The Reporting Lead is responsible for designing, developing and managing Reporting solutions within Fusion REPORTING, EPM, Fusion Data Intelligence and Analytics and other Reporting solutions.

The role requires expertise in various Oracle Reporting tool, data analysis and collaboration with business stakeholders to deliver insights that drive business decisions. The fusion Reporting lead ensures data accuracy, enhances Reporting capabilities and provides leadership in creating a robust Reporting framework that supports all business functions.

• As a senior member of the Finance Systems team, is responsible for influencing, guiding and educating the organisation (working closely with the Global Process owner) on the subject matter in the Reporting and getting data insights
• Design and deliver Oracle Reporting functional architecture strategy with leading practices throughout all phases of Computershare’s Reporting Transformation
• Engage and guide stakeholders through the process to ensure the appropriate strategic direction is well understood and documented. Provides expert financial analysis and recommendations to senior management on business decisions related to REPORTING, and the strategic direction as required.
• Lead develop and motivate a team of technical specialists
• Aligns priorities and resources (short-term and long-term) and contributes to multi-year planning of REPORTING projects and strategic initiatives
• Ensure processes, procedures, and appropriate resources are in place and tested to ensure services are delivered to agreed service levels.
• Ensure appropriate resources are in place to implement, configure and support applications during the hours required by the business, ensuring application availability, performance, reliability, maintainability, serviceability and capacity are provided in line with agreed service level agreements.
• Ensure all support requests are logged, tracked and managed within service-level agreements to closure.
• Ensure team undertake proactive troubleshooting and root cause analysis of issues implementing preventative measures as appropriate.
• Support the planning and delivery of patches, maintenance releases and all major product enhancement releases to applications and integration components.
• Reviews and approves Change Requests with impact in the REPORTING space.
• Provide leadership and support to testing activities (e.g. System, Integration and User Acceptance)
• Support ad-hoc projects, e.g. acquisition/ divestment/ joint venture-related activities.
• Supports and is knowledgeable on all interfaces and integrations as they relate to REPORTING working closely with global technology teams.
• Maintain, support and provide guidance to peers on complex application configuration activities.
• Ensure the creation, review and ongoing update of Finance Systems Playbook so that support can be efficiently performed, and the impact of future change requests can be assessed.
• Maintain and support system security administration, i.e. access rights.
• Ensure data integrity, internal controls and audit trails are maintained throughout all applications.
• Ensure a high level of customer service focus and responsiveness to ensure delivery per service level agreements.
• Work closely with onshore and offshore teams within global technology teams.
• Identify opportunities to enhance technical support tools to drive service improvement

Essential

• Must have relevant tertiary education in an I.T. or Finance or related discipline
• Accredited with Oracle Certified Professional or similar
• Minimum 10-15 years of working experience with Oracle REPORTING technology ( preferably in a hands on functional or technical capacity)
• Exposure to Oracle Fusion cloud implementations in the context of how they relate to REPORTING.

Preferred

• Understanding Oracle applications and architecture would be highly regarded, but exposure to other financial system applications would be considered.
• Ideally, would have a degree in accounting or a recognised professional accounting qualification and a qualification in an I.T.-related discipline. Substantial experience in related areas would be considered in the absence of formal qualifications.
• Experience in COBIT or ITIL best practices.
• Experience in working within an Agile environment.