Oracle ERP Manager Financial Services

at  KPMG

JOB DETAILS

Location: London, Manchester
Capability: Consulting
Experience Level: Manager
Type: Full Time
Service Line: Corp Svs& People
Contract type: Permanent

JOB DESCRIPTION

Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions driven by a pre-defined back-office function based on leading practices and KPMG’s six-layer Target Operating Model. The target operating model comprises of service delivery model, people, process, technology, data & insight and governance & controls. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities and insight into what makes a world class corporate services function with the latest in ERP technology provided by the leading SaaS ERP vendors such as Oracle.
The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP based transformation programmes based on KPMG Powered Enterprise. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g., Finance, HR, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa) to lead and deliver client programmes, to support pre-sales activities and to develop improvement and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. KPMG are growing their Powered Apps team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking IT management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Experience of working with financial service clients
• An understanding of the key finance and procurement business issues/drivers that result in clients pursuing transformation programmes.
• Experience of working effectively with senior client representatives.
• Experience in delivering end-to-end business processes across multiple functional areas including Oracle Accounting Hub, Oracle Financial Consolidation Close and accounting foundation
• Experience of multiple Oracle Cloud ERP full implementation project lifecycles, preferably from scoping and planning through to post go live support, at least as a subject matter expert.
• A specialist knowledge of the end to end Oracle Cloud ERP design in at least one of the following process areas:
• Source to Pay (S2P): Sourcing, Procurement, Expenses, Payables and Cash management modules. Setting up complex approval rules and subledger accounting
• Project to Result (P2R): Project costing and accounting, capitalisation of fixed assets, project billing and the integration of projects subledger to other modules
• Acquire to Retire (A2R): Capitalisation of fixed assets, end to end asset lifecycle, leased assets management and integrations with EAM platforms.
• Order to Cash (O2C): Accounts Receivable, Cash Application, Collections modules and interaction with Supply Chain Management modules such as Order Management
• Record to Report (R2R): General Ledger, Intercompany workbench, Chart of Accounts, Enterprise Structures and integrations with Oracle EPM (particularly ARCS and FCCS), Accounting Hub
• An understanding of the functional, application and technical architectural elements of an Oracle Cloud ERP programme.
• Should be able to independently run client workshops to drive design decisions and system demonstration in both an in person and remote delivery mode.
• Prepare configuration & other design documents (Functional specification, Solution design document).
• Experience of Financial concepts (required for Oracle Cloud ERP Implementation projects).
• Experience to drive the technical deliverables such as Data migration principles & Integration Design (mainly from functional perspective).
• Experience of operating and implementing in a cloud environment and understanding the impacts of implementing and operating on the cloud versus on premise.
• Understanding of an Oracle Cloud delivery lifecycle using TCM or equivalent delivery method.
• An appreciation of the influence of user experience-based design eg Personas, user journeys and how this can be used to augment a solution.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

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• Excellent documentation, reporting and presentation skills in both a virtual and in person mode.
• Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to provide clarity to complex issues, and synthesise large amounts of information.
• Experience producing project deliverables (business requirements, functional specs, configuration document, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices etc.).
• Highly proficient Microsoft Office skills particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, team building, organisational and motivational skills.
• Fast learner with an ability to get up-to-speed in a short space of time.
• Ability to convey ideas and recommendations in a clear, compelling and succinct way in written and verbal communications.
• Good attention to detail and an ability to analyse and use data in decision making.
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills with ability to balance competing priorities.
• Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions driven by a pre-defined back-office function based on leading practices and KPMG’s six-layer Target Operating Model. The target operating model comprises of service delivery model, people, process, technology, data & insight and governance & controls. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities and insight into what makes a world class corporate services function with the latest in ERP technology provided by the leading SaaS ERP vendors such as Oracle.
  The Enterprise Solutions teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP based transformation programmes based on KPMG Powered Enterprise. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, HR, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa) to lead and deliver client programmes, to support pre-sales activities and to develop improvement and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. KPMG are growing their Enterprise Solutions team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking IT management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

THE ROLE

• Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions for project accounting in response to complex client problems based on Oracle Cloud ERP technology.
• Supporting business development and project delivery activities across clients from multiple industries.
• Defining an overall Finance & Procurement solution leveraging leading practice solutions to support the business requirements.
• System design and delivery, including release management, integration management, data migration strategy and management.

THE ROLE

• Supporting business development and project delivery activities across clients from multiple industries.
• Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions for Oracle Cloud technology in response to complex client problems based on Oracle Cloud ERP/HCM technology.
• Defining/supporting an overall technical solution leveraging leading practice solutions to support the business/technical requirements across integrations, data migration, reporting environments and/or security.
• System design and delivery, including release management, integration management, data migration strategy and technical project management.
• Leading a team of resources to deliver a technical project workstream e.g., integration or data migration on larger engagements or leading the entire technical delivery team on smaller engagements with technical oversight support provided.