About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting a Oracle – E-Business Suite Financial Management – Functional SME to join NATO – NCIA, at Mons, Belgium

Responsibilities

• Being responsible for assigned business applications and services
• Providing 2nd and 3rd line support to assigned business applications, by responding to service requests, investigating and resolving incidents and problems, communicating solutions or advice to customers and users on changes and improvements based on best business practices
• Contributing to gathering, analysis, setup, design and documentation of new requirements and change requests
• Developing and reviewing documentation such as requirements definitions, functional and technical design documents, systems specifications or other deliverables
• Providing time estimates for development and implementation of new requirements
• Ensures full lifecycle tests of requests for change before they are presented to user for user acceptance testing
• Active contribution to relevant projects or service operation across Service Lines where integration is required
• Participating / attending job-related conferences and training in order to keep knowledge and expertise up-to-date
• Providing briefings and presentations
• Performing other duties as may be required

Profile

• Minimum of 4 years current, detailed and relevant knowledge and experience
• Basic SQL and SQL*Plus knowledge
• Familiarity with configuration management / versioning procedures and tools
• Able to work under pressure, on own initiative and without constant supervision, to strict and tight deadlines.• A good team player and a good communicator
• Experience of working in a team that delivers a highly available service
• Competent in documenting work done
• English proficiency level: SLP 3333 according to STANAG 6001
• Relevant experience at a customer facing service desk and its associated tools and processes during a 24 months sustained period of performance

Desirable Requirement

• Recent experience of working in NATO
• Willing to work flexible working hours
• Requirements for all Oracle E-Business Suite related profiles

Essential Requirement

• Minimum of 4 years current, detailed and relevant knowledge of and experience with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 (or higher)
• Basic understanding of data model for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 (or higher)
• Working knowledge of Oracle Unified Method (OUM) and/or Oracle Application Implementation Methodology (AIM)
• Requirements for all Oracle E-Business Suite Functional related profiles
• Ability to handle issues of all E-Business Suite modules in area of responsibility including System Administrator from setup to functional reporting
• Understanding internal controls, including but not limited to user access, responsibilities, security rules, report groups, profile options
• Understanding flexfields configuration
• Workflow monitoring and troubleshooting
• Understanding standard open interfaces
• Understanding Approval Management Engine configuration
• Experience with writing detailed functional design documents based on new or changed business requirements
• Experience with the review of business procedures and functional setup
• Experience with making recommendations for changes, improvements etc. based on best business practices
• Experience with preparing, running and documenting unit tests, system tests and user acceptance tests
• Ability to work with System Administrator and Application Developer responsibilities
• Experience with WebADI
• Experience Oracle Alerts
• Experience with creating training material and providing training
• Basic understanding of Oracle Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)
• Basic understanding of Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK)
• Basic understanding of Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS)
• Basic understanding of Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI)
• Specific requirements for Oracle E-Business Suite Financial Management Functional SME
• Detailed knowledge of and experience with all Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 (or higher) Financials and Purchasing applications, including but not limited to:
• Excellent understanding of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management and Sub-Ledger Accounting
• Strong understanding, E-Business Tax, Purchasing, and Fixed Assets business flows and setups plus their implications at General Ledger level
• Excellent understanding of budget accounting (summary account, budgetary control configuration), encumbrance accounting, accrual accounting and experience of Public Sector accounting processes
• Ability to perform a range of Financials associated duties (reconciliation, consolidation, revaluation)
• Understanding month-end and year-end processes of predefined subledgers and General Ledger
• Understanding all aspects of Finance related reporting, including but not limited to identification of appropriate standard reports and the development of any additional reports required
• Thorough understanding of bank reconciliation process and use of electronic banking payment formats
• Knowledge of and experience with all different finance approval workflows (Accounts Payable, Purchasing, General Ledger)
• Having knowledge of Project Costing and Billing is desirable
• Understanding integration of Oracle Project Accounting (Billing/Costing) with Financials, Purchasing and Logistics
• Having knowledge of Supply Chain processes is desirable
• Must hold Security Clearance NATO Secret
• Fluent business English; knowledge of another NATO member-state language is an asset

Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU

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