Oracle EBS Principal Analyst, IT Enterprise

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The application analyst responsibility is to work with the Oracle EBS Finance 12.2.4 systems functions and other systems of the company related to finance and to ensure it aligns with the business objectives of the organization. This individual’s principal goals are to resolve day to day issues raised by business, develop and manage application solutions for finance related systems within the organization.

The analyst will plan, coordinate, and design to ensure project goals and objectives are accomplished within prearranged time frames and budgets. The senior analyst of IT will work closely with decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost -effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization.

The successful candidate will have strong Oracle EBS Finance & Project accounting support and implementation skills.  

Key Accountabilities:

• Analyze and provide resolution to day-to-day business issues raised through ticketing system.

• Analyze, design and/or develop best practice business needs through technology solutions.

• Interact with Accounting, Finance and Procurement teams to understand their requirements and design solutions. Define new and refine existing business processes.

• Convert process improvements recommendations to actionable systems requirements.

• Participate in requirement gathering, aligning business requirements and best practices to implement a technical solution.

• Create systems documentations including unit test, solution designs.

• Support Quality Assurance efforts (test planning and execution) for periodic releases and new systems implementations.

• Contribute to continuous improvement and development of internal processes.

• Help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.    

Required Skills:

• Ability to co-ordinate across groups including motivating, developing, and coordinating team members.

• Client focused approach to work.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload for oneself and the team.

• Willingness to work in a matrix environment and to value the importance of teamwork.  

Knowledge and Experience:

• Design, develop, test and implement features and code on Oracle EBS R12 using OAF, Workflow and AME.

• Design and Implement Web Services using SOA.

• Help End Users Understand application features to accomplish their business purposes.

• Partner with Database and Middleware Administrators to achieve great application performance.

• Demonstrate advanced skills while coaching and mentoring less senior team members.

• Document code and projects so others can easily understand.

• Fulfill customer requirements as measured in customer survey scores.

• Show insight, know your application design & data, offer simple, working solutions.

• Apply team coding, documenting, and testing standards and recommend process improvements.

• Recognize upstream and downstream impacts; communicate effectively (verbally & in writing).

• Learn the Business Process Your Application Supports so your code will better support the business.

• Improve your application and team processes.

• Decrease incidents and increase uptime of your application.

• All other duties as assigned.

• Attendance as required by department.

• Remain compliant with our policies, processes, and legal guidelines.

• Code expertly in your application while following team coding and testing standards.  

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study.

• Minimum of 9 - 13 years using Oracle EBS.

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience working with (Procurement, Fixed Assets, AP, General Ledger) or Oracle Projects Billing, costing and Revenue cycle.

• Strong knowledge on SQL/PLSQL.

• Full lifecycle experience on OAF pages deployment.

• Should have worked on SOA, understanding of Web Services.

• Should have worked on Oracle EBS R12 Workflow, AME.

• Good to have Oracle APEX experience.

• Good to have experience on XML Publisher Reports.

• Good to have OCI experience.

• Must possess excellent financial and analytical skills.  

Preferred Experience:

• Application Support

• Financial Services.

• Experience on OAF.

• Experience on SOA & Web Services.

• Experience on Workflow and AME.

• Experience working with PL/SQL.  

Language Skills:

• Ability to effectively communicate in the English language verbally and in writing.

• Ability to read and interpret technical journals, specifications, international technical standards, etc.