Oracle Fusion Functional Lead

About the role

This role will be part of the IT team responsible for maintaining and supporting the Oracle Fusion Cloud applications. The primary responsibility is to act as a strategic liaison between Business users, the implementation vendor, Oracle, and the technical team. Tasks include configuring, designing solutions, and providing support to ensure the efficient use of the Oracle Fusion application suite.

Responsibilities

• In-depth understanding of the Oracle Finance application configured to partner with Business SMEs for optimal use of the Oracle application suite.
• Responsible for configurations, fast formulas, custom fields, and streamlined performance of Oracle Fusion cloud applications.
• Review the impacts of Oracle Fusion quarterly releases and other patch deployments, coordinating the necessary testing with the business teams.
• Lead the end-to-end testing of fixes/enhancements, including the creation of test plans and test scripts.
• Design and create custom security roles to ensure they don't grant excessive privileges.
• Conduct regular security audits to identify and fix vulnerabilities.
• Proactively monitor Oracle Fusion Cloud applications performance and architecture to ensure system reliability, integrity, and recoverability.
• Work with internal IT staff, third-party vendors, and Oracle to update and communicate environment maintenance schedules, refresh schedules, and outages.
• Design and implement best practices to administer and improve the functionality, reliability, and security of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.
• Troubleshoot issues related to Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.
• Partner with internal IT teams such as Security, Network, and Service Desk teams, and external vendor teams to proactively monitor, identify issues, and drive them to resolution.
• Write functional/technical specifications needed for new integrations and custom peripheral applications that closely integrate with Oracle Fusion applications.
• Document system requirements, process flows, policies, and procedures.
• Mentor and train team members in managing Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.

Requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 7+ years of overall ERP implementation/administration experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a Finance Functional Lead for Oracle Fusion Cloud.
• Well-versed with configurations, custom fields, and fast formulas used in Oracle Fusion Cloud, with a strong understanding of integration with other Fusion applications and third-party systems.
• Experience in leading full projects involving Requirements, Design, Testing, and Roll-out.
• Comfortable with Oracle Fusion data dictionary and the relationship between various objects, to quickly understand requirements and design solutions.
• Excellent collaborative and verbal/written communication skills.
• Desire to teach and mentor other engineers with varying domains of expertise.

Preferred Experience

• Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and configurations.
• Expertise with the security roles and workflow setup in Oracle Fusion applications.
• Combines strong business acumen/experience in Finance/HR/Payroll areas and deep IT knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with other Oracle Fusion applications such as ERP & EPM.
• Demonstrated initiative to stay current on technology advancements.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.