Oracle Finance Platform Lead - 6 Month FTC

Summary: This role is for an Oracle Finance Platform Lead on a 6-month fixed-term contract based in Bristol, requiring hybrid working with three days on-site. The position involves providing technical leadership and strategic direction for the development and optimization of Oracle EBS finance platforms, while managing a team of finance analysts. The successful candidate will ensure alignment with business objectives and drive continuous improvement through user insights and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and grow a high performing team with the skills to deliver digital-enabled value through their current and future Finance platforms (primarily Oracle EBS).
• Empower a team to make decisions, creating psychological safety for them to develop, test and learn at speed.
• Work closely with the business to set Finance platform strategy, priorities, manage dependencies and maintain alignment with business outcomes.
• Establish and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver large scale changes and continuous improvement through the entire development lifecycle, measuring the impact on both user experience and business outcomes.
• Accountable for in-life platform performance, defining and reporting on the success.
• Provide expertise and team leadership in managing end-user support; creating robust business processes and system documentation; diagnosing and fixing system issues; managing UAT; and ensuring Audit compliance of the platform.
• Set and align team priorities with overall Digital, IT and Business Strategy and OKRs.
• Build partnerships with Platform Partners (i.e. Oracle) ensuring a two-way learning process, driving optimal value from those relationships.
• Keep up to date with emerging finance technologies and market trends, feeding these back into the team and business.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience within a similar Finance Platform Lead position.
• Significant experience and results in building and coaching high-performing, collaborative and fulfilled teams.
• Experience with Oracle Systems, Modules, including Finance, P2P, and Workflow.
• Proficient in providing support and analysis for Oracle EBS R12; preferably familiar with using a call logging system.
• Technical understanding of Oracle Databases and development tools.
• Familiar with UAT processes.
• Previous successful delivery and measurement of innovation and continuous improvements across Platforms / Products.
• Track record of managing complex technology projects from design to build, test, implementation and measurement.
• Has built strong relationships with third-party SaaS suppliers creating and driving a collaborative, high performance results.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of the business and team members.
• Ability to understand and use data to drive decisions and prove or disprove hypotheses.
• Understanding of complex business problems to apply technology and the "art of the possible" to solving these problems for the business and their customers.
• Proven ability to respond to and prioritise changing demands effectively.
• Strong business instinct and judgement, with a desire to challenge the status quo.

Salary (Rate): 70,000

City: Bristol

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: fixed-term

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT