Oracle A2R (Account To Report) Functional Consultant

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Total Experience Expected: 10-15 years
Mode of work: Hybrid (3 days at office a week)
Work locations: Noida / Pune / Chennai / Bangalore

As an Oracle Cloud Financials Senior Functional Consultant, you will be in an entrusted lead-level role. Acting as a key team player, you will have the opportunity to lead key client initiatives related to the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of Oracle Cloud Financials (GL, Fusion Tax, AP, AR, CM, with good understanding of O2C and P2P Cycles) applications to drive Finance Transformation and Innovation.

This role focuses heavily on collaborating with the client Finance leadership and subject matter experts in initiating, planning, architecting, and implementation the best solutions using Oracle Cloud Financials for major Finance Transformations.

You will be the perfect fit for this role, if you aim to deliver modern Oracle Cloud Financials insights and solutions to some of the biggest names and leading companies in the world, designed specifically for helping them thrive and be at their level best in their industry through customers’ CORE services, solutions, and accelerators.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead assessment, design, implementation, and deployment of Oracle Cloud Financials.
• Partner with clients’ business stakeholders to execute all phases of the implementation lifecycle – requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment in accordance with the Oracle Unified Method (OUM).
• Architect solution options considering Oracle Cloud Financials capabilities to address business requirements and business pain points.
• Ensure high quality and value-added documentation of functional and technical solution design for review, update, and approval for implementation.
• Lead the hands-on configuration in Oracle Cloud Financials (GL, Fusion Tax, AP, AR, CM) and work with client stakeholders to ensure configurations are in alignment with business requirements.
• Lead the hands-on development of custom solutions across Reports, Integrations, Conversions and Extensions.
• Manage and drive continuous development of industry-specific accelerators (templates, best practices, automation tools) for faster delivery.
• Collaborate with the team, business development, and upskill them to becoming a leading Financial Transformation team.
• Expand and identify opportunities to expand into other area of technology expertise and ecosystems beyond Oracle. Review requirements and design documents to understand the current state of design.
• Proactively track, monitor, and resolve every identified functional and technical issues during an implementation.
• Own the Oracle Service Requests (SR's) responsibility, from initiation to resolution.
• You will drive solutions to complex business problems, advocate for scalable solutions.

Required Skills/Experience: 

• 7+ years prior experience with Oracle Cloud Financials, with 2-3 full-lifecycle implementations.
• 10+ years prior experience with Oracle ERP (Financials, which includes GL, Fusion Tax, AP, AR, CM).
• Strong background in A2R Accounting to Reporting workstream.
• Oracle Financials Cloud (General Ledger) Certified Professional (Preferred).
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to manage stakeholders and high-pressure situations.
• Experience with handling UAT cycles, user training and documentation.
• Experience to coordinate with different test team to execute test cycles.
• Provide training to end users and application support team manage the business post go live.
• Self-driven to achieve the highest standards of service, implementation excellence, and on-time delivery.
• Open to travel at client locations.
• Graduate degree or equivalent.

M.COM/MBA(Finance)/CA/ICWA/ACCA

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