16 Oct
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Argus Consulting (India)
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India
16 Oct
Argus Consulting (India)
India
: Oracle Fusion Financials Lead
Function: Enterprise Applications / Finance Technology
Experience: 10+ years overall IT experience
Core Expertise: Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials
Role Type: Technical-Functional Leadership
Role Overview
We arelo oking for an experienced Oracle Fusion Financials Lead to support its finance technology landscape and ongoing Oracle Cloud migration initiatives. The incumbent will lead IT-side coordination for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial close activities, ensuring smooth operations, timely issue resolution, and stability of financial systems.
The role requires extensive hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials, production support, integrations, data conversions, migrations, reporting, and troubleshooting. The individual will proactively document recurring issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and drive permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
The successful candidate will work closely with Finance, IT, application support, and implementation teams to improve operational efficiency and deliver reliable digital solutions for complex, dynamic business operations.
Key Responsibilities1. Financial Close Management
- Lead and coordinate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities from the IT and enterprise applications perspective.
- Work closely with Finance and accounting teams to ensure the availability, accuracy, and stability of Oracle financial applications during closing cycles.
- Coordinate issue triage, prioritization, escalation, and resolution during critical financial close windows.
- Monitor recurring close-related issues and ensure timely resolution to minimize business disruption.
- Establish operational readiness, issue tracking, and status reporting for financial close activities.
1. Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials
- Provide functional and technical-functional expertise across Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials.
- Work extensively with the following modules:
- General Ledger (GL)
- Accounts Payable (AP)
- Accounts Receivable (AR)
- Cash Management
- Fixed Assets
- Support application configuration, functional enhancements, customizations where applicable, and ongoing application maintenance.
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into functional solutions and technical specifications.
- Support financial process improvements, configuration changes, and application optimization.
1. Oracle Cloud Migration and Data Conversion
- Actively participate in the ongoing Oracle Cloud migration project.
- Support data conversion, migration planning, validation, reconciliation, and post-migration stabilization.
- Work on interfaces, inbound and outbound integrations, conversion programs, and migration-related defects.
- Collaborate with functional, technical, integration, and infrastructure teams to resolve migration challenges.
- Participate in requirement gathering, functional studies, gap analysis, technical design reviews, testing, and deployment activities.
- Support legacy Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) applications and related upgrade or migration activities where required.
1. Production Support and Root Cause Analysis
- Investigate production incidents and recurring application issues across Oracle Financials.
- Maintain a structured repository of recurring issues, incident trends, resolutions, and known defects.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective and preventive actions.
- Coordinate with relevant teams to resolve complex defects and minimize repeat incidents.
- Support incident management, problem management, change management, and release activities.
- Improve application reliability and reduce operational risk through proactive monitoring and problem prevention.
1. Integrations, Reporting and Technical Troubleshooting
- Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and support financial interfaces, conversion programs, and reports.
- Work with Oracle reporting and analytics tools, including BI Publisher and XML Publisher.
- Support Web ADI and other reporting or data-upload mechanisms used in legacy Oracle environments.
- Use SQL and PL/SQL for query development, data validation, debugging, and issue investigation.
- Troubleshoot stored procedures, packages, views, triggers, functions, and other database objects where applicable.
- Work with Oracle Forms customizations and personalizations, Oracle Reports Builder, WinSCP, PVCS, and related development or deployment tools, particularly in Oracle EBS environments.
1. Stakeholder and Delivery Management
- Coordinate with Finance, IT, business stakeholders, Oracle support, and implementation partners.
- Organize and facilitate financial close meetings, issue review meetings, and operational checkpoints.
- Maintain documentation covering requirements, issue analysis, technical solutions, testing, and operational procedures.
- Provide clear status updates,
communicate risks, and manage priorities during critical business periods.
- Continuously improve support processes, technical capabilities, and application performance.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree (BS/B.Tech), Master's degree (MS), or equivalent relevant experience.
- 10+ years of overall IT experience.
- 8+ years of experience working with Oracle Cloud Fusion Financials.
- Extensive hands-on knowledge of Oracle Fusion Financials modules:
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Cash Management
- Fixed Assets
- 5+ years of experience leading or coordinating month-end financial close activities from the IT side.
- Solid experience in Oracle Finance implementations, integrations, conversions, migrations, configuration, reporting, and application support.
- Experience in requirements gathering, functional analysis, gap analysis, testing, production support, and defect resolution.
- Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills, including query debugging and database troubleshooting.
- Experience with Oracle EBS, including R12-related functional or technical activities.
- Excellent organizational, planning, communication, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate effectively across Finance and IT teams.
Good to HaveOracle Cloud EPM
- Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS).
- Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS), including Financials, Workforce, Capital, and Projects.
- Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS).
- Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS).
- Narrative Reporting / Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service (EPRCS).
Legacy Hyperion Technologies
- Hyperion Financial Management (HFM).
- Hyperion Planning.
- Hyperion Essbase (ASO/BSO).
- Data Relationship Management (DRM) / Master Data Management (MDM).
Data Integration and Reporting
- FDMEE.
- Oracle EPM Data Integration.
- EPM Automate.
- Smart View.
- Financial Reporting Studio.
- Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).
Key Success Factors
- Reliable execution of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial close activities.
- Reduced recurrence of production incidents through effective root cause analysis.
- Stable and accurate Oracle Financials operations during critical closing periods.
- Effective contribution to Oracle Cloud migration, data conversion, and integration activities.
- Improved incident resolution, operational documentation, and cross-functional coordination.
- Strong collaboration between Finance, IT, and implementation teams.
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