About the Company: We are conducting a confidential search for our client, who is an international manufacturer of residential and commerical engineered surfaces and wholesale building materials. With thousands of employees worldwide and exceptional benefits, this is a company worth learning about.
Our firm is looking for a Financial & Accounting Systems Lead located in Greater Austin area. The company has global business units and is in the middle of a multi-phase ERP transformation on Oracle e-Business suite. This position will also play a key role in the Finance & Accounting center of excellence (CoE). The ideal candidate would be a hands-on subject matter expert in both processes and technology related to Oracle e-business suite financial modules and its integration to Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Manufacturing and Costing.
Required Qualifications:
- Prior Experience in defining systems requirements, designing and prototyping solutions, consulting with users on process transformation, testing, training, go-live, expertise in system cutovers and defining support procedure
- Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and to operate across functional lines
- Experience managing work stream scope, change requests, delivery against defined milestones; mitigate and remediate risk factors and propose solutions based on best practices
- Ability to balance multiple projects and prioritize competing business needs while delivering consistently high quality and timely work
- Experience in at least three EBS implementation cycle in current release of Oracle EBS Applications (R12)
- 10+ years of Oracle EBS (eBusiness Suite) functional implementation experience
- Hands-on Experience with Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Fixed Assets, Purchasing, Cash Management, TCA Customer Model, SLA, EB-Tax
- Complete and thorough knowledge of EBS integration of Supply Chain, Finance and manufacturing process
- Prior experience working with business that had intercompany and multi-currency transactions
- A good combination of skills in functional and technical aspects of Oracle EBS core applications
- Data analysis and management of all operations data not limited to but including Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, WIP, BOM, Master Data
- Ability to manage the changes required for better adoption of new solution driven processes
- AIM methodology and Waterfall / Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Create and initiate a center of excellence for operational finance process and associated applications and systems for continuous improvement of financial processes.
- Promote the adoption of best practices in finance application management
- Planning and delivery of strategic and tactical initiatives to the business leveraging Oracle e-Business Suite financial modules.
- Ensure the successful delivery of business requirements, functional configuration and delivery of business requirements leveraging Oracle e-Business Suite.
- Prepare and/or validate solutions for enhancements against Oracle best practices
- Conduct business workshop sessions and facilitate/document business requirements to understand business demand and initiatives
- Provide hands on setup and functional module implementation/configuration
- Demonstrated ability to improve process efficiency and promote and manage change in the organization
- Serve as the business process and system solutions subject matter expert to assist organization in optimizing, standardizing, and improving system solutions and business processes.
- Proactively partner with financial systems providers to understand relevant best practices and deliver new system functionality and solutions to support accounting, reporting, and financial planning
- Ensure the successful delivery of business requirements, functional configuration and delivery of business requirements leveraging Oracle e-Business Suite.
- Prepare and/or validate solutions for enhancements against Oracle best practices
- Provide hands on setup and functional module implementation/configuration
- Remain current on Oracle applications knowledge ensuring compliance throughout the project initiatives
- Enable and support monthly, quarterly and yearly financial close
- Collaborate with project stakeholders and analyze solutions for process improvement
- Ownership and accountability of the release management process to include prioritizing, planning, building, testing and execution in accordance with compliance requirements
- Responsible for data conversion, cutover, go-live and production support
Education and Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business management, Finance Information Systems, or related field
- In depth knowledge of accounting transactions and internal financial controls
- Certification in Oracle EBS
Nice to have, but not required:
- Certifications: CPA/CSCP/CPIM/CPSM
- PMP Certification
