Oracle ERP Assistant Manager

KPMG International Cooperative; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in London is seeking an IT management consultant to join their Powered Apps team. You will leverage your expertise in Oracle Cloud ERP to deliver transformative solutions for clients, employing your knowledge of finance and procurement. Responsibilities include communicating solutions, defining procurement strategies, and preparing configuration documents. The firm offers flexible working conditions across 20 sites in the UK.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Part-time options

Office work and remote working

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Understanding of finance or procurement issues leading to transformation programmes.
• Experience in various industry sectors is preferred.
• Ability to run client workshops for design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Communicate solutions for project accounting using Oracle Cloud ERP.
• Define solutions leveraging best practices.
• Prepare design documents including functional specifications.

Skills

Knowledge of Oracle Cloud ERP

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

Documentation skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Oracle Cloud ERP

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions for project accounting in response to complex client problems based on Oracle Cloud ERP technology.
• Defining either Finance or Procurement solution leveraging leading practice solutions to support the business requirements.
• System design and delivery, including integration management, data migration strategy.
• Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.
• Building constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries or cultures.
• Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm.

Benefits and Education

Supports others to make brave decisions. With 20 sites across the UK we can facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours and part‑time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

Educated to degree level or equivalent.

Qualifications

• An understanding of the key finance or procurement business issues/drivers that result in clients pursuing transformation programmes.
• Experience of multiple industry sectors (e.g. Media, Services, Retail, Insurance, Local Government etc.) is preferred.
• Experience of working effectively with senior client representatives.
• Knowledge of how Oracle Cloud ERP enabled end‑to‑end business process across at least one of the following areas: Source to Pay, Project to Result, Acquire to Retire, Order to Cash, Record to Report.
• 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).

• 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 e.g. Personas, user journeys and how this can be used to augment a solution.

Additional Skills

• 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‑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.

Location

Base Location: London plus network of 20 offices nationally: https://www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations