Oracle Financial Functional Consultant

Summary

Join Safelite, a leading auto glass company, as a Finance Applications Analyst reporting to the Finance Platform Manager. You will be responsible for reviewing changes to global finance solutions, ensuring alignment with business processes and minimizing risk. This role requires active participation in change and release management, collaboration with stakeholders, and QA of solutions. You will need a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 7-9 years of relevant experience, and expertise in finance applications, particularly Oracle Financials. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills and experience in solution design and architecture within Oracle Fusion or similar ERP environments. Safelite offers a collaborative work environment and values innovation and dedication.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
• 7-9 years relevant experience required
• IT Development and or Configuration experience with recent experience in a large international organization
• Experience in Finance applications including Oracle Financials with understanding of financial modules such as the General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Fixed Assets
• Experience in Finance operations from an IT perspective
• Ability to engage, build relationships with and influence senior leadership and key business stakeholders
• Communication skills – both written and verbal covering a wide range of stakeholder groups from management level to operational level (High proficiency)
• Regularly review and update design documentation. (High proficiency)
• Experience in solution design, architecture, and governance within Oracle Fusion or similar ERP environments (High proficiency)
• Facilitation skills (Medium proficiency)
• Networking (across multiple functions, business units, external stakeholders) (Medium proficiency)
• Ability to positively resolve conflicts (Medium proficiency)
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to think strategically and provide practical solutions. (Medium proficiency)

Responsibilities

• Actively support the general Change and Release management processes through provision of expertise in the application and the Belron business processes
• Assess changes as required and provide feedback on change documents and to governance forums
• Engage with process owners to facilitate understanding of technical changes in terms that allow them to provide feedback and approval as required
• Using their expertise work with the change and release manager propose additions to the list of standard changes for the Finance applications
• To QA solutions prior to their delivery to production
• Provide guidance on a limited basis to 3rd parties supporting or developing the application (this is meant to minimize potential for errors rather than 3rd parities being dependent on the DA)
• Provide assistance to the 3rd party support organization in the case of significant incidents or problem
• Support the MI process if required
• To interact with projects in order that they understand how the application is configured and managed in order that they can comply with the required ways of working and are able to deliver effectively avoiding risks (this applies after the TP project has completed)
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Change and release management preferred
• Familiarity with other Oracle Fusian or EBS (R12)