Oracle Fusion Financials Functional Lead

Summary

The Techno-Functional Lead, Oracle Fusion Financials is a senior role (Senior Consultant / Manager level) that combines functional leadership, solution architecture and design authority, and system administration for Oracle Fusion General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Project Portfolio Management, and Fixed Assets across both implementation and steady-state operation.

As functional lead and solution architect, the role owns functional and configuration design for the assigned modules, makes design decisions within program standards, and ensures the subledger-to-ledger accounting flow is correct, controlled, and reconcilable. As an administrator, the role owns ongoing configuration including quarterly Oracle release adoption, support environment and change management.

The role is hands-on: it designs, configures, loads and validates data, builds reports, and resolves issues directly, while directing analysts, consultants, and System Integrator resources within the workstream.

The role reports to the VP, Finance Transformation and Automation and partners with process owners, the accounting and control teams, Technology, third-party providers, and the System Integrator. Deep platform architecture and custom integration development remain with Technology and the System Integrator.

Key Focus Areas

• General Ledger & Financial Structure Chart of accounts, primary and secondary ledgers, accounting calendars, currencies, intercompany, allocations, revaluation, translation, and period close.
• Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Invoice and payment processing, matching and tolerances, approvals, collections, receipts, subledger accounting rules, and reconciliation to GL.
• Projects & Fixed Assets Project setup, costing and billing, capitalization, asset additions, depreciation, transfers and retirements, and the CIP-to-asset flow.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This role may supervise or coordinate analysts, consultants, and third-party or System Integrator resources within the assigned Oracle workstream. It provides solution and administration leadership across process owners, subject-matter experts, Technology, and third-party providers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Solution Architecture & Design Authority Hold design authority for Oracle Fusion GL, AP, AR, Projects, and Fixed Assets: own functional and configuration design and make design decisions within program architecture and control standards.
• Translate accounting, control, operational, and reporting requirements into a coherent, scalable, and maintainable module design.
• Review and approve relevant System Integrator design deliverables for business fit, compliance, and maintainability.
• Maintain design documentation, configuration workbooks, and decision logs for the assigned modules.
• System Support Administer configuration, workflow approvals, and data-access controls for the assigned modules, applying segregation-of-duties principles.
• Own quarterly Oracle release adoption: assess new features, plan and execute regression testing, and manage change impacts.
• Support configuration migration, and change control across instances.
• Provide support for the assigned modules, and drive issue resolution and enhancements.
• General Ledger & Reporting Foundation Configure and maintain chart of accounts, ledgers, calendars, currencies, and cross-validation and security rules.
• Design and implement journal workflows, allocations, revaluation, translation, and period-close processes.
• Ensure the subledger-to-GL accounting flow reconciles and supports statutory and management reporting.
• Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Configure supplier, invoice, matching, tolerance, approval, payment, customer, receipt, and collections processes.
• Define and validate AP and AR subledger accounting rules and reconciliation to GL.
• Projects & Fixed Assets Configure project templates, costing, budgeting, capitalization, and billing; and asset categories, books, depreciation methods, and the CIP-to-asset process.
• Validate that project and asset costs flow correctly to GL and reporting.
• Data Conversion, Integration & Testing Lead data conversion for chart of accounts, balances, open AP and AR, suppliers and customers, projects, and asset registers using FBDI and ADFDI; validate and reconcile converted data.
• Support integrations between the financial modules and source or third-party systems and validate end-to-end accounting.
• Build and execute test scripts across SIT and UAT and drive defect resolution.
• Reporting & Reconciliation Build and maintain financial reports and reconciliations using OTBI, BI Publisher, and Financial Reporting or SmartView as applicable.
• Establish period-close reconciliation and control checkpoints for the assigned modules.
• Cutover, Go-Live & Stabilization

• Support cutover planning, opening-balance validation, go-live execution, and hyper-care for the financial modules.
• Transition into steady-state administration and the post-production operating model.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Multiple full-lifecycle Oracle Fusion implementations with design-authority or solution-architect responsibility for Financials (GL, AP, AR), with working knowledge of Projects and Fixed Assets.
• Senior Consultant or Manager-level experience leading configuration design and administration for the assigned modules.
• Strong understanding of subledger accounting, chart-of-accounts and ledger design, period close, and subledger-to-GL reconciliation.
• Hands-on administration experience: security and role design, configuration and change management, and quarterly Oracle release adoption and regression testing.
• Experience with data conversion using FBDI and ADFDI and report build with OTBI and/or BI Publisher.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, approval workflows, and segregation of duties.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, and the ability to direct analysts, consultants, and SI resources.
• Ability to operate at both architecture/design and detailed, hands-on levels.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA, CMA, or Oracle Cloud certifications in the assigned modules (Financials, General Ledger, Payables, Receivables).
• Experience with Accounting Hub (AHCS) and multi-ledger (primary and secondary) accounting.
• Experience with multi-country, multi-entity, and multi-currency deployments and statutory/localization requirements.
• Experience with EPM and consolidation (FCCS) and SmartView.
• Familiarity with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and SQL for data validation.
• Experience in cinema, hospitality, retail, food service, entertainment, or another high-volume, multi-location business a plus.

Solution Architecture & Administration Competencies

• Design authority and configuration design across GL, AP, AR, Projects, and Fixed Assets.
• Security, segregation-of-duties, and change-management discipline.
• Quarterly release management and regression testing.
• Data conversion and validation (FBDI/ADFDI) and report build (OTBI/BI Publisher).
• Direction of analysts, consultants, and SI resources.
• Clear communication with accounting, operations, and technical audiences.

Measures of Success

• Module design is documented, approved, and built to standard; the subledger-to-GL flow reconciles.
• Converted balances and open items are validated, reconciled, and approved before go-live.
• Financial modules deploy without material disruption to close, payments, receipts, or reporting.
• Quarterly Oracle releases are adopted on schedule with no material regression, and production issues are resolved within agreed service levels.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

CPA, CMA, and/or Oracle Cloud certification(s) in the assigned Financials modules preferred.

Language Ability:

Should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills to: (1) supervise (2) communicate with stakeholders, executives, vendors, etc. Strong written skills and presentation skills.

Math Ability:

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills:

Oracle Fusion Financials (GL, AP, AR, Project Portfolio Management, Fixed Assets), Security Console and role design, Functional Setup Manager (FSM) and configuration workbooks, FBDI/ADFDI, OTBI, BI Publisher, advanced Excel and SmartView; SQL and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) familiarity a plus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. The noise level in the environment is moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.