Chapter Lead - Corporate (People Hub, Finance and Corporate)

The Riverside Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading not-for-profit organization in Liverpool seeks a Chapter Lead - Corporate. This key role involves overseeing Digital Products in the Corporate domain, ensuring high performance and alignment with business strategies. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Oracle HCM, finance, and EPM technologies. This position offers a hybrid working pattern alongside competitive salary and benefits, perfect for those passionate about delivering impactful digital solutions.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Investment in personal development

Wide range of benefits

Qualifications

• Proven Oracle Cloud knowledge across HCM, Financials or EPM.
• Experience managing tier 1 ERP systems such as Oracle.
• Completion of at least two full Oracle Cloud HCM or Financials implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Agile delivery of Corporate products.
• Manage partners and customers across the Riverside Group.
• Ensure strategic alignment of Digital Products with the Corporate Plan.

Skills

Oracle HCM

Data migration

Integration

Test and release strategies

PL/SQL

Java technologies

Education

Relevant IT qualifications, equivalent to Bachelor's Degree or above

Job description

Chapter Lead - Corporate (People Hub, Finance and Corporate)

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Job Description

Job Title: Chapter Lead - Corporate (People Hub, Finance & Corporate)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £89,250.00
Working Hours: 35
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday Hybrid
Location: Speke, Liverpool

If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don'tmeet all the essential criteria on the job description.

Please note that whilst we will accept applications based on any form of valid legal permission to work in the UK, we will be surrendering the Riverside Sponsorship licence, so for the avoidance of doubt, we are unable to apply for any further sponsorships whether on behalf of existing colleagues or candidates.

About you

We are looking for someone with Oracle experience in HCM, Finance and EPM along with knowledge of data migration, integration, test and release strategies in relation to Oracle

Why Riverside?

One Housing Group is a part of Riverside. At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you’ll enjoy:

• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits

Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:

We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.

Riverside is a Disability Confident Employer and operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicant who declares they have a disability. If the applicant meets the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.

This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteedinterview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrateyou meet the minimum criteriafor the role you will be guaranteed an interview.

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to be considered

Job purpose

Riverside Digital and Technology embed DevOps as a key method of its delivery approach and principles, the value that it delivers relies on maintaining a certain cadence, so the role holder will make sure that all members of their DevOps Chapter work well together to deliver that value.

Reporting directly to the Head of Digital Products, own and be accountable for all Digital Products in the Corporate domain, including Oracle HCM and Oracle ERP. Keep on top of emerging trends and technologies. Including Oracle. Leverage all technologies to add most value to the group through a DevOps focused environment. Lead the end-to-end Agile delivery of Service and Change across Corporate products, ensuring delivery within approved budget, timescales, quality and compliance standards, managing a product backlog with continuous delivery. Manage partners, customers and suppliers across the Riverside Group.

Maintain expertise in emerging technologies and trends, particularly around Oracle HCM and ERP / EPM

Ensure strategic alignment of the Digital Products within the Corporate Domain with the Corporate Plan and the Digital and Technology strategy

Be accountable for the strategy and roadmap for Digital Products within the Corporate domain, leveraging technologies and methodologies to enable relevant business plans

Develop the DevOps squad across the corporate domain, including Oracle. Ensure functional and technical support within Digital and Technology, and develop appropriate business operating models in collaboration with CIO functions and each customer area

Develop, lead and manage a high performing, cost effective and scalable provision of internal and external resource to meet business demands and realise value across Digital Products in the Corporate domain

Be proactive in understanding and leveraging broader product, cyber and infrastructure technologies and methodologies

Influence key decisions at a senior level including Capital spend for large future technology investments made by the Group, ensuring technical information is successfully presented and understood by non-technical audiences, including Executive Directors

Be accountable for Service performance and change delivery across Digital Products within the Corporate domain

Be accountable for the planning and provision of Oracle environments for all support, enhancement and change activities, managed through the Oracle console.

Approve order of magnitude estimates of both cost and resource at Discovery phase, based on high-level scope and requirements. Support project teams in refining those estimates through subsequent phases of the delivery methodology

Approve non-functional requirements and be accountable for the reporting of progress, risks and issues across all design, development, test, deployment and warranty phases

Approve technical design reviews and be accountable for all configuration and customisation, ensuring it follows Oracle and wider industry best practice, and ensuring they are designed, developed, tested, deployed and maintained to meet requirements

Demonstrate expertise in advanced programming concepts across PL/SQL and Java technologies

Be accountable for configuration and customisation in line with Oracle best practices across technologies and methodologies

Approve testing activities as product owner, ensuring QA standards are met across performance and volume testing, systems integration testing and user acceptance testing

Manage key risks and issues across assigned modules and business areas, establishing risk mitigation or acceptance by accountable stakeholders

Provide service and support including service requests, incidents, problem and change, proactively managing performance, availability and resilience

Be accountable for the quarterly releases, identifying any technology or methodology changes that will impact product or business, and champion the approval, prioritisation and adoption of enhancements

Be accountable for the relationship with Oracle as a vendor through proactive relationships with service, account management and customer success teams, and manage Oracle partners and System Integrators across development and support activities

Be accountable for the Audit and compliance of the system, ensuring Oracle good practice is met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and principles across logical access and change management

Be accountable for all information security, including data protection, for all Corporate Products, in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and statutory requirements.

Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities, undertake other duties when required and participate in an on-call rota if required

Person specification

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Experience of developing high-performing teams

Broad knowledge of technologies and methodologies across Digital Products, Cyber and Infrastructure

Experience of managing tier 1 ERP systems such as Oracle

Relevant IT qualifications, equivalent to Batchelors Degree or above

Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile and DevOps approaches and methodologies

Knowledge of Service methodologies and approaches

Proven Oracle Cloud knowledge across HCM, Financials or EPM

Knowledge of data migration, integration, test and release strategies in relation to Oracle

Knowledge of the Oracle cloud quarterly release cycle and key activities

Proven experience of working with Oracle as a vendor, and with an implementation partner

Completion of at least two full Oracle Cloud HCM or Financials implementation

Oracle Fusion HCM or Financials certification

Experience supporting HR functions in Oracle HCM across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud implementations, including key HR concepts, functional guidance and technical build for at least 3 of HCM, Payroll, Absence, Expenses, Learning, Performance, Recruitment

Experience supporting accounting functions in Oracle ERP across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud implementations, including key Financial concepts, functional guidance and technical build for at least 3 of GL, Payables, Receivables, Purchasing, Procurement, Expenses, Asset, Collections, and Cash Management)

Experience of developing Oracle OTBI dashboards and reports

Experience with Oracle Cloud Data Conversion

Experience with Oracle Analytics Cloud

Experience of Oracle Cloud delivered Web Services (SOAP & REST)

Experience with Oracle Identity Manager, MS Active Directory, and Identity Propagation

Experience with Oracle Cloud SaaS Security

About Us

Riverside is one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit social housing and regeneration organisations, owning or managing around 75,000 homes from Irvine to Kent. We are a leading provider of supported housing services, particularly for those affected by homelessness, and our track record of transforming lives and revitalising neighbourhoods dates back over 90 years. We have plans to build over 15,000 affordable homes over the next decade.

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