Oracle Consulting – Cloud / Fusion Financial (PPM or EPM) Consultant (Contractor for Pharos team)

Job description

Oracle Consulting Services MEA delivery team located in Cairo Egypt, known as Pharos, is growing and expanding its business. We are looking for experienced Financial Consultants, capable of working with our customers to leading solution delivery development on their Fusion Financials cloud strategies, architectures, and roadmaps, who can join us immediately and grow with us. The candidate should have a very good understanding of Oracle Fusion solutions, industry best practices, multiple business processes or technology designs within a product/technology family.

The Financials consultant is responsible for working with our customers to design and configure business solutions leveraging the Oracle Fusion Cloud platform. This will cover functional areas of the Financials portfolio.

The Financials Consultant should be able to: Operate independently to provide quality work products to an engagement. Perform complex duties and tasks that need independent judgment, to implement Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs. Apply Oracle methodology, company procedures, and leading practices. Act as the team lead on projects and conduct effective communication with the management of customer organizations.

Demonstrate proven expertise to deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements. We believe that different points of view are essential for innovation, and we will offer the chance to be part of an inclusive culture where individuality thrives. We aim for building sustainable relationships both internally with our colleagues, externally with our customers and the communities we are part of.

What Does Oracle’s Consulting Organization Do? We deliver Oracle Cloud solutions with speed, efficiency and predictability based on our vast experience of more than 1,500 successful Cloud implementations in EMEA. Over 5,500 consultants across EMEA & JAPAC are passionately dedicated to ensuring Oracle Cloud success through our unparalleled experience and extensive global network. The One Oracle approach helps our clients in reducing risk and maximizing their return on investment.

We look at our clients’ business holistically to ensure business outcomes and empower continuous innovation. The initial collaboration is through a contractor relationship with Oracle Consulting with high probabilities for converting to Oracle employee based on performance, delivery quality, ability to travel and personality of the candidate.

What You’ll Bring

Education level/Qualifications: University degree in relevant field Your enthusiasm, knowledge, and customer-centricity will help us remain become the number one cloud company in the world.

• Strong Financial and Functional background Over
• 5 years of proven professional experience as practitioner and/or implementation consultant/Lead, working with Oracle Financials solutions
• Must have at least 3 full lifecycles implementation
• Strong awareness of the broad Oracle Financial Cloud applications suite of products and how they integrate together and within the broad Oracle application estate.

Awareness of one or more Oracle Fusion application products available in the market will be a plus. Proven experience implementing at least three or more of the Oracle Fusion Financials modules: General Ledger (Financial Control and Reporting) , Payables Management, Receivables, Management, Cash Management/Treasury

• Costing
• Budgeting and variance analysis, Fixed Assets accounting, physical verification and control, Taxation duties and levies, Consolidation and financial closing, Expenses Management, Advanced Collections, Advanced Access control, Advanced Financial Control, Financial Reporting and Compliance Experiences in Financials business process analysis and design especially for Core Financials in UAE, KSA, and typical integrations Superior ability to understand, articulate, and address business issues, business drivers and needs.

Able to plan and facilitate design sessions. Able to conceptualize a solution of significant scope, across multiple business processes. Very good presentation and communication skills What we offer International team with diverse backgrounds Strong and supportive consulting community Opportunities for learning and to work with cutting edge technologies. Conversion to Oracle employee based on results, performance as well as contribution to our results and growth.

Career Level - N/A

Responsibilities

An exciting, high-profile opportunity exists to join our growing Oracle Consulting MEA Delivery team (known internally to as Pharos team) as a Senior Principal Financial Consultant or a Financials Workstream Lead for Oracle Cloud implementations across MEA region depending on your experiences. Your role will be to implement Oracle Financials for customers across MEA, and typically involves the following : Work with the Project Manager and Solution Architect to plan the financials implementation project workstream.

Analyze customer business requirements, define solution parameters and specifications. Map requirement with Oracle Fusion capabilities.

• Conduct formal workshops with the client to agree the solution design, displaying knowledge of the business environment in defining the customer’s needs
• Work with offshore and/or local team to configure the solution
• Support business comparison test plans and activities
• Assess business and technical impacts of solutions
• Perform software version control and maintain periodic compilation schedule
• Conduct the knowledge transfer to the customer
• Ensure project accomplishment on time, on quality, as contracted, and meeting customer satisfaction
• Act as a Mentor to coach and train junior consultants.