Senior Systems Engineer, Finance Technology

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer to provide technology support in our transition to Cloud ERP and EPM systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in systems engineering, data conversions, and ERP migrations. This role involves technical partnership across business, technology teams and vendor partners to drive seamless transition, manage data migrations and system configurations including resolving technical issues as part of the process. This role is expected to have deep functional expertise in finance functions and work in close collaboration with business stakeholders to ensure target systems and associated processes meet their needs for accounting, planning, budgeting and forecasting in a cloud environment.This role will continue to support existing Finance applications until the full transition to the new cloud solution is complete.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification
• 7+ years of progressive professional experience in information technology application development and support including: 
  • 5 + years of hands-on experience with engineering solutions within PeopleSoft and/or Hyperion.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience managing ERP modules like General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets acting as a functional SME.
• Deep knowledge of financial processes and performance management.
• Experience with writing queries to extract data and prepare migration content.
• Solid understanding of ETL and data migration techniques.
• Experience with cloud environments like OCI, AWS etc. 
• Strong knowledge of networking, identity access management (SSO, SAML, LDAP) and security best practices.
• Proficient in scripting, automation tools and CI/CD frameworks.
• Ability to listen and understand business requirements, ask questions and translate the requirements into design documents.
• Ability to elicit, organize and document detailed and comprehensive functional system configuration requirements.
• Experience developing test plans, test scripts, and managing unit, system, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues in ERP and EPM and follow through to resolution.
• Ability to work independently, identifying and driving required tasks to completion in a timely manner.
• Proven ability to support all aspects of large, complex applications with multiple stakeholders.
• Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple support request while working on time sensitive projects and upgrades.
• Experience in waterfall and/or agile software methodologies.
• Vendor management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years’ domain experience relevant to supported business function; industry and competitive landscape knowledge.
• Understanding of financial and accounting processes including cyclical events like month end close, quarter close etc.
• Understanding of financial budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), and Oracle Security Console.
• Experience with change management, and enterprise architecture frameworks
• Technology leadership experience in a sourced or internally managed environment.
• Experience in agile software methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Experience with SOX processes and IT General Controls.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate future integration platform opportunities.

Core Work Activities

• Serve as technical lead for systems engineering aspects of data conversion and ongoing support as part of the journey to cloud 
• Serve as subject matter expert for finance’s use of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Contract Management, Owner Franchise Billing, Programs and Services.
• Lead technical design, development, configuration, deployment and support of Cloud ERP and EPM solutions.
• Coordinate data extraction and transformation processes from PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud ERP.
• Design and implement transformation scripts/processes for cleansing, formatting, and enriching data.
• Build data load templates and work with Oracle’s FBDI, ADFDI and Web Services for data import.
• Support validation efforts for comparing legacy data to converted Oracle Cloud records and generate reconciliation reports.
• Assist with multiple conversions cycles for mock and production loads, troubleshoot and resolve data-related errors.
• Manage a