Oracle Functional Analyst (Finance)

Job Description

This position is responsible for collection, analysis, review, documentation and communication of business needs and requirements to IT. Facilitates and leads the gathering of business needs, developing and/or assisting with solution design with the primary focus on the Oracle EBS HCM and Cloud applications and modules. Partners with Business Super Users and Subject Matter Experts provide technical assistance, while taking responsibility for resolution of any production issue caused by code defects, insufficient requirements, missing data, infrastructure failures and incompatible installed client software.

Functional Analyst will work closely with software engineers, DBAs, BAs, Infrastructure, and other teams to resolve issues and support production systems. Serve as a liaison to coordinate efforts needed to complete tasks and report problems and progress to management. This position will work with third party vendors to solve business needs, resolve issues quickly and develop root cause analysis documentation for outages.Responsibilities

This position is responsible for collection, analysis, review, documentation and communication of business needs and requirements to IT. Facilitates and leads the gathering of business needs, developing and/or assisting with solution design with the primary focus on the Oracle EBS HCM and Cloud applications and modules. Partners with Business Super Users and Subject Matter Experts provide technical assistance, while taking responsibility for resolution of any production issue caused by code defects, insufficient requirements, missing data, infrastructure failures and incompatible installed client software.

Functional Analyst will work closely with software engineers, DBAs, BAs, Infrastructure, and other teams to resolve issues and support production systems. Serve as a liaison to coordinate efforts needed to complete tasks and report problems and progress to management. This position will work with third party vendors to solve business needs, resolve issues quickly and develop root cause analysis documentation for outages.Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge of:

• Business Analyst principles; analysis and defining of business requirements and processes; quality improvement processes; Understanding of Quality Assurance, Project Management and SDLC methodology.
• Integrations with third party benefit providers, other partners.
• Experience in a Scrum/Agile development environment.
• Working knowledge with the Oracle HCM [EBS and Cloud] applications suite products in these areas:
  • Core HR
  • Absence Management
  • Time and Labor
  • Compensation
  • Performance management
  • Reporting - OTBI/BI-SQL
  • Payroll
  • Learning Management
  • Talent / Workforce Management - Recruiting
  • Oracle Analytics
  • Benefits
  • Application Object Library (FND)Fixed Assets

Ability to:

• Work within a team environment.
• Manage oneself in a complex, high speed, self-correcting environment obtaining desirable results.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Establish formal relationships with both internal/external partners of the organization.
• Determine and document comprehensive user requirements using a wide variety of techniques (e.g. Business Requirements Analysis, Use Case Design & High-Level Design).
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information, meet time commitments on multiple tasks with quality deliverables in unsupervised environment.
• Effectively facilitate and lead meetings, coordinate efforts for tasks that require collaborative work, and to work independently and as part of a team.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor/associate degree in business, Finance, Accounting IT or another related field. However, upon evaluation, equivalent 5 years' experience and/or education may be substituted for degree requirement.
• 5+ years of Oracle EBS/Cloud, IT experience.
• Business and Technical experience that includes business analyst and business partnership experience performing requirements definition, analysis, documentation, and design.
• Functional knowledge of developing languages being utilized - SQL.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: (Additional qualifications that may make a person even more effective in the role, but are not required for consideration)

• Expert knowledge of underlying Oracle Applications table structure. Firm technical knowledge including SQL*Plus and PL/SQL coding to support troubleshooting of existing and development of new customer processes.
• Functional knowledge of development languages utilized.
  • Application Express (APEX)
  • Oracle Application Framework
  • Oracle SQL Plus and/or PL/SQL
• Knowledge of the Oracle distribution and financial applications suite of products:
  • iExpense
  • iProcurement
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Cash Management
  • Channel Revenue Management
  • Fixed Assets
  • General Ledger
  • Inventory
  • Order Management
  • Projects and/or Grants Module
  • Purchasing
  • Trading Community Architecture (TCA)
  • Order to Cash
  • Procure to Pay