Oracle Finance Platform Lead

Job Description

Role: Oracle Finance Platform Lead (FTC)
Day Rate: £450 p/d Inside IR35
Location: Bristol HQ - Hybrid Model (3 days p/w on site)
Duration: 6 months - extensions highly likely

The Finance Platform Lead will provide technical leadership, guidance, and expertise in the development, implementation, and optimisation of our Finance Platforms (predominantly Oracle EBS). You will own the Finance (Oracle EBS/Fusion) Platform vision, strategy and roadmap ensuring communication and buy-in from the wider business.

Experience Required:

• Experience with Oracle Systems, Modules, including Finance, P2P, and Workflow.
• Proficient in providing support and analysis for Oracle EBS R12; preferably familiar with using a call logging system.
• Technical understanding of Oracle Databases and development tools.
• Familiar with UAT processes
• Previous successful delivery and measurement of innovation and continuous improvements across Platforms / Products.
• Track record of managing complex technology projects from design to build, test, implementation and measurement.
• Has built strong relationships with third-party SaaS supplier creating and driving results.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of the business and team members.
• Ability to understand and use data to drive decisions and prove or dis-prove hypothesis.
• Understanding of complex business problems to apply technology and the "art of the possible" to solving these problems for the business and our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Build and grow a high performing team with the skills to deliver digital-enabled value through our current and future Finance platforms (primarily Oracle EBS).
• Work closely with the business to set Finance platform strategy, priorities, manage dependencies and maintain alignment with business outcomes.
• Establish and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver large scale changes and continuous improvement (small change) through the entire development life cycle.
• Accountable for in-life platform performance, defining and reporting on success.
• Provide expertise and team leadership in managing end-user support; creating robust business processes and system documentation; diagnosing and fixing system issues; managing UAT; and ensuring Audit compliance of the platform.
• Set and align team priorities with our overall Digital, IT and Business Strategy and OKRs.