Oracle ERP Financial Management -  Senior Functional Consultant

Location\: Italy – Rome / Milano

Company Overview

For more than 35 years, Oracle has been helping customers manage their information systems.  With more than 125,000 professionals working in over 150 countries around the world, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack, from hardware to applications, in which every layer is engineered to work together as a single system. Oracle's industry-leading products give customers unmatched benefits including unbreakable security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership. Oracle has the best of breed technology at every layer of the stack, including comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions for business, IT, and development needs, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and data as a service (DaaS).

 

Oracle’s SaaS application portfolio covers full spectrum of market leading business applications including ERP Cloud, HCM Cloud, Sales Cloud, Services Cloud, CPQ, TOA, and EPM Cloud.

 

Oracle EMEA Consulting Overview

 

Oracle Consulting Services (OCS) is a more than $2b business with 18,000 professionals operating in 145 countries, working with Oracle customers to understand and analyze their IT problems and opportunities and provide the best Oracle technology solutions to address them.

 

Oracle EMEA Consulting Services organization operates in the following 4 geographical divisions\: UK & Ireland, Western Continental Europe, Central (Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS) and Middle East & Africa, with each cluster responsible for its own P&L.  Furthermore The Western Continental European Consulting division is based on 5 clusters\: Nordics, Benelux, DECH (Germany & Switzerland), France and Iberia/Italy.

Job Summary

 

As a Financial Functional Consultant, you are primarily responsible for capturing, analyzing and estimating customer business requirements and translating them into ERP / Cloud ERP solution architecture that fit within the customer’s business environment and business objectives. 

You will lead complex functional/process analysis and facilitates workshops with senior customer resources and subject matter experts. Captures and understands client’s business requirements and specifies system, application or process designs.  

You should also be in involved in a bid process in mapping the client requirements to the base product functionality to present a product fit. You should lead the complex functional analysis and review the solution overview, functional designs, technical designs, configuration within the project. You are overall contributor to deliver a fully-functioning solution to the client. 

You liaise with business analysts for the requirements, management for the estimations and high level planning, functional architects, technical architects, designers, developers, product team, and test teams for the solution implementation, during the entire phase of a project implementation. 

Leads teams of designers and developers throughout the implementation life cycles to produce analysis and designs for new and ongoing projects demonstrating\:

• In depth knowledge of functional domains 

• In depth knowledge of the overall architecture of ERP and/or Cloud ERP.

• Expertise in application of Oracle’s OUM methodology.

• Expertise in supporting Testing, Defects Analysis and Fixing in sync with product development and support

• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the Oracle solution, and keep abreast with the product roadmap.

• Good understanding of Oracle technology 

Responsibilities

The ERP functional consultant must be able to cover the following tasks\:

• Participate and manage the delivery of a the Oracle financial suite during Oracle ERP implementation projects

• Organize and Conduct formal workshops with the client displaying knowledge of the application and the business environment in defining the customer’s needs

• Influence the design maximizing the adoption of the Oracle solution 

• Configure the application according to the design decision

• Design and test the integration with other systems 

• Assist software developers with the creation of detailed design specifications for product extensions

• Support the data migration process from a functional point of view

• Take the lead on understanding new products or new features

• Participate to sales phase and support customer qualification and project scope definition 

• Define implementation Roadmap and produce project estimates with project managers 

Skills and Experience 

• Education level/Qualifications\: University degree in relevant field.

• At least 8-10 professional experience in ERP implementation projects as functional consultant.

• Strong knowledge of Financial Processes and ERP solution

• Ability to understand, articulate and address business issues, business drivers and needs

• Able to plan and conduct design sessions.  

• Able to influence direction of senior management in design sessions.

• Very good presentation and communication skills.

• Viewed by customers as a trusted adviser. 

• Fluent in English and Italian.

Why Join Oracle?

 

• A challenging job in a positive atmosphere within an international organization with a dynamic team.
• The opportunity to influence your job and your workplace and to become part of an innovative business unit.
• Oracle is one of the Cloud leaders and our portfolio is still growing and improving.
• Staying ahead of your competition means transforming towards an Agile business. Oracle has a comprehensive product- and services-portfolio and is one of the key players.
• Oracle stimulates to grow your capabilities and offers a comprehensive set of development tools.
• Being part of an experienced security team that stimulates you to extend your knowledge.
• A competitive compensation package that is aligned with your qualifications and includes an employee benefits scheme.

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!|!Junior consulting position for those who are continuing to develop their expertise. Receives general instruction on routine work and detailed instruction on new projects or assignments.

As a member of a project team, follows standard practices and procedures to analyze situations/data and provide quality work products to deliver functional and technical solutions on applications and technology installations. Work involves some problem solving with assistance and guidance in understanding and applying relevant Oracle methodologies and practices. Implements Oracle products and technology in various industries to meet customer specifications.

1-3 years of overall experience in relevant functional or technical roles. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience. Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus. Demonstrates competence in a minimum of one product or technology area. Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members and clients. Ability to travel as needed.

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