Oracle Finance Platform Lead

Summary: The Oracle Finance Platform Lead will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the development and optimization of Finance Platforms, primarily Oracle EBS. This role involves managing the platform vision and ensuring alignment with business objectives while fostering a high-performing team. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to implement large-scale changes and continuous improvements. The role is offered on a fixed-term contract basis with a hybrid working model.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and grow a high performing team with the skills to deliver digital-enabled value through our current and future Finance platforms (primarily Oracle EBS).
• 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 (small change) through the entire development life cycle.
• Accountable for in-life platform performance, defining and reporting on 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 our overall Digital, IT and Business Strategy and OKRs.

Key Skills:

• 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 supplier creating and driving 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 dis-prove hypothesis.
• Understanding of complex business problems to apply technology and the "art of the possible" to solving these problems for the business and our customers.

Salary (Rate): £500

City: Bristol

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT