Enterprise Applications Analyst, Sr. Oracle Fusion PPM

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Summary

The Sr. Business Analyst (Oracle Fusion Applications – Project and Contracts) will align business units (BU) with the Digital Business Team (DBT) to achieve both BU-specific and enterprise-wide objectives. They will drive AV’s Digital Transformation by collaborating with partners to set strategic directions and act as a BU expert, showcasing digital possibilities. The role involves understanding client requirements, mapping them to Oracle PPM Cloud, Oracle Project-Driven Supply Chain, and Contract Management functions, identifying process improvements, and developing future workflows. Experience in Oracle ERP Cloud, EBS implementation, and Oracle Project-Driven Supply Chain is required.

Position Responsibilities

• Partners with business units and ensures every business decision is seen from the lens of our customer. 
  • Collaborates with partner business units to reimagine how we can deliver the best processes possible using people, process, data, and technology
  • Conduct research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.
  • Meet with management, decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations.
  • requirements and systems goals and identify and resolve Enterprise Application systems issues.
  • Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems for enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow.
  • Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems.
  • Collaborate in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new applications, and enhancements to existing Enterprise applications.
  • Pursues using Oracle Fusion existing and on-going standard processes to minimize customization yet weighing against AV DOD needs and best practice(s).

• Acts as the subject matter expert (SME) for designated partner business units 
  • Attends designated partner BU meetings and shadows Team Members 
  • Explains a-day-in-the-life for various roles within partner BU. Gains significant knowledge in subject matters pertaining to both technology and the business 
  • Serves as a “trusted advisor” to the BU and functions as a key point of contact for BU & DBT business stakeholders 
  • In conjunction with BU leadership establishes and maintains a three-year business and DBT solution road map to improve strategic planning 
  • Utilizes business analysis techniques and business cases to define high-level product features and desired service levels for existing and emerging IT offerings 
  • Develops a deep knowledge of the business partner’s BU and builds positive relationship development, both horizontally and vertically
  • Identify business requirements and map them to the Oracle Application functionality.
  • Identify functionality gaps and develop solutions to them.
  • Configure the Oracle Applications to meet client requirements and document application set-ups.

• Defines business requirements for designated business units 
  • Create business requirement documents for reports, interfaces, data conversions, and application extensions.
  • Collaborate with project team members developing reports, interfaces, data conversion programs, and application extensions.
  • Define testing scenarios and develop corresponding test scripts.
  • Assist clients in executing test scripts.
  • Develop end-user documentation and training materials.
  • Conduct end-user training sessions.
  • Communicates with business leadership to evaluate joint initiatives and proposals to see how they align with established roadmaps and business and enterprise priorities 
  • Demonstrates system (e.g. Oracle Fusion PPM.) capability to solve business problems  
  • Anticipates bottlenecks and provides escalation management 
  • Analyzes end-to-end, moderate to high complexity business processes in one or more business functional areas

• Collaborates with peers and project managers to balance BU and enterprise level optimization
  • Transfers knowledge on proposed solution and BU needs to leadership and peers 
  • Collaborates with peers on similar workflows/terminology to make sure there is a common process across departments (where applicable) and to ensure technology strategy, down to functional requirements, work(s) well for every aspect of the business 
  • Manages enhancement requests post implementation on an established and agreed upon release schedule 
  • Monitors reported production iss