Lead the full lifecycle Oracle Cloud ERP functional workstream across Financials, Procurement, Project Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Performance Management. Own discovery, future-state design, configuration, testing, deployment, stabilization, and client communication. Coordinate integrations, data conversion, reporting, security, HCM, and Payroll dependencies while directing onshore and offshore teams. Serve as the primary functional escalation point, mentor consultants, manage risks and decisions, and ensure successful knowledge transfer and business adoption.
Oracle Cloud ERP Lead
Functional Leadership | Full Lifecycle Oracle Cloud Implementation
Role Focus: Lead the end-to-end Oracle Cloud ERP functional workstream across Financials, Procurement, Project Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Performance Management, aligning the solution across HCM, Payroll, integrations, reporting, data conversion, testing, and deployment.
OverviewThe Oracle Cloud ERP Lead provides functional leadership for a full-lifecycle Oracle Cloud implementation. The role owns the overall ERP solution across core Financials, Procurement, Project Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Performance Management, while coordinating cross-functional dependencies with HCM, Payroll, data conversion, integrations, reporting, security, testing, and change management.
This is a senior, client-facing delivery role responsible for translating business objectives into an integrated Oracle Cloud ERP solution. The lead guides discovery, future-state process design, requirements, configuration, validation, deployment, and post-production stabilization, while directing onshore and offshore functional resources and serving as the primary ERP escalation point.
Key ResponsibilitiesERP Functional Leadership- Lead the ERP functional workstream from discovery through deployment and stabilization.
- Own the integrated solution design across General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Expenses, Procurement, Self Service Procurement, Sourcing, Supplier Management, Project Financial Management, Grants where applicable, and Planning and Budgeting.
- Ensure functional decisions support enterprise-wide business processes, reporting, controls, security, integrations, and data requirements.
- Provide direction to module leads and coordinate work across onshore and offshore functional teams.
- Serve as the first point of escalation for ERP functional issues, design decisions, and client concerns.
- Lead client discovery workshops and document current-state processes, requirements, pain points, and desired outcomes.
- Design future-state business processes using Oracle Cloud capabilities and industry leading practices.
- Lead fit-to-standard and fit-gap analysis, identify solution options, and document design decisions and approved exceptions.
- Maintain functional requirements, process flows, configuration workbooks, decision logs, and traceability to testing and deployment.
- Identify cross-functional dependencies and facilitate decisions across ERP, HCM, Payroll, data, reporting, integrations, and security.
- Provide hands-on configuration leadership and quality review across the Oracle Cloud ERP solution.
- Assign and oversee configuration activities completed by module leads and offshore resources.
- Partner with technical teams to define, review, and unit test extensions, integrations, conversions, reports, and workflows.
- Confirm configurations are consistent across business units, ledgers, legal entities, charts of accounts, approval structures, and related enterprise structures.
- Promote reusable standards, templates, and delivery practices that improve quality and speed.
- Lead Conference Room Pilots, solution validation sessions, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, regression testing, and production-readiness reviews.
- Ensure test scenarios cover end-to-end business processes, cross-module dependencies, integrations, reporting, security, and converted data.
- Drive resolution of defects and design issues identified during CRPs and testing cycles.
- Lead functional readiness, cutover planning, deployment support, and business validation activities.
- Provide post-production stabilization and issue-resolution support for approximately 30 days after deployment.
- Communicate ERP status, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and milestones to the Project Manager and project governance teams.
- Lead client knowledge-transfer, solution walkthrough, and validation sessions.
- Partner with business process owners to obtain timely decisions, approvals, and functional sign-offs.
- Mentor functional consultants, review deliverables, and ensure adherence to project methods and quality standards.
- Work effectively with globally distributed clients, onshore, and offshore resources.
- 7+ years of Oracle ERP experience, including extensive experience with Oracle Cloud ERP applications.
- Participation in at least three full-lifecycle Oracle Cloud ERP implementations with hands-on functional configuration responsibility.
- Lead responsibility on at least one full-lifecycle Oracle Cloud ERP implementation.
- Demonstrated functional depth across multiple ERP areas, including Financials and at least one of Procurement, Project Portfolio Management, or Enterprise Performance Management.
- Experience gathering and documenting business requirements, facilitating fit-to-standard or fit-gap analysis, leading CRPs, configuring the solution, supporting testing, and delivering client training and knowledge transfer.
- Understanding of ERP integrations, data conversions, reporting, security, workflows, and enterprise structures sufficient to lead an integrated solution.
- Strong business communication, facilitation, presentation, issue-resolution, and customer-management skills.
- Ability to lead and collaborate with onshore and offshore functional and technical teams.
- Experience with Oracle Cloud Financials, Procurement, Project Portfolio Management, and Planning or Budgeting.
- Experience leading ERP delivery for public-sector or education is preferred.
- Knowledge of Oracle implementation methods, quarterly update impacts, role-based security, and Oracle Cloud reporting tools.
- Oracle Cloud certification in one or more applicable ERP functional areas.
- An integrated Oracle Cloud ERP solution that meets approved business, control, reporting, and operational requirements.
- Consistent solution design and delivery across ERP modules and related workstreams.
- Completed configuration, validation, testing, knowledge transfer, deployment, and stabilization activities on schedule.
- Timely resolution of functional risks, defects, and cross-workstream dependencies.
- Client process owners prepared to operate and support the implemented solution.
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