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Job description / Role
Job Summary:
As an Oracle EPM Functional Consultant, you are primarily responsible for capturing, analyzing and estimating customer business requirements and translating them into Oracle EPM Cloud solution that fit within the customer’s business environment and business objectives also to help customers with their transformation from On-Premise Hyperion implementations to Oracle EPM Cloud solution.
You will lead complex functional/process analysis and facilitates workshops with senior customer resources and subject matter experts. Captures and understands client’s business requirements and specifies system, application or process designs and while helping the client with the transformation from his Oracle On-Premise to Oracle EPM Cloud to adopt to the Modern EPM Business Best Practices with minimum extensions.
You liaise with business analysts for the requirements, management for the estimations and high level planning, functional architects, technical architects, designers, developers, product team, and test teams for the solution implementation, during the entire phase of a project implementation.
Leads teams of designers and developers throughout the implementation and/or the Cloud Transformation life cycles to produce analysis and designs for new and ongoing projects demonstrating:
• In depth knowledge of EPM and/or Hyperion functional domains such as: Financial Planning & Budgeting, Financial Consolidation & Close, Financial Reporting, Profitability & Cost Management, Account Reconciliation, Essbase and others
• In depth knowledge of the overall architecture of Oracle EPM and/or Oracle Hyperion
• Expertise in application of Oracle’s OUM methodology.
• Expertise in supporting Testing, Defects Analysis and Fixing in sync with product development and support
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the Oracle solution, and keep abreast with the product roadmap.
• Good understanding of Oracle technology
Responsibilities:
The Senior Functional Consultant must be able to do the following task in their job function:
• Identify the appropriate software architecture based on the requirements and design elements contained in a system specification
• Analyses software requirements, defines solution parameters and specifications.
• Conduct formal workshops with the client to gather requirements, displaying knowledge of the business environment in defining the customer’s needs
• Produce the estimations of the solution and involved in the high level planning and implementation methodology of the project.
• Able to be engaged in Pre-Sales activities and writing of technical proposals
• Leads the function design process. Facilitates design workshops.
• Negotiates and manages functional scope to reduce business and technical risks for both the client and Oracle Consulting
• Requires Software Development Lifecycle experience.
• Ramp up on Cloud methodology and approach
• Able to apply professional mastery and industry-wide understanding of technology, tools and methodologies to develop solutions in leading edge or critical situations.
• Viewed by customers as a trusted adviser
• Able to manage the customer and manage situations during the implementation process with the customer
• Assist software developers with the creation of detailed software design specifications.
• Perform software version control and maintain periodic compilation schedule.
• Should be able to review the technical solution designs, configuration aligned with the functional solution.
• Should be able to conduct trainings for clients and within oracle.
• Coordinate with the product team to provide inputs for the future enhancement of the product.
• Good team player and have strong analytical skills.
• Self-motivated with a lot of energy and drive
• Mentor junior consultants.
Requirements
Qualifications:
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Engineering.
• Fluent in English and/or French on top of the Arabic mother tong
• Excellent presentation and verbal/written communication skills
• 5+ years of experience in software industry. Working in a consultancy capacity on customer sites
• Previous shands on implementation experience of Oracle EPM products and/or Hyperion products with at least 3 full cycles of successful implementations
• Business skills (Accounting, Budgeting, Costing, etc..)
• Flexible with travelling within the region (KSA, MEO and Africa)
As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).
About the Company
Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models - including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds - to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.
Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.
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