Oracle E-Business Suite Financial Mgmt Functional SME

Required Start Date: 4 March 2024

End Contract Date: 31 December 2024

Required Security Clearance: SC Clearance 

Duties and Role:

The incumbent will be responsible for FinS Service Lifecycle Management activities and will work as part of the SSBA BA FinS Service Delivery team. Duties will be mainly service oriented but the incumbent might as well be asked to work on incoming projects. Under the overall direction of the FinS Service Owner and Service Delivery Manager, the incumbent will perform duties such as the following:

• Being responsible for the assigned business applications and services.
• Providing 2nd and 3rd line support to the assigned business applications, by responding to service requests, investigating and resolving incidents and problems, communicating solutions or advice to customers and users on changes and improvements based on best business practices.
• Contributing to the gathering, analysis, setup, design and documentation of new requirements and change requests.
• Providing time estimates for the development and implementation of new requirements.
• Ensures full lifecycle tests of requests for change before they are presented to the user for user acceptance testing.
• Active contribution to relevant projects or service operation across Service Lines where integration is required.
• Providing briefings and presentations.
• Performing other duties as may be required.

Requirements

Skill, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• A minimum of 4 years current, detailed and relevant knowledge and experience.
• Basic SQL and SQL*Plus knowledge.
• Familiarity with configuration management / versioning procedures and tools.
• Able to work under pressure, on own initiative and without constant supervision, to strict and tight deadlines.
• A good team player and a good communicator.
• Experience of working in a team that delivers a highly available service.
• Competent in documenting work done.
• English proficiency level: SLP 3333 according to STANAG 6001.
• A minimum of 4 years current, detailed and relevant knowledge of and experience with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 and 12.2.10+.
• Basic understanding of the data model for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 and 12.2.10+.
• Working knowledge of the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) and/or the Oracle Application Implementation Methodology (AIM).
• Detailed knowledge of and experience with all Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 and 12.2.10+. Financials applications responsibility including System Administrator from setup to functional reporting. This should include but not limited to:
• Excellent understanding of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management and Sub-Ledger Accounting;
• Strong understanding, Purchasing, and Fixed Assets business flows and setups plus their implications at General Ledger level;
• Excellent understanding of budget accounting (summary account, budgetary control configuration), encumbrance accounting, accrual accounting and experience of Public Sector accounting processes.
• Ability to perform a range of Financials associated duties (reconciliation, consolidation, revaluation);
• Understanding month-end and year-end processes of predefined sub-ledgers and General Ledger;
• Understanding all aspects of Finance related reporting, including but not limited to identification of appropriate standard reports and the functional design of any additional reports required;
• Thorough understanding of bank reconciliation process and use of electronic banking payment formats;
• Knowledge of and experience with all different finance approval workflows (Accounts Payable, Purchasing, General Ledger);
• Understanding internal controls, including but not limited to user access, responsibilities, security rules, report groups, profile options.
• Understanding flexfields configuration.
• Workflow monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Understanding standard open interfaces.
• Understanding Approval Management Engine configuration.
• Experience with writing detailed functional design documents based on new or changed business requirements.
• Experience with the review of business procedures and functional setup. Experience with making recommendations for changes, improvements etc. based on best business practices.
• Experience with preparing, running and documenting unit tests, system tests and user acceptance tests.
• Ability to work with System Administrator and Application Developer responsibilities
• Experience with WebADI

Desirable:

• Recent experience of working in NATO.
• Good knowledge of and experience with all Oracle EBS Release 12.1.3 and 12.2.10+. Purchasing applications and good understanding of the Procure to Pay processes.
• Knowledge of and experience of upgrading EBS Release 12.1.3 to EBS Release 12.2.x.'
• Prior experience with support of NATO's custom EBS travel add-on.
• Experience with using helpdesk ticketing system like BMC ITSM