Interim Oracle ERP Finance Consultant

Milton Keynes/Remote/Occasional Office Visits as required.

Key Accountabilities:

• To support the development of the ERP Financial features in an Oracle cloud ERP development
• Working within the respective functional consultants within the workstream, the functional consultant will be a PPM specialist with core key skills in Billing and Costing they must able to consider the requirements for both public sector and corporation ensuring these are correctly implemented in the configuration.
• To have a background in Oracle financials, particularly in the development and implementation of Billing and Costing to support a solution which spans both this organisation and its supporting commercial operations
• To undertake an analytical review of the existing backlog, business processes and both as-is and to-be models to determine the functional requirements
• To convert that requirement to a design and subsequently configuration
• To support the business to drive out a full business process for solutions that have already been tested through SIT
• To provide the knowledge to link standard Oracle cloud processes into a full end to end process solution to include off system processes
• The Functional consultant defines the requirement, converts it to a compliant design and then configures it working within a small team of Oracle fusion experts. Once developed and accepted the consultant will then support ERP through the latter stages of testing. This to include setting up of scenario’s, debugging and proving the configuration against complex business scenarios.

Key Requirements:

• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to drive to conclusion key decisions with senior leaders and key business stakeholders.
• Broad knowledge of PPM Billing and Costing solutions in the Oracle Fusion product set
• Strong bias for action and a “solution orientated” attitude
• Able to work closely across a diverse multi-workstream programme team to expeditiously deliver results
• Ability to convey ideas and recommendations in a clear, compelling and succinct way in written and verbal communications
• Good attention to detail and an ability to analyses and use data in decision making
• Experience identifying, diagnosing and resolving issues independently; taking initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances
• Experience of business analysis and functional requirements gathering
• Broad knowledge of Oracle/ERP modules and functionality
• Stakeholder management and good people skills to gather requirements and agree specifications
• Experience of working with configurable package solutions or large IT projects
• Security Clearance required - Sole British Nationality

Desirable Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of Oracle Cloud solutions within a multi-supplier, multi-tenancy, multi-release, central government context.
• Knowledge and experience of other Oracle Cloud Finance Modules
• Experience of Oracle consulting development methodology
• The ability to work effectively and collaboratively across interdisciplinary teams and cultures
• Experienced in working remotely in a requirements, design and configuration role.