Oracle Finance Architect & IT Lead - Financial Services

As a Finance Architect for Oracle ERP, EPM (Cloud and EBS) for my client's BI offices. Responsible for Implementing, improving, monitoring, and maintaining the bank’s Oracle financial application systems (i.e. Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets) to ensure operational efficiency and data integrity as well as provide functional support to end users. This job requires knowledge of Oracle ERP (Cloud and EBS).

As an IT lead for Reg Reporting, supporting reg reporting architect by ensuring that finance data architecture complies with inputs required for all regulatory jurisdiction reporting.

Responsibilities include:

• Business Alignment: Collaborates with EU business stakeholders for Finance & Reg Reporting requirements for critical programs.
• Architecture Oversight: Support the EMEA Finance & Reg Reporting leads to develops and maintains the architecture vision, roadmap for Finance & Reg Reporting
• Team Leadership & Development : Managing and mentoring a team of IT professionals, fostering a high performance culture and providing technical guidance.
• Data quality & Integrity: Implementing controls and processes to ensure the accuracy, completeness and reliability of financial data used in reporting.
• Process Improvement & Automation: Identifying opportunities to streamline and automate finance & reg reporting processes, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
• Issue Resolution: Investigating and resolving technical issues related to Finance & reporting system, working with vendors and internal teams to implement solutions.
• Documentation & Training: Ensuring that various product owners for Finance & Reg Reporting systems have up to date documentation and support training to users on new systems or changes.
• Manage Oracle ERP solution delivery and ensure requirements, design and solutioning are robust and aligned with the global templates for Oracle ERP and closely coupled systems.
• Lead a team of Oracle SMEs responsible for Oracle Financial Module(s) day to day support, rollouts, enhancements for EMEA with primary focus Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets modules
• Production support, hands on design and configuration duties and Oracle related interfaces
• Provide training to business users
• Facilitating / participating in Governance sessions and decision making. Leading Design Authority sessions and building trusted relationships with peer and senior stakeholders in appropriate business area.
• Ensuring all documents and artifacts are produced and kept current for assigned area, to meet Quality Framework requirements

· 15 – 20 years plus industry experience of which about 15 years of experience working on Oracle Financials in Finance organizations, typically banking sector.

· Strong understanding of finance and accounting principle & processes.

· Demonstrable experience of ERP systems (Oracle Financials) along with Regulatory reporting

· Experience with Cloud platform and Regulatory software like Suade,WKFS is beneficial

· Demonstrable experience of full life cycle implementation and hands on knowledge for Oracle Financials, mainly Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets modules.

· Solid understanding of record-to-report, procure-to-pay processes and internal controls

· System implementation and production support experience

· Knowledge of Oracle tables and SQL query writing

· Ability to work with various levels of business users, other IT staff and the vendor to resolve business and systems issues in a timely manner.

· Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills are required

· Proficient in using ticketing systems such as JIRA, ServiceNow

The successful candidate should be comfortable dealing with both business and technical teams and have strong communication skills.

Demonstrable experience is required in the following on one or more (preferred) of the modules above:

• In depth Knowledge of Accounting Principles
• Ability to gather, analyse, document, manage business requirements, and convert them into useable system specifications.
• Ability to communicate business concepts to technical teams and translate technical issues to the business community.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues/user requests and determine appropriate solutions.
• Perform system implementation (design and configuration) and general monitoring and maintenance tasks on Oracle Cloud and E-Business Financial Suite.
• Basic SQL skill for troubleshooting and interface projects.
• A willingness to learn new systems and keep up to date with banking solutions and regulations