Oracle P2P (Procure To Pay) Functional Consultant

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Client is looking for a Senior Functional Consultant (Oracle SaaS (Fusion)) with expertise in Oracle Procurement Cloud, Oracle Accounts Payables Cloud and Oracle Contract Management Cloud to play a key role in the design of solutions in the Procure to Pay processes. In this role, you'll be a critical member of a growing team working with the business teams and the Technology Teams chartered with designing and improving the solution for our ever-growing business needs. As an Oracle Functional Consultant (Procure to Pay), you'll understand the current business processes and use your ability and expertise to recommend well-reasoned ways of enhancing, re-architecting, and improving technical solutions to support business requirements. As our platform is extended, your work will be instrumental in ensuring all solutions complement one another and function seamlessly.

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

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• You'll liaise with internal and external teams (e.g. Developers, Project/Program Managers, QA Engineers, Customers) to understand the client's business requirements and designed solutions.
• You will assess short-term and long-term trade-offs and make recommendations to the business and technology teams.
• Take charge and lead the entire Procure to Pay implementation while meeting the project's scope and deliverables.
• 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.
• Actively participate, consult, and effect process changes in client's Master Data Management process definition and implementation (Customer, Product, Supplier)
• You will work with geographically diverse locations in providing solutions that work across borders.
• You will identify and advocate opportunities to improve current procedures, processes, and systems.
• You will work closely with the Solution Architect in designing, testing, and writing the project's solution design and process workflows for the Procure to Pay track.
• Support development and execution of roll out strategies, cut over/transition plans, end-user training and documentation.
• You will provide support to our Oracle ERP user community by addressing system function anomalies, and end-user questions/issues.
• Empower end-users through instruction and functional knowledge transfer.

You will partner with onsite / offshore development and QA team members in all phases of our project delivery and production enhancements.

Skills/Requirements

• Graduate degree or equivalent
• Minimum 7+ years of Oracle Procure to Pay process implementation, Cloud preferable (Order Procurement Cloud, Accounts Payables Cloud, Contract Management Cloud)
• Minimum 5+ years’ service industry experience on Finance domain
• Minimum 3+ years of Direct and Indirect Procurement process implementations
• Minimum 3+ years of Supplier Portal and Sourcing Cloud implementations
• Minimum 3+ years of Contracts Management process as part of the Procure to Pay Oracle implementations.
• Minimum 2+ End-to-End, Digital Transformation projects experience as a consultant
• Thorough knowledge of how Supply Chain Planning and Procure to Pay are inter-linked.
• Thorough knowledge of inspections at receipt and Skip-Lots Of functionality as an inspection option
• Strong track record of Master Data Management best practices
• Production support experience
• Customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to prioritize and work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process is a plus.
• Ability to multi-task and handle design for multiple enhancements in parallel
• Willingness to engage with off-shore team members during their day-time business hours.
• Ability to balance self-sufficiency with asking for help/information.
• Ability to travel to client-locations when appropriate/needed within the project timeline.

B.Tech / M.C.A / M.B.A

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