Oracle Lead Solutions Designer FP&A - Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite in London, 2 days remote - £90,000

We are currently seeking to recruit an Oracle Lead Solution Designer (Finance Planning & Analysis) to join our Technology team in London (with remote working too). The Technology team operates on a global basis and we are looking for a team player to assist in improving and extracting maximum value from our Oracle landscape.

This is a great opportunity for an Oracle Lead Solution Designer to play an integral role responsible for defining the overall architecture and design of IT solutions supporting Finance Planning and Analysis business requirements. The successful Oracle Solution Designer will be key in driving the technical direction and strategy for the organisation. The successful candidate will bring external experience and expertise of creating sustainable Oracle solutions, improving service standards, sharing best practice, and engaging with key stakeholders (internal and external) to provide excellent service.

A key member of the Back Office transformation team, the Oracle Lead Solution Designer will have the opportunity to work in a global solution delivery environment alongside key technology partners in delivering best of breed solutions to meet US centric and local accounting and financial reporting requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of the chosen Oracle solution(s) through the whole delivery life cycle, working with various IT teams and vendors to manage ideas, through to design, through to delivery and operation of Oracle Solution.
• Provide solution & design knowledge to advise project teams, business stakeholders and third-party vendors on Oracle options
• Ensure that all solutions in place are technically sound and optimized for best performance on the Oracle Cloud eco-system
• Ensure seamless integration and enablement of business self-service on reporting and analytics solutions from financial planning data and information
• Ensure that all solutions in place adhere to appropriate governance with supporting documentation
• Work with the wider team to refine the Oracle design roadmap within the Framework defined by Architecture. This will include inputting into cloud adoption and its implementation.
• Extensive experience of assessing and implementing internal and vendor solutions
• Mitigate risk and have awareness of emerging threats to security as well as compliance
• Assurance on integration design patterns and solutions are optimal and service based, leading to re-use and supportability in a BAU environment
• Ensure that solutions are an appropriate balance between short-term delivery needs and medium/long term strategic aspirations.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of Oracle technical roadmaps working with Architects to ensure aligned.
• Propose the Oracle system improvement ideas for better customer experience
• Present Oracle solution design to the stakeholders and feedback the comments
• Involved in all the phases of the solution delivery to guide the teams
• Conducting regular evaluations of the system architecture and collaborating with the teams to improve the designs
• Performing continuous research on emerging technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives and to improve the existing architecture
• Reviewing vendor designs, ensuring alignment to business requirements and supportable without creating unnecessary technical debt

Skills/Experience

Essential

• Proven experience in Oracle solution design, roadmaps and delivery
• Hand on in Oracle Cloud solutions including but not limited to: Accounting Foundation, Accounting Hub, Fusion ERP, EPM (EPBCS, EPCM), Oracle Integration Cloud, Enterprise Data Management Cloud Solutions
• Strong working knowledge in Oracle Cloud Products including AFCS, AHCS, EPM modules, EDMCS and OIC
• Previous hands-on experience and end-to-end implementations with Oracle Finance, Reinsurance or Cloud solutions
• Strong knowledge on analytics solutions that integrate into EPM delivering seamless self-serve capability for business users
• Understanding key finance planning and forecast data requirements, including processing of allocations and drivers
• Deep technical knowledge of Oracle Cloud products
• Should excel in Oracle finance planning and analysis processes
• Expertise in Oracle upgrades and patching
• Experience in Oracle migration and transformation
• Expertise in Sub-ledger to General Ledger actual vs plan integration and analysis
• Well versed with Oracle Integration to process significant data volumes, and manage hierarchy changes in EDMCS, supporting performance management
• Good knowledge in System performance improvements
• Strong knowledge in end to end to end design and integration systems
• Experience in Non-Oracle product integrations with Oracle
• Strong communication and presenting skills
• Experience proposing and implementing technically complex projects
• Excellent understanding of the project delivery life cycle
• Experience and knowledge of multiple Oracle products and services in general and how they work together
• Ability to rapidly pick-up new technologies, propositions and business challenges and translate them into Oracle Solutions and offerings
• Oracle Certification or relevant certification related to design or delivery
• Experience using Fusion Analytics and Oracle Analytics Cloud

Desirable

• Accounting qualifications, and/or significant experience in delivering US GAAP and IFRS reporting standards
• Insurance and/or finance services accounting standards and how they convert to system needs
• Awareness of the leading industry trends, industry standards and follow regulatory changes
• Experience using Fusion Analytics and Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Experience in non-Oracle analytical tools that connect to the Oracle Eco-System
• Oracle brownfield migration and/or greenfield experience
• Financial or Reinsurance experience or knowledge
• Configuration design experience for Oracle systems that are in the cloud
• Experience working with one of more of the following: SAP BW, SAP S/4, PeopleSoft
• Good knowledge in Oracle coding language and enhancements
• Previous experience in cloud products like AWS, Azure

Personal Characteristics

• Collaborates well with all levels within the organization
• Good Communicator - succinctly communicates vision to all stakeholders in a compelling and effective way
• Data Driven - values evidence, research and customer feedback
• Decisive - makes effective customer centric decisions
• Flexible - adapts and thrives under change and ambiguity in an independent and flat structure
• Excellent internal customer service and communication skills.
• Ability to understand and communicate technical language to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities
• Ability to produce accurate work under pressure with frequent deadlines
• Demonstrate critical thinking and analytical skills with attention to detail
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborating with others
• Ability to exercise confidentiality and professionalism in the performance of duties
• Self sufficient with the ability to maintain progress on tasks and projects