Functional Consultant - Finance

at  Ricoh

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Ricoh are currently recruiting for a Functional Consultant - Finance based in Watford.
Ricoh transforms organisations, using innovative technologies and services enabling you as an individual to work smarter. This is what we call “empowering digital workplaces”.
In fact the entire Ricoh workforce enjoys our pioneering and innovative ways of working. We like to call it: imagine. change., it’s the ethos of our brand and how we drive positive change for ourselves and others. Our teams are embracing change, fostering new ways of working and we have never been more resolute in our mission - “you work for us, and we`ll work for you”.

SUMMARY:

This role is based in the Finance & Leasing workstream of the IT Solution Design team and we are looking for someone with broad Oracle Financials experience who is able to work on projects that could impact any of the financial modules.
The main responsibilities of the role will be leading the solution design and implementation of key IT projects, coordinating with our partner teams on configuration, testing and training, and being a key IT point of contact for Ricoh finance teams.

The Solution Design team’s primary focus is leading the analysis, design, and oversight of the implementation and deployment of key IT projects in any of the legacy Oracle eBusiness system, cloud and other financial applications.
The Functional Consultant is a hybrid role of functional and technical skills, and will assist in expanding and refining system requirements, design and implementation of system changes to support process improvements, and providing information to support key decisions and recommendations to executive management on current and future business area processes and policies.
The Functional Consultant should be expected to take ownership of specific projects within the finance area of the business, managing communications and co-ordination with other internal teams and third party partners to deliver to the project timelines. For example, understanding the business requirements from our Ricoh Europe subsidiary companies, and documenting and communicating them to our third party implementation partners who are responsible for performing the system configuration.
The Functional Consultant will be expected to become a technical and functional Subject Matter Expert on both our legacy eBusiness & Cloud solution, who can use their background of understanding of finance processes to provide insights and recommendations into continuous improvements to our existing systems and processes, and to manage the design, implementation and testing of enhancements to ensure financial compliance.
The Functional Consultant is highly process and system driven, with change management knowledge and business analysis skills.

What you will be doing

• The Functional Consultant will be expected to take ownership for the Financial impacts of the projects they are aligned to – they could be solely in the Financials area or they could be E2E, cross workstream projects ensuring that project objectives for design, implementation, data migration and testing are met.
• Communicate with senior management (e.g. Operating Company CFOs) to understand system and process requirements and challenges, and then work together with our technical implementation partner, to identify the optimal system and process solution to these business requirements.
• Work as part of a cross workstream scrum team, the teams will be made up of SME’s from each workstream who can deliver solution design, functional design, build, testing approach, operational transition, post go live support
• The Functional Consultant should own the documentation of system configuration, design and processes for their project areas. They should also ensure that training documentation is accurate and up to date. Lead internal up-skilling sessions with our IT Application Support and Shared Service Centre teams to ensure that they understand new functionality and are able to respond to support tickets from the business.
• Ownership for the documentation of any data migration processes, and monitoring and reviewing of the data migration team to ensure that they are following the processes, and to assist in resolving any issues that arise.
• With the highest attention to detail, supports testing and implementing application changes to achieve gathered business realisations through optimal end-to-end processes with controlled risk.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities with systems and processes, document and obtain senior management approval for the changes (VP/ Divisional Head levels), and co-ordinate with our partner teams to deliver them.