Oracle ERP Finance Functional consultant

• Act as the primary functional point of contact for Finance and PPM business stakeholders in Italy.
• Conduct workshops and discussions with business users to understand current processes, pain points, requirements, and future-state needs.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
• Translate business requirements into Oracle ERP functional solutions.
• Challenge existing processes where appropriate and recommend Oracle-standard or optimized business processes.
• Facilitate discussions between business stakeholders and technical/IT teams.
• Prepare and maintain requirements documentation, process flows, functional specifications, and solution documents.
• Drive requirement sign-offs and obtain necessary business approvals.

Oracle Finance Functional Responsibilities

• General Ledger (GL)
• Accounts Payable (AP)
• Accounts Receivable (AR)
• Fixed Assets (FA)
• Cash Management
• Tax
• Intercompany
• Period close and reconciliation processes
• Understand end-to-end Finance processes and their integration with other ERP modules.
• Define and validate functional configurations and business process solutions.
• Support functional design, testing, defect resolution, deployment, and post-go-live activities.

Oracle PPM Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of Oracle Project Portfolio Management (PPM) processes and functionality.
• Experience with areas such as:
  • Project Costing
  • Project Accounting
  • Project Management
  • Project Contracts
  • Project budgeting and forecasting
• Understand the integration between PPM and core Finance processes.
• Work with business teams to define and validate project accounting and project financial requirements.

ERP Implementation & Migration

• Participate in and/or lead Oracle ERP implementation and transformation projects.
• Experience working through the full ERP implementation lifecycle, including:
  • Requirement gathering
  • Fit-gap analysis
  • Configuration
  • Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Cutover
  • Go-live
• Support Finance and PPM data migration activities, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and business sign-off.
• Coordinate with technical/data migration teams to ensure successful migration of Finance and project-related data.
• Support legacy-to-Oracle process and data transition activities.

Testing & Deployment

• Develop and review functional test scenarios and test cases.
• Coordinate UAT with Italian business stakeholders.
• Track and resolve functional issues and defects.
• Support business users during testing and provide clarification on Oracle functionality.
• Coordinate business readiness and obtain UAT/sign-off approvals.
• Support cutover and go-live activities.

Stakeholder & Project Management

• Work closely with Finance leadership, business process owners, SMEs, IT teams, system integrators, and project managers.
• Manage discussions with senior stakeholders and communicate complex functional topics clearly.
• Track open requirements, decisions, dependencies, risks, and actions.
• Ensure timely closure of business decisions and approvals.
• Represent the Finance/PPM functional workstream in project meetings and governance forums.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of experience in Oracle ERP Finance functional consulting.
• Strong experience in Oracle ERP implementation and/or transformation projects.
• Proven experience in ERP migrations, particularly Finance-related data and processes.
• Strong functional expertise in Oracle Finance.
• Good hands-on knowledge of Oracle PPM.
• Experience across both Finance and PPM is essential.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Finance business processes.
• Experience in requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, functional design, testing, UAT, migration, and go-live.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and process owners.
• Strong experience in conducting business workshops and documenting requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to drive business approvals and sign-offs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of functional deliverables.
• Experience working in large, complex, multinational ERP programs is preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP experience is highly desirable.
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite and/or Oracle Fusion is preferred.
• Experience in Oracle Finance + PPM integration