Oracle Fusion Grants, Awards, Projects & PPM Functional Consultant - 26-13951

Job Description

Job Description

Oracle Fusion Grants, Awards, Projects & PPM Functional Consultant

Contract Duration: 8 Months ( NO BENEFITS ) 

Location: Arlington Heights, Illinois

Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week

Candidate Requirement: Must be local to Arlington Heights, IL, and able to commute onsite.

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Fusion Grants, Awards, Projects, and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Functional Consultant to support the implementation, configuration, enhancement, and ongoing operations of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong functional expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM, Grants Management, Awards, Project Costing, Project Billing, and Project Accounting. This role involves collaborating with Finance, Grants Administration, Procurement, Project Accounting, and technical integration teams to deliver scalable solutions and support end-to-end grant and project financial processes.

Key Responsibilities Oracle Fusion Grants Management & Awards

• Configure and support Oracle Fusion Grants Management functionality.

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of grants, sponsored projects, awards, and funding sources.

• Maintain award budgets, funding controls, award projects, organizations, and compliance requirements.

• Support award creation, amendments, funding changes, extensions, and closeout activities.

• Ensure expenditures comply with award funding requirements.

• Troubleshoot award associations, funding controls, costs, accounting, billing, and reporting issues.

Oracle Fusion PPM & Project Financial Management

• Configure and support Project Foundation, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Contracts, Project Control, Project Budgets and Forecasts, and Project Accounting.

• Manage project templates, organizations, classifications, project types, transaction controls, and project lifecycle activities.

• Configure expenditure types, expenditure categories, transaction sources, document entries, and burdening.

• Support project budgets, forecasts, funding, cost controls, and financial plans.

• Analyze project cost and revenue transactions and resolve processing exceptions.

Project Costing & Financial Reconciliation

• Support project cost collection from Oracle Fusion modules and external applications.

• Analyze transactions from Payables, Procurement, Purchasing, Receiving, General Ledger, and external interfaces.

• Troubleshoot cost imports, cost distributions, accounting entries, and posting issues.

• Support Subledger Accounting for project and grant transactions.

• Reconcile financial data across Projects, Grants, Payables, Receivables, Procurement, and General Ledger.

• Validate transaction data across application, integration, reporting, and accounting layers.

Project Billing & Revenue Management

• Configure and support project and award billing processes.

• Maintain contract lines, contract projects, billing plans, and revenue plans.

• Support invoice generation, revenue recognition, and billing exception resolution.

• Troubleshoot revenue generation and project billing issues.

• Support integrations between Project Billing, Receivables, and General Ledger.

• Assist Finance teams with billing and revenue reconciliation.

Configuration & Business Process Optimization

• Configure Business Units, Project Units, Project Organizations, Project Types, Project Templates, and Project Classifications.

• Maintain Project Accounting Rules, Burden Structures, Funding Controls, Billing Methods, Revenue Methods, and Financial Plan Types.

• Conduct business requirement workshops and fit-gap analysis sessions.

• Recommend solutions using standard Oracle Fusion functionality wherever possible.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and scalable configurations.

Integrations, Reporting & Technical Collaboration

• Partner with technical teams to support integrations across Oracle Fusion Financials, Procurement, Payables, Receivables, General Ledger, Payroll, banking, grants systems, and reporting platforms.

• Support integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST APIs, SOAP APIs, FBDI, ADFdi, and Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) processes.

• Develop functional requirements for reporting and analytics solutions.

• Support OTBI analyses, BI Publisher reports, project cost reports, billing reports, financial reconciliations, and award financial reporting.

Testing, Deployment & Production Support

• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and resolve transaction processing and interface issues.

• Support month-end, quarter-end, and fiscal year-end close activities.

• Support grant reporting cycles, award closeouts, and production deployments.

• Participate in system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), defect management, and data validation.

• Assist with cutover planning, hypercare, quarterly release testing, upgrades, and ongoing production support.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of Oracle ERP or Oracle Cloud functional experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud PPM and Project Financial Management.

• Experience with Oracle Fusion Grants Management and Awards.

• Strong understanding of project accounting and financial management concepts.

• Experience with Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Contracts, Project Control, and Project Accounting.

• Knowledge of integrations between Oracle Fusion PPM and Oracle Financials.

• Experience with Oracle Fusion configuration, implementation, testing, upgrades, quarterly releases, and production support.

• Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into Oracle Fusion solutions.

• Experience supporting end-to-end project and grant transaction lifecycles.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and workshop facilitation skills.

• Ability to independently manage complex implementation and production support activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle Fusion Grants Management and Awards administration.

• Sponsored project accounting and grant-funded financial operations.

• Oracle Fusion Project Financial Management and Project Costing.

• Project Billing, Project Contracts, and Project Control.

• Oracle Fusion Financials, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Procurement.

• Subledger Accounting.

• Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).

• OTBI and BI Publisher reporting.

• REST and SOAP integrations.

• SQL knowledge.

• Oracle quarterly release testing and upgrade support.

• Experience in higher education, research institutions, healthcare, government, or other grant-funded environments.