REQUIREMENTS:

• At least three years relevant experience is required.
• Relevant third level degree or equivalent is required.
• Strong functional knowledge of one of more modules of Oracle Financials eBusiness Suite (GL, AP, AR, PA, PO, FA, OTL, iProc, etc.) is required.
• Knowledge and/or experience of one of Oracle Hyperion or Kofax / Markview would be a strong advantage.
• Relevant application certification (for example, Oracle) would be an advantage.
• Good communication skills and the ability to influence key stakeholders others effectively is desirable.
• Experience in dealing with a variety of business owners across a large organisation would be an advantage.
• Ability to work as part of a team or individually as required.
• Ability to create and develop good working relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Experience with identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas and implementing solutions.
• Good analytical skills and the ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions.
• Ability to set own high standards of performance and delivering desired results

• Overseeing and supporting the IT operational activities to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the IT financial system applications.
• Provide functional support for the financial applications and when required, assist with the support of the day to day operations and the resolution of critical or high priority incidents.
• Work along with technical outsourced application development ( AD ) and application maintenance ( AM ) teams to address incident resolution and change requests.
• Liaise with other IT operations teams and business stakeholders to triage and resolve high priority incidents.
• Support business stakeholders in translating their requirements into functional requirements, ensuring these requirements are understood, documented and agreed by Applications team.
• Assist with the delivery of changes to applications including the analysis, design, development, testing and transition of changes through a path to production deployment.
• All change is governed by change management board and candidate would support and contribute to this board engaging with the business owners as well as IT Build & Delivery teams.
• Build up a deep understanding of key business processes.
• Work with business and change teams in developing, documenting, and implementing procedures that support, maintain and enhance application products and services.
• Maintain financial systems and ensure compliance with internal and external audits.
• Participate in IT project teams as necessary engaging closely with the IT Build & Delivery teams, Project managers and external resources/service providers as required.
• Support testing and business readiness.
• Provide out-of-hours cover as part of the on call team, 1 week in 4 rot