Principal IT Business Systems Analyst (Oracle Financials-AP)

About the role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Oracle Payables Specialist to join our Accounts Payables Finance IT team. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Oracle Fusion Financials and e-Invoicing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Partners with team members and vendors to gather requirements
• Respected by business for deep, cross functional business process expertise and innovative solutioning across platforms and systems/architectures
• Able to distill executive level requirements into appropriate discovery work plans and guide team members on good requirements gathering
• Partners with team members and vendors to model business processes
• Respected by business for driving innovative process improvements
• Able to communicate process improvements at implementation and executive level
• Supports senior stakeholders and management team in identifying, communicating to senior stakeholders
• Recognized by senior managers as a skilled communicator, trusted to recognize and proactively manage key impacts and drive issue resolution
• Demonstrates value from realized projects
• Solution Design
• Responsible to design strategic cross-functional and global solutions that align with long-term organizational goals and roadmaps
• Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, to ensure that good design practices are followed
• Recognized as expert within the industry
• Establishes standards
• Documentation
• Supports senior management by creating architecture, project management and roadmap documentation
• Functional Design
• Develops functional design standards and methodologies to deliver robust, agile functional designs that may span multiple functional areas and applications
• Recognized for innovative, deep and long-term designs
• Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities
• Develops functional designs in line with an Enterprise Architecture and the long-term business roadmap
• Collaborates with cross functional business and IT teams to ensure business needs are addressed in the functional designs
• Manages delivery scope and risks, and sets right expectations with stakeholders
• Mentors junior BSAs to produce functional designs
• Application/integration architecture; constructs solutions across multiple functional areas and applications
• Testing & Test Design
• Develops test strategy and execution to cover testing in an optimal amount of time
• Ensures cross functional testing coverage
• Organizes test labs for repetitive testing
• Drives methodology and best practices for defect resolution and triaging
• Ability to manage multiple cross functional projects running in parallel
• Optimizes release management to strike good balance between business goals and delivery capacity
• Identifies and manages risks in release delivery
• System Configurations
• Designs configurations methodology to drive consistency, robustness, speed and good governance
• Day to Day Support (Production Support)
• Maintains and manages support metrics and trends for functional areas
• Drives team towards root cause identification and resolution
• Training and change management
• Drives appropriate practices through collaboration with business
• Analyzes adoption rates and issues and assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve
• Vendor Management
• Manages/leads individual consultants or consulting teams as assigned
• Participates in vendor advisory boards and user groups
• Is accountable for creating and negotiating vendor contracts, MSA/SOW, License Agreements, and driving through internal reviews with GTS leadership and Legal teams
• Vendor & Application Technology Evaluation
• Executes and guides large-scale vendor evaluations by BSA staff, vets recommendation and negotiation communications for executive review
• Responsible for executive communications and cross functional stakeholder buy-in
• Brings thought leadership to influence technology roadmap and decisions
• Electronic Invoicing Lead and manage end-to-end e-invoicing processes within Oracle Fusion Payables, including invoice receipt, validation, approvals, exception handling, and payments
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve invoicing discrepancies and ensure timely, accurate payments
• Ensure compliance with global and country-specific e-invoicing and tax regulations, supporting both domestic and cross-border transactions
• Design, maintain, and support e-invoicing integrations and interfaces between Oracle Fusion, third-party vendors, and government platforms
• Translate complex global e-invoicing mandates into actionable business and system solutions
• Define e-invoicing architecture, data flows, error handling, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure reliability and compliance
• Support compliant invoice formats, including digital signatures, QR codes, and regulatory-specific data requirements
• Perform transaction audits and controls to ensure accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency
• Contribute to the implementation of new Oracle Payables features and enhancements, while staying current with industry trends and regulatory changes

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Over 15 years of experience implementing and supporting enterprise applications, with a strong focus on financial and procurement systems
  • Expert-level knowledge of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes, including end-to-end business workflows and system integrations
  • Deep expertise in Oracle Fusion Accounts Payables, including configuration, customization, and production support
  • Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud iExpense, including policy enforcement and integration with P2P processes
  • Proven expertise in bank integrations, including experience with multiple payment formats, electronic payments, and check printing solutions
  • Experience implementing and supporting country-specific localizations within Oracle Cloud
  • Demonstrated experience supporting Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) initiatives, including boundary system integrations and data migrations
  • Strong understanding of Direct and Indirect Tax requirements within the Procure-to-Pay lifecycle
  • Experience integrating and working with third-party applications such as SAP Fieldglass, Vertex, Coupa, and Concur
  • Experience working with Oracle AI Agents, including leveraging AI-driven capabilities to enhance business process automation, insights, and decision-making