In this role, you will collaborate closely with one of our esteemed clients - a globally recognized leader in their industry, distinguished by their commitment to excellence, innovation, and delivering exceptional value. As a trusted IT consulting partner, Dautom is supporting their strategic initiatives by connecting them with exceptional talent to drive business growth and transformation.
About the Role :
We are seeking an experienced Oracle Fusion Finance Functional Consultant to lead day-to-day application support for a Qatar-based customer. The consultant will serve as the primary Finance functional contact, manage the ticket queue, guide a small support team, coordinate with business users, and deliver minor enhancements and continuous improvements while ensuring service quality and SLA adherence.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
Application Support and Service Delivery
- Provide L1.5/L2/L3 functional support for incidents, service requests, problems, and production defects.
- Monitor ticket queues, prioritize work by severity and business impact, and drive resolution within agreed SLAs.
- Perform issue analysis, reproduce defects, document resolutions, and reduce repeat incidents through root-cause and preventive actions.
- Coordinate with Oracle Support and internal technical teams for product defects or complex issues.
- Prepare operational metrics, ageing analysis, risks, dependencies, and weekly/monthly service reports. Functional Ownership
Functional Ownership
- Own functional support across General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Expenses, Tax, and related financial processes.
- Apply strong knowledge of Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, period close, reconciliation, accounting, and cross-module flows.
- Work with technical teams on reports, interfaces, data fixes, integrations, and root-cause analysis.
Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor a small team of functional and technical support consultants.
- Allocate/Work on tickets and enhancement tasks, review progress, remove blockers, and ensure quality of deliverables.
- Conduct knowledge-transfer sessions, maintain support documentation, and improve team readiness and backup coverage.
- Coordinate effectively across onsite and offshore teams.
Minor Enhancements and Continuous Improvement
- Engage business users to clarify requirements and assess solution options for small enhancements.
- Prepare functional specifications, configuration documents, test scenarios, and deployment inputs.
- Coordinate build, testing, release, and post-deployment validation.
- Assess Oracle quarterly updates, identify relevant impacts, and coordinate regression testing.
Customer and Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary functional point of contact for Finance stakeholders and service management teams.
- Participate in operational reviews, governance meetings, and prioritization discussions.
- Communicate incidents, risks, workarounds, and recovery plans clearly to customer stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, ticket reduction, and improved user experience.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS :
- 10+ years of Oracle ERP functional consulting experience, with strong experience in application support or AMS engagements. Confidential - For recruitment and profile sourcing
- Hands-on Oracle Fusion Finance experience, including production support and minor enhancements.
- Strong functional expertise in at least four Finance areas such as GL, AP, AR, FA, CM, Expenses, Tax, or Project Financial Management.
- Demonstrated experience leading a small support team and managing customer-facing responsibilities.
- Good understanding of incident, problem, change, release, and SLA management practices.
- Experience with a ticketing platform such as ServiceNow, Jira, or Remedy.
- Excellent analytical, documentation, stakeholder-management, and English communication skills.
- Ability to work independently in an onsite customer environment and collaborate with distributed teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :
- Oracle Fusion Finance certification.
- Prior GCC or Middle East customer experience.
- ITIL Foundation certification or practical ITIL service-management experience.
- Exposure to OTBI, BI Publisher, FBDI, OIC, REST/SOAP integrations, and Oracle Support SR management.
- Arabic communication skills are an advantage but not mandatory.