Oracle Fusion Purchasing, Finance & Inventory Functional Lead

Novalink Solutions LLC•Lawrenceville, GA

About The Position

This role will be part of the IT team responsible for maintaining, supporting, and optimizing the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP applications, with a primary focus on Finance, Purchasing, and Inventory modules. The role will serve as a strategic liaison between business users, the implementation vendor, Oracle, and technical teams to ensure business processes are effectively supported and aligned with system capabilities. We are seeking a candidate with deep functional expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud Finance, along with strong working knowledge of Purchasing and Inventory, and hands-on experience with ERP implementations and long-term operational support. The ideal candidate is a collaborative and customerfocused team player with strong leadership and communication skills, capable of managing both technical and operational activities while proactively partnering with business teams in a dynamic and evolving environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
7+ years of overall ERP implementation/ administration experience.
3+ years of experience as Finance Functional lead for Oracle Fusion Cloud with focused in Finance, Purchasing and Inventory.
Well-versed with configurations, custom fields and fast formulas used in Oracle Fusion Cloud, with a strong understanding of integration with other Fusion applications and third-party systems.
Experience in leading full projects involving Requirements, Design, Testing and Roll-out.
Comfortable with Oracle Fusion data dictionary and the relationship between various objects, to quickly understand requirements and design solutions.
Excellent collaborative and verbal/written communication skills.
Desire to teach and mentor other engineers with varying domains of expertise.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and configurations.
Extensive experience leading and supporting Oracle ERP solutions, with deep hands-on expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud Finance, Purchasing, and Inventory modules.
Expertise with the security roles and workflow setup in Oracle Fusion applications.
Combines strong business acumen/experience in the Finance/ HR/ Payroll areas and deep IT knowledge.
Demonstrated initiative to stay current on technology advancements.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills

Responsibilities

In-depth understanding of the Oracle Finance application configured for Gwinnett County in order to be able to partner with the Business SMEs to proactively establish the best use of the Oracle application suite.
Lead functional ownership and provide ongoing support for Oracle Fusion Cloud Finance, Purchasing, and Inventory modules, serving as a subject matter expert to guide business process design, configuration, and continuous optimization across Finance, Procurement, and Inventory.
Responsible for the configurations, fast formulas, custom fields, and streamlined performance of the Oracle Fusion cloud applications.
Review the impacts of the Oracle Fusion quarterly releases and other patch deployments and coordinate the needed testing with the business teams.
Lead the end-to-end testing of fixes/enhancements, including the creation of test plans and test scripts.
Design & create custom security roles to ensure they don't grant too many privileges. Conduct regular security audits to identify and fix vulnerabilities.
Proactively Monitor Oracle Fusion Cloud applications performance and architecture to ensure the system reliability, integrity and recoverability.
Work with internal IT staff, third-party vendors and Oracle to update and communicate environment maintenance schedules, refresh schedules, and outages.
Design and implement best practices to administer and improve the functionality, reliability and security of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.
Troubleshoot issues related to Oracle Fusion Cloud applications. Partner with internal IT teams such as Security, Network and Service Desk teams, and external vendor teams to proactively monitor, identify issues and drive them to resolution.
Write functional/ technical specifications needed for new integrations and custom peripheral applications that closely integrate with Oracle Fusion applications.
Document system requirements, process flows, policies and procedures.
Mentor and train the team members in managing Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.
Other responsibilities of an Oracle Fusion Functional Lead may include understanding and managing the technical configurations, in-depth understanding of the interfaces and reporting needs, and other duties as assigned.