Oracle Fusion Finance Director IT Applications

$123,600 - $185,400/Yr

Acosta - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Senior

Dallas, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The IT Applications Director - Financials is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of financial applications within the organization, with a specific focus on the Oracle Fusion FIN and EPM platform. This position entails overall responsibility for the strategy, administration, development, and support for all of Acosta Group's Financial platform ecosystem. As a senior leader, the director will collaborate with business partners and technology owners to ensure that solutions are robust, performant, and scalable, while meeting business and company objectives. The role involves establishing and driving delivery for all Financial system capabilities in alignment with a multi-year Product Roadmap. In this capacity, the director will work across various functions including Applications, Architecture, Data, and Stakeholders to develop a strategic vision that adheres to the overall IT strategy and vision. The position requires managing multiple delivery teams and ensuring compliance with established standards and policies. Staying ahead of changing technologies is crucial, as is demonstrating experience with clean interfaces and successful user journeys. This high-impact, high-visibility position demands a leader who is collaborative, operates with a sense of ownership and accountability, and is skilled at managing competing priorities while building and nurturing an extraordinary team.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall Oracle Fusion Financial ecosystem (includes EPM and Financials); lead the SDLC process for the Platform.
• Serve as Solutions Architect in this space; understand business drivers and business capabilities (current and future state) and determine corresponding solution architecture design and change requirements to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Provide subject matter expertise and leading edge-thinking on trends, methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Oversee the implementation plans execution through to successful completion, with hands-on involvement as needed.
• Work collaboratively with Project/Program Managers in all aspects of the initiatives.
• Measure, analyze and communicate project and support metrics to ensure successful delivery and operations of the financial ecosystem.
• Analyze relevant information and prepare recommendations to guide teams in building high-quality solutions.
• Maintain Oracle POD strategy for the financial ecosystem and work with cross-functional teams for downstream/upstream connectivity.
• Build and maintain partnerships with vendors who Acosta group integrates with.
• Triangulate Development, Data, and Process to deliver leading edge, high quality and timely solutions for users.
• Hold teams accountable for quality of code, and achieving committed work within a sprint, release, or roadmap.
• Build, nurture, grow, coach and mentor team members; develop a continuous learning environment and continuously elevate performance amongst team members.
• Proactively identify risks - anticipate issues and guide teams through complex situations.
• Work across functions - Application, Architecture, Data, and Functional Partners - to design, build, and implement solutions that leverage Oracle best practices.
• Create better ways of solving technical problems and not be afraid of challenging the status quo.
• Ensure support for daily operations and that SLA is maintained for the ERP Applications; work with partners and business to communicate, monitor, and report.
• Ensure continuous leverage of the technology assets; business process redesign and standardization, helps to build capacities throughout the organization.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills needed to facilitate brainstorming sessions, build consensus, and shepherd solutions through governance forums.
• Perform other duties as required and/or assigned.

Requirements

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience with implementing, managing, and enhancing Oracle Fusion FIN and/or EPM platforms.
• 5+ years at director level or above with a proven track record of building and leading successful technology teams.
• 5+ years of experience leading large-scale end-to-end platform implementations and systems consolidations in a fast-paced software business using appropriate SDLC methodologies.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of SDLC and agile best practices and techniques.
• Able to create complex operational processes and procedures.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle Fusion cloud platforms (EPM, Financials) with advanced technical knowledge of core Oracle Fusion Financial configurations and standard practices.
• Significant automation experience for minimizing manual processes.
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies and tools.
• Expert communications with ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and key technical partners for development tollgates and governance forums.
• Able to document and tell a ‘story' for a technical recommendation from framework to feature level.
• 3+ years of experience in managing processes for environment management and integrity, security, pipeline management, code integrity, compliance, release management.
• Solid execution of practices for Jira/Azure DevOps Taxonomies, Story Writing, Story Pointing, Velocity measurement.
• One or more of the following certifications are preferred: Oracle Fusion Financial Cloud (Accounting, General Ledger, Payables, Receivables and Collections, Project Financials) or Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM (Planning, Financial Consolidation & Close, EDM).

Nice-to-haves

• Self-starter with proven leadership experience in the planning and delivery of enterprise-level technology to support key business initiatives.
• Ability to effectively engage with external and internal stakeholders in the identification and analysis of business process issues and business requirements related to the implementation of a significant business-related initiative.
• Demonstrated effective communication, attention to detail and the ability to adapt to changing work environments.
• Proven ability to make tough decisions, solve problems, and show initiative while working under pressure.