Oracle Fusion Finance Consultant

Role Overview

Oracle Fusion Finance Consultant at Emarat (Emirates General Petroleum). The position is responsible for effective implementation of Oracle Fusion Financials that support Emarat's business objectives.

Role Purpose

Serve as the interface between stakeholder groups and lead the efficient, cost-effective implementation of Oracle Fusion Financials solutions in accordance with Emarat's policies, processes and standard operating procedures. Provide techno-functional support during implementation, ensure optimized project results, and transfer product knowledge to colleagues for ongoing solution support.

Key Responsibilities

Implementation & Configuration

• Provide expertise in Oracle Cloud SaaS and PaaS for Finance workstream, including Financials, Assets, Projects, GRC and EPM modules.
• Assist Business Users in mapping, 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, including Requirements Gathering & Analysis, System Design, Configuration, Testing and Deployment.
• Conduct Functional and Technical Design Workshops with business users.
• Identify business requirements and map them to Oracle Financials Cloud functionality.
• Perform Design, Development, Integration, Testing and Deployment of custom extensions.
• Support solution preparation with data migration.
• Prepare validation scripts, testing scenarios and test scripts for Financials workstream configurations and validate configurations.

Project Management & Quality Assurance

• Confirm to project quality and performance standards.
• Assess and manage risk relating to Financials workstream and report to Project Manager.
• Take responsibility for schedule and milestones relating to Financials workstream.
• Manage changes process.
• Oversee interdependency and integration needs with other modules and systems/business processes.

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer

• Create process and procedure documents.
• Ensure all documentation related to the operations of the unit are created and maintained comprehensively.
• Prepare reports specification development and deployment.
• Share and transfer product knowledge and skills with colleagues to facilitate ongoing support of the implemented solution.
• Provide training to users through classroom sessions.

User Support & Adoption

• Provide user handholding to ensure adoption of implementation solutions.
• Leverage functionalities and features available in the solution and achieve standardization and simplification to reduce future implementation timelines and costs.

Post-Implementation Operations

• 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 satisfactory resolution of defects.

Vendor & Partner Management

• Review and recommend vendors, consultants and other suppliers and monitor contract compliance.
• Manage third-party partner and/or vendor relationships as necessary.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 4 years experience working in a lead functional consultant role in Oracle Fusion Financials, Assets, Projects, GRC and EPM modules.
• 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.
• Previous strong hands-on implementation experience of Oracle ERP Financials Fusion Applications, with at least 3 full cycles of successful implementations in Senior Functional Lead role.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent executive communication skills, verbal and written, including preparation and delivery.
• Familiar with MS Office tools, including MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and 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.
• Proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilizing them in a productive manner.
• High level of commitment and positive attitude on achieving both departmental and business objectives.
• Ability to work under minimum supervision.

Additional Information

• Direct reporting relation to the Business Systems Senior Manager.
• Adheres to standards and procedures for the design, development and deployment of solutions.
• Works according to established policies, procedures and specialized professional standards.