Role: Oracle EBS Finance Functional Lead
Location: Calgary, AB (Hybrid)
Mode – Contract
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Job description
Detailed JD :
Key Responsibilities
1. Finance Transformation Consulting
- Engage with CFOs, Controllers, and senior Finance stakeholders to define the digital finance strategy and transformation roadmap.
- Lead finance process discovery, assessment, and fit-gap workshops.
- Recommend Oracle Finance best practices, target operating models, and standardized business processes.
- Drive initiatives related to process standardization, shared services, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Advise clients on Oracle Fusion Cloud migration and Oracle EBS modernization strategies.
- Identify opportunities to streamline finance operations and improve governance, controls, and reporting.
2. Solution Architecture and Design
- Define end-to-end Oracle Finance solution architecture across Oracle Oracle EBS, and hybrid environments.
- Develop global process templates, reference architectures, and scalable solution designs.
- Lead functional and technical design decisions across finance workstreams.
- Ensure that solutions meet scalability, security, performance, and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure compliance with relevant financial and control frameworks, including SOX, IFRS, and GAAP.
- Define cross-module integrations with Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management, and third-party systems.
- Review and approve solution designs, integration approaches, reporting architecture, and security models.
3. Module Ownership
The role will provide architecture and functional leadership across:
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Cash Management
- Fixed Assets
- Expenses
- Intercompany Accounting
- Financial Reporting and Analytics
- Tax and statutory compliance
- Multi-ledger, multi-currency, and multi-entity accounting
4. Implementation and Delivery Leadership
- Lead Conference Room Pilots, solution design workshops, and client demonstrations.
- Guide Oracle application configuration, setups, and solution realization.
- Define and oversee data migration, validation, reconciliation, and conversion strategies.
- Review Functional Design Documents, integrations, interfaces, reports, and customization requirements.
- Lead System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities.
- Establish governance mechanisms to manage project risks, dependencies, issues, and design decisions.
- Lead multi-location and multi-shore delivery teams across onsite, offshore, and nearshore locations.
- Ensure delivery quality, adherence to timelines, and alignment with the approved solution architecture.
- Identify automation, productivity improvement, and cost-optimization opportunities.
- Ensure system stability, business continuity, and timely resolution of critical incidents.
- Support AMS-led engagements by providing solution governance and functional leadership.
- Support RFP and RFI responses, solution proposals, effort estimations, and commercial discussions.
Required Experience
- 12 to 18 years of ERP Finance experience, with substantial expertise in Oracle Finance applications.
- Experience in multiple end-to-end Oracle implementations, upgrades, or transformation programs.
- Strong experience with Oracle E-Business Suite Financials.
5. Functional Expertise
The candidate should possess strong knowledge of the following finance processes:
- Record-to-Report
- Procure-to-Pay
- Order-to-Cash
- Financial close and consolidation
- Treasury and cash management
- Tax and statutory compliance
- Intercompany accounting
- Fixed assets and capitalization
- Financial planning, reporting, and analytics
- Multi-ledger, multi-currency, and multi-entity accounting
6. Leadership and Behavioral Competencies
- Strong consulting, solutioning, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior business and technology leaders.
- Strong delivery governance and program leadership skills.
- Ability to mentor teams and build functional and architectural capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to support proposals, estimations, and account growth.
7. Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Experience in consulting, system integration, or large-scale managed services organizations is preferred.
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