Oracle Fusion Finance Functional Lead

Oracle Fusion Finance Functional Lead

Experience: 8-10 years  |  Location: Onsite, Dubai / Abu Dhabi (customer location)  |  Positions: 2

Functional lead for Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials at an enterprise UAE client, owning requirement workshops through configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support, and coordinating an offshore team for design, development, and testing.

Lead-level requirements (mandatory)

• 8-10 years of Oracle Financials experience with hands-on Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials configuration.

• Led at least 3 end-to-end Oracle Fusion Financials implementations, from running user workshops through deployment - evidenced at project level with client, scope, and go-live.

• Experience working directly with end users and coordinating an offshore team for design, development, testing, and deployment.

• Strong functional expertise, evidenced at project level, in General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, and Expenses.

Key responsibilities

• Lead requirement gathering workshops with Finance stakeholders to understand current business processes and pain points.

• Configure and set up Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials modules, including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets (FA), Cash Management (CM), and Expenses.

• Design and configure the Chart of Accounts (COA), ledgers, legal entities, and business units to align organizational and statutory reporting requirements.

• Configure subledger accounting (SLA) rules to meet accounting and reporting requirements across modules.

• Define and configure approval workflows (BPM) for invoices, expense reports, journals, and payment approvals.

• Lead functional design of month-end/quarter-end/year-end close processes, including reconciliation and intercompany accounting configurations.

• Experience preparing BR100 configuration documents, functional test scripts, and training materials.

• Familiarity with tax configurations (VAT/GST/withholding tax) and statutory/localization requirements.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams on reporting, integration, and data conversion requirements.

• Prepare and review functional design documents (FDDs), configuration workbooks (BR100s), and test scripts (test cases, SIT/UAT scenarios).

• Collaborate with technical teams to define requirements for reports (BIP/OTBI), data conversions (FBDI), and integrations relevant to Finance processes.

• Support statutory and tax reporting configurations, including multi-currency, multi-ledger, and localization requirements for different countries.

• Conduct CRP (Conference Room Pilot) sessions, functional testing, and UAT support with business users.

• Troubleshoot functional issues related to accounting entries, workflow approvals, tax calculations, and period close.

• Provide functional guidance on Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) integration points as they relate to Finance.

• Support security setup relevant to Finance (data roles, duty roles, segregation of duties) in coordination with security teams.

• Assess impact of Oracle's quarterly updates on existing Finance configurations and recommend necessary adjustments.

• Provide end-user training, documentation, and post-go-live production support for Finance modules.

• Act as a liaison between business users, technical teams, and Oracle Support for Finance-related SRs and enhancement requests.

Working knowledge expected

• Functional Setup Manager discipline: implementation projects, offering opt-in, setup export/import between environments, and rapid implementation spreadsheets.

• UAE statutory practice: VAT configuration and reporting, corporate tax readiness, and e-invoicing readiness for UAE entities; multi-ledger and multi-currency setups.

• Spreadsheet-based processing Finance relies on daily: ADFdi journal uploads and FBDI file preparation from the functional side.

• Awareness of the Redwood UX transition for Financials pages and its impact on training, testing, and quarterly regression.

• Lead behaviours: workshop facilitation and fit-gap ownership, decision logs signed off by process owners, and a working cadence with offshore developers (specification, review, defect triage).

Preferred

• Experience with Procurement or Projects modules and their integration with Finance.

• Exposure to Oracle Fusion Tax and Advanced Collections.

• Oracle Cloud certifications (Fusion Financials).

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Information Systems; MBA/CA/CPA a plus.

When applying, your CV must explicitly cover

• List the end-to-end Fusion Financials implementations you personally led: client, modules, team size (onsite and offshore), and go-live date.

• Name the Fusion Financials modules you have personally configured and the implementations you configured them on.

• State your notice period explicitly.

• Evidence each module or skill you claim with a named project or engagement; skills lists without project detail carry no weight.

• List relevant Oracle Cloud certifications with the year obtained.

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