Oracle Cloud PPM lead Consultant

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Accelalpha is a rapidly growing consultancy delivering Oracle Cloud Solutions to global clients. Despite the challenges faced over the last few years, Accelalpha continued to grow rapidly providing stability for our employees and customers.

Accelalpha is proudly a Certified as a Great Place to Work and a Fortune 100 best workplace, and prides itself on a culture of support, diversity, and work life balance. Accelalpha provides employees with the opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies and access to rapid career advancement.

Accelalpha’s purpose is to help our clients solve critical business challenges through a unique approach to process improvement, solution design and project delivery. Our success is based on a proven implementation track record, industry leading domain expertise and unmatched talent in our delivery

Job Description

We are currently looking for an Oracle Projects & Portfolio Management (PPM) Lead to join our team to work on exciting projects.

Role and Responsibilities

Delivery

• Serve as the Oracle Cloud PPM Lead on projects through the full project life cycle: planning, design, configuration, build, testing, training, go-live and post-production support.
• Working closely with client teams to understand their needs and offer solutions and design. Be able to offer industry best practices and solution design to address client business needs. Collaborate with key stakeholders and partners.
• Participate or lead business meetings and collaborate alongside stakeholders to guarantee the appropriate insights to communicate to the development team. Conduct business needs analysis to streamline processes and guarantee that the solutions are aligned with the customer's objectives.
• Provide subject matter expertise and lead the Oracle Cloud Project Management workstream. Provide solutions to the clients based on best practices, accounting principles and rules for all PPM modules.
• Conduct workshops, manage and run CRPs, drive user testing and user training.
• Undertake or manage configurations to tailor solution to client needs.
• Map customer’s business process to Oracle Cloud PPM processes and migrate customer data from Legacy to Oracle Cloud Applications.
• Document Gaps, Issues and Solution Process Flows.
• Ensure that the Cloud PPM workstream is adhering to established project methodologies, standards, tools, processes and procedures.
• Be able to create functional specifications for the technical team.
• Design and build of reports to support the implementation.
• Ability to mentor junior/offshore resources on the project team.
• Lead and guide the client through their implementation of the solutions.
• Stick to the established project timelines by ensuring that the Cloud PPM workstream is meeting assigned deliverables.
• Constant self-update on Oracle products and offerings – attend conferences, webinars, cross-training on new applications.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience as an Oracle Cloud PPM Lead. Has previously successfully delivered full cycle implementations as a PPM Lead.
• Deep understanding of the PPM processes, PPM Reports (OTBI, analytics), integrations with other modules and tools.
• Hands-on experience within the Oracle Cloud PPM application including but not limited to Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Control, Grants Management and Project Resource Management.
• Strong understanding of other modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Expenses and OTL.
• Ability to be proactive and take initiative.
• Maintaining confidentiality of private data and information, in accordance with data security regulations and best practices.
• Problem solving skills - guiding and training others on the subject for a successful production deployment.
• Ability to travel as per project and organizational needs.

Soft Skills

• People skills; effective team player with strong communication (verbal & written) and active listening skills. Must be comfortable presenting to large and diverse audiences.
• Customer-first mindset. Skilled at anticipating customers' needs and the ability to build relationships that enable collaboration among all stakeholders.
• Drive for results; ability to turn a customer from good to great by translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong time and resource management skills along with organizational and analytical skills; ability to prioritize and comply with customer requests promptly.

Location: Anywhere in the UK; Should be flexible to travel to client locations.

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Accelalpha is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we make sure to comply with all laws and regulations that protect and enhance Diversity and Inclusion. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, nationality, religion, sexual/gender orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to build diverse and inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for all our employees across the globe.

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