About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Oracle Cloud PPM Functional Lead based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead Oracle Cloud PPM across the complete implementation lifecycle, including discovery, requirements, design, configuration, testing, deployment, go-live, and post-production support.
- Facilitate requirements-gathering and solution-design workshops with finance, project controls, operations, and other client stakeholders.
- Configure Oracle Cloud PPM capabilities including Project Foundation, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Contracts, Project Control, Project Management, and Grants Management as applicable.
- Design functional solutions for engineering and construction scenarios such as capital projects, cost-plus and fixed-price contracts, retainage, change orders, percentage-of-completion revenue recognition, and project cost accounting.
- Produce key functional deliverables, including future-state process designs, configuration workbooks, functional design documents, and test scripts.
- Define integration and data-conversion requirements and collaborate with technical teams on interfaces, reports, extensions, OTBI, BI Publisher, FBDI, and REST APIs.
- Ensure effective integration between PPM and Oracle Cloud Financials, Procurement, HCM, and other relevant enterprise systems.
- Plan and execute system integration testing and user acceptance testing, troubleshoot defects, and coordinate timely resolution.
- Develop training materials and deliver end-user and train-the-trainer sessions to support successful adoption.
- Support cutover, go-live, hypercare, and knowledge transfer to client support teams.
- Advise stakeholders on Oracle Cloud best practices, quarterly updates, new functionality, and opportunities to improve business processes.
- Collaborate effectively with technical, functional, client, and offshore teams throughout the engagement.
Requirements
- At least one complete Oracle Cloud PPM implementation delivered from solution design through go-live and hypercare.
- Hands-on experience implementing the latest Oracle Cloud PPM release in a live production environment.
- 5+ years of Oracle ERP experience, including at least 3 years focused on Oracle Cloud PPM.
- Strong functional expertise in Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Contracts, and Project Control.
- Solid understanding of project accounting principles, including cost capture, burdening, revenue recognition, billing methods, and project financial management.
- Experience with Oracle Cloud configuration tools such as Functional Setup Manager (FSM) and setup data import/export.
- Familiarity with integration points between Oracle Cloud PPM, Financials, Procurement, and HCM.
- Demonstrated ability to lead client workshops, gather requirements, translate business needs into functional solutions, and produce clear documentation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex functionality to both technical and business audiences.
- Confident client-facing presence and the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and prioritization skills.
- Self-directed and comfortable managing deliverables in a fully remote environment.
- Collaborative approach and experience working with cross-functional and offshore teams.
- Experience with two or more full-cycle Oracle Cloud PPM implementations is preferred.
- Engineering, construction, architecture-engineering-construction, or related industry experience is highly desirable.
- Current Oracle Cloud PPM or equivalent Oracle certification is preferred.
- Experience integrating Oracle Primavera P6 or Unifier with Oracle Cloud PPM is a plus.
- Experience with Grants Management, Project Asset Management, or Project Execution Management is advantageous.
- Consulting or systems-integrator experience and familiarity with migrations from legacy platforms such as Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Deltek, or Viewpoint are additional advantages.
Conditions
- Remote position available within U.S. time zones.
- Occasional overlap with client core business hours expected.
- Occasional client-site travel may be requested but is not required.
- Contract-to-hire opportunity may be available based on performance and client requirements.
- Opportunity to work on a major Oracle Cloud ERP transformation within the engineering and construction sector.
- Exposure to complex enterprise processes spanning project management, financials, procurement, contracts, and operations.
- Collaborative consulting environment with opportunities.