Description
Inventory & Costing Functional Lead with proven experience of leading in the implementation activities of large scale Oracle Financials EBS system implementation. The successful Lead will be focussed on working with the PSBs and a team of specialists (functional consultants and developers) in leading the Functional understanding and implementation of Oracle Inventory, Oracle Cost Management modules and also functional design of business-critical Configuration, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Forms & Workflows related activities of the project.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Inventory & Cost Management Functional Lead will be a self-starter who is able to work in both a team and individual capacity and must possess strong client facing skills and stakeholder management skills, working in a methodical way whilst working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Responsibilities, include but not limited to:
- Supporting the deliverables as required of the other process design teams, working in partnership with their Business Process leads and with the Business Process Architect.
- Developing process scenarios based upon process maps to confirm Inventory requirements against the selected system throughout Design and Build Phases
- Supporting the Business Process Architect and the System Implementation Partner during the build process (both configurations and developments) so ensuring that appropriate knowledge transfer is taking place from/to the Project team in order to facilitate and understand the final built solution
- Support for both the Technical work stream for ICT infrastructure and performance readiness testing
- Providing hands-on support for the Deployment work stream for the roll-out of the built solution including support and participation in UAT, data migration to Production, training of end users, change readiness preparations and post go-live support
- Business Process advice and support to the Project change control and quality assurance process with specific responsibility for quality assurance sign-off on the agreed Project Business Process deliverable.
Skills, Experience & Knowledge of Candidate
The Inventory & Cost Management Functional Lead will have the following skills:
Required:
- A minimum of 10 years' experience of Oracle EBS functional, governance, modelling, Oracle EBS implementation best practices working with senior management levels. At least 2 implementation life cycle experience.
- Strong knowledge of Oracle EBS Functional modules like Inventory, Cost Management, Purchasing, Order Management, General Ledger
- Understanding of Oracle Inventory & Cost Management Technical Architecture.
Desirable:
- A degree in information systems or computer science
- Strong Experience & Familiarity with Oracle r12.
- Excellent understanding of Oracle Applications Implementation Methodology.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and client relationship management skills
- Experience in risk and issue management displaying strong problem analysis and issue resolution skills
- Skilled in project management and stakeholder management in relation to implementing Technical build and interoperability solutions for clients
- Experience in knowledge transfer responsibilities