifications Having the following certification is preferred: Current Oracle Project Management Cloud Implementation Professional certification or the applicable current Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM certification. The following certifications are also valued: Oracle Financials Cloud certification. Oracle Procurement Cloud certification. Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud certification. Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud or Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Foundations certification. Project Management Professional, Certified Cost Professional, or comparable project controls certification. Equivalent recent hands‑on Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM implementation and production support experience may substitute for certification. At Haskell, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, professional development opportunities, and more. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions make a difference. Environmental Factors and/or Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, this position is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, and arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The associate frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, or protected veteran status.Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessities.Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification. Haskell is a Drug‑Free Workplace. #J-18808-Ljbffr Haskell