The Oracle Application Functional Manager is responsible for the leading design and development of solutions for Oracle EBS and integrated tools/technologies. This role will be responsible for leading and directing a group of functional specialists under the guidance of the Global functional Services Manager.

Strategy & Planning

• Ensure that applications meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Review and analyze existing application’s effectiveness and efficiency, and then develop strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of application-usage best practices, standard processes, and local variations due to customer, legal, or business mandates.
• Proactively seek opportunities for support reduction through effective training, root cause analyses, and process refinement
• Strives to keep knowledge and expertise current with new releases, and technology advances and analyzes potential opportunities and risks in adopting upcoming versions of software.
• Actively engage business management to ensure business needs are met.
• Recommend business process improvements.
• Work with management to generate quarterly work plans including estimation of time and resource allocation for proposals.
• Determine staffing and skills requirements.
• Drive change.
• Proactively mentor the shared service team in processes, best practices, and troubleshooting and testing tools.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Gather requirements, analyze, create design documents, and perform impact analysis for application changes.
• Verify and suggest changes to requirement gathering, design documents, and perform impact analysis for application changes.
• Plan and organize tasks, report progress, manage & coordinate with team members for implementations.
• Evaluate, install, configure, and participate in the deployment of new applications, systems software, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout the enterprise
• Collaborate with analysts, designers, and system owners in the testing of new software programs and applications.
• Analyze documentation and functional specifications of any new application under deployment or consideration to determine its intended functionality.
• Ensure that any new software integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
• Participate and facilitate in the design, development, and deployment of application enhancements and upgrades.
• Coordinate feasibility studies for software and system products under consideration for purchase, and give advice based on findings.
• Develop, enhance, and deploy user training content, procedures, and troubleshooting guides
• Contribute to the pre-testing phase of development by evaluating proposals to identify potential problem areas and make the appropriate recommendations.
• Liaise with the company’s software suppliers for prompt rectification of any problems or emergencies.
• Manage proposal and support activities, plan and organize tasks, report progress, and manage resources.

Operational Management

• Provide solutions and suggest changes to leverage Oracle applications functionality for the Financial application landscape and suggest process improvements.
• Lead user sessions for requirement and testing (Prototype/Integration/Regression).
• Guides functional/technical team in the development of reports, conversions, interfaces, and extensions for Oracle Applications.
• Assist users with problems and resolve issues independently.
• Provide business reports to management and clients.
• Conduct activities like staffing, performance and resource management, and strategic direction of the team.
• Provide operational guidelines to ensure projects are completed within the appropriate framework.
• Provide regular, clear, and consistent communication (written and oral) on the status of projects, issues, and deliverables to representatives from the customer/vendor.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of key processes, schedules, cycles, profiles, etc. for the technical systems in use by the business.
• Develop solutions to leverage ERP application functionality and suggest process improvements.
• Liaise with business users, analysts, and software engineers to assist with quality assurance, program logic, and data processing.
• Work with vendor technical support to facilitate analysis and resolution of technical issues.
• Understand and modify Application Configuration as required (including system setups, flex-fields, custom library, profile options, etc.).
• Guides technical team in the development of reports, conversions, interfaces, and extensions for Oracle Applications.
• Plan & lead testing efforts for deployment, including creating test plans, test cases, and test scripts and performing functional & technical testing.
• Work with existing systems to track and manage requests and issues.
• Provide leadership to ensure appropriate reviews for design, code reviews, and standards are adhered to.
• Create and maintain development plans for each team member, including training, skills assessment, career planning, and goal planning.
• Ensure Functional Shared Service Center personnel are organizationally aligned with key roles and responsibilities of the department.
• Develop management dashboards to ensure tasks are completed timely and effectively.
• Participate in global steering committees, preparing and presenting to global control leadership for the company.
• Manage team organizational structure with team vision, goals, and defined roles and responsibilities.
• Manage team to track project deliverables and meet required timelines.
• Manage, develop, and mentor subordinates toward the building of a strong team.
• Conduct activities like staffing, performance and resource management, and strategic direction of the team.
• Set employee objectives, monitor, and evaluate performance, and provide feedback and coaching, mentoring, and training.

Incidental Functions

• Assist with various projects as may be required to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the work.
• Maintain current knowledge of the technology workspace in terms of current state, future possibilities, forthcoming technologies, and their relevance and impact.
• Develop & provide training and documentation for supported applications.
• Assist application development with technology design considerations and provide software expertise as a project resource.
• Mentor other team members as needed.
• Participate in hiring activities, fulfilling affirmative action obligations, and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.
• Attend management meetings on behalf of the team.
• Prepare and lead presentations as requested.
• Research or prototype new tools and/or technologies.

FORMAL EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree in Finance or Business preferred.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

• 12+ years of IT experience with increased responsibility in leadership role.
• At least 8 years of direct experience with Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS) with various financial modules among GL, AR, AP, FA, CM, OCM, IEX, CHRM, and Treasury.
• Experience in supervising/managing teams and functions in IT.
• Proven experience in overseeing the direction, development, and implementation of software solutions, especially in an international/global environment.
• Experience in managing teams, assigning tasks and managing tasks, delegating work duties, and leading functional teams of large-scale implementations.
• Experience directing and creating process flows and detailed functional design specifications (AN100) from business requirements and collaborating with business analysts, business users, and other developers in the development of new technical objects within the Oracle applications environment.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle EBS 12.1/ 12.2 releases to ensure effective and optimal solution design, deployment, and support of Oracle solutions.
• Extensive experience with ERP (Oracle Applications) and ability to troubleshoot, resolve, and identify solutions among various modules in the Financials area.
• Expertise in configurations of Oracle ERP modules, with experience in at least two cycles/ processes; including Order to Cash, Record to Report, Asset to Retire, Procure to Pay, Tax, Channel Revenue, Credit, and collections.
• Knowledge of AIM, OUM, Agile, or other implementation methodologies, experience in writing functional and technical specifications.
• Strong knowledge of Audit / SOX requirements for designing secure applications.
• Experience in working on the design of integration between Oracle ERP and external systems such as other ERPs or custom applications.
• Experience in analyzing functional system requirements and designing and developing solutions that fulfill business requirements.
• Strong systems/process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, organizational skills, and problem-solving skills.
• Proven expertise in designing technical solutions for large projects.
• Experience in developing documentation, white papers, and presentations to all levels of management and functional analysts.
• Understand various essential business functions of an organization.

Preferred Knowledge

• Experience in at least three (3) full life cycle implementations, Oracle preferred.
• Experience in leading at least three (3) projects as a Project Lead or Project Manager.
• Proficient in at least two (2) business process cycles, e.g., Demand to Build, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, etc.
• Expertise with configuration and setups for Oracle Financial modules.
• Exposure to Oracle ERP Cloud application.
• Exposure to application security technologies and approaches preferred.
• Experience in project management (PMP/ Agile) and system architecture methodologies preferred.
• Understand and execute the IT processes of Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and Configuration Management.
• Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures.
• Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
• Knowledge and familiarity with underlying Oracle ERP applications database architecture, as well as Oracle database and development tools (PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Forms, Reports)

Personal Attributes

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptional ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present technology overviews to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent systems/process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, organization skills, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Ability to quickly pick up new tools and technologies.
• Strong ability to train and teach others.
• Ability to facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment, and to lead and influence cross-organizationally with and without direct authority.
• Ability to collaborate with business, functional, and technical resources to understand and develop solutions that meet business requirements, translating strategy and objectives.
• Exceptional ability to effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements.
• Travel is required