Oracle Functional Analyst

Oracle Functional Analyst

£60,000 - £65,000

Bournemouth

About the role

We are currently seeking an experienced Oracle Functional Analyst to join our Bournemouth based Finance Systems Team. You'll work closely with the business customers to support the realisation of changes needed by both the finance and wider organisation. You'll achieve this by working as a subject matter expert in the Oracle EBS to provide solutions to the business and prepare for and support the transition to new ways of working adopting best practices including implementing new business processes.

You'll ensure business stability is maintained during the transition and all changes are effectively managed and integrated in to the business. You'll act as the bridge between your key stakeholders the development Team and the support team. You'll ensure that messages are clearly delivered to the operation, and the implications to the operation of project decisions and outputs are understood at work stream and programme level.

About you

We're seeking a true expert in Oracle Financials with extensive experience working across different modules - Payables, iReceivables/Receivables, General Ledger, iProcurement/Purchasing, Cash Management and Financial Accounting Hub.

Though the role is not technical, we are looking for someone proficient in writing SQL scripts and familiar with the oracle toolset Forms, Report Builder, Workflow, BI Publisher, XML Publisher, SQL Loader, Database concepts, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripts, SFTP/FTP.

Ideally, we're seeking someone who can act as the subject matter expert on Oracle eBusiness Suite with practical experience of taking projects and changes from inception to implementation.

We'll need you to use your expertise to help ,feed into project planning and provide regular updates to the project team and be able to articulate impacts of requirements on other areas the effect of any changes to these requirements on the deliverables and can effectively communicate the implications.

Details

• Be able to identify and communicate business impacts of scope, process and functionality decisions and influence the outcome of such decisions to achieve the best balance of commercial viability to operational outcomes.
• Effectively escalate impacts to the business on up to project level that would adversely impact their ability to function smoothly, or would detriment the customer
• Provide expert insight on operational processes, knowledge of opportunities to improve and not be constrained by existing practices.
• Support and contribute to delivery of accurate project deliverables
• Support and engage with the wider project/programme to ensure the system is delivered as per the functional design
• Demonstrate and communicate the solution to the business at regular intervals during the lifecycle of the project
• Support project testing and implementation, which may include checking results and problem resolution.
• To effectively communicate progress of project work and/or problems to stakeholders.
• Workarounds fit for purpose/acceptable/best option
• Excellent requirements gathering and analytical skills working as an oracle R12 E-Business subject matter expert and providing solutions to the finance community or wider business.

• Ensure all necessary documentation is in place e.g. solution design/technical design user guides/training documents.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing business processes and propose solutions to help the business address these.
• Implementing, configuring & supporting Oracle Financials for project and production changes including upgrades and patching.
• Understand Software Development life cycle both waterfall and working within an agile project management environment, and provide input into project planning / manage project plans as appropriate to the change and take responsibility through to implementation.

Reward and Benefits

We'll give you:

• 30 days' holiday, with the option to buy up to 2 additional days
• A competitive pension for which will pay twice the amount you pay, up to 14%
• An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance
• Single cover private medical insurance which you can upgrade to family cover
• A flexible benefits package (e.g. discounted retail vouchers, great value dental insurance)
• A generous 25% discount off products including home, pet and travel as well as up to 50% discount on your car insurance