Lead Engineer Oracle Fusion (Financials)

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the functional owner for Oracle Fusion Financials, including: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Subledger Accounting (SLA).
• Own end-to-end financial process design, configuration standards, and support strategy.
• Serve as the highest escalation point for complex or high impact financial system issues.
• Define, document, and enforce functional standards, best practices, and guardrails aligned with Oracle out of the box capabilities.
• Enable financial operations, controls, and close by leading system readiness and operational support for month end, quarter end, and yearend close.
• Partner With Finance And Accounting Leadership To Ensure Accurate, timely, and complete financial processing, strong internal controls and audit readiness (SOX, compliance).
• Proactively identify financial system risks, control gaps, and operational inefficiencies, and drive mitigation plans.
• Lead functional design and impact assessment for integrations involving Oracle Fusion Financials, including upstream and downstream systems.
• Partner with Solution Architects, Integration Engineers, and Data teams to define financial data flows and reconciliation strategies, ensure data accuracy across ERP, integrations, and analytics platforms.
• Review and approve functional designs for enhancements, extensions, and configuration changes.
• Guide regression testing, release readiness, and remediation activities for Oracle quarterly updates.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across financial processes, system usage, and user experience.
• Lead root cause analysis for recurring or systemic issues and ensure permanent resolution, not workarounds.
• Define, maintain, and mature runbooks, SOPs, support and escalation models.
• Improve support efficiency, system reliability, and overall platform maturity.
• Provide functional leadership and mentorship to Senior and Junior Engineers supporting Oracle Fusion Financials.
• Review solution designs, configurations, and deliverables to ensure quality and alignment with standards.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Finance, Accounting, and IT leadership.
• Cook up with vendors and implementation partners on enhancements, remediation efforts, and strategic initiatives.

Skills & Capabilities

• Deep expertise in enterprise financial processes and accounting principles.
• Strong handson experience configuring and supporting Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials.
• Proven ability to lead complex problem resolution and make sound functional decisions.
• Ability to balance hands on execution with strategic ownership and leadership.
• Strong communication skills across executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fastgrowing enterprise environments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, MIS, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience supporting Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials or comparable enterprise ERP financial platforms.
• Experience leading Oracle Fusion Financials reimplementations, upgrades, or major enhancements.
• Demonstrated ownership of financial system domains in production environments.
• Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials certification(s) preferred.
• Strong Experience With Incident, problem, and change management.
• Financial close processes Audit and compliance requirements.
• Integration design and operational support.
• ITIL based service management.