Principal Analyst - Oracle

8901 - Corp Office West Crk - 12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, Richmond, Virginia, 23238

CarMax, the way your career should be! 

About this job

At CarMax, we are industry disruptors. At the heart of our innovation is new digital products. Working on many different aspects of the customer experience, our Senior Engineers research and discover new opportunities and shape products to fulfill them. From inception to completion, you will develop tools and technology, learning quickly from our spirit of experimentation. You will have a direct impact on improving the performance of our business and ensuring customers can buy the vehicles they want in a way that is right for them!

What you will do – Essential Responsibilities

• Take a lead role in implementing our new Cloud based Financial solutions and specifically by managing business requirements and leading the functional design, prototyping and process design stages of our Cloud ERP implementation. Including partnering with our SI partner, other technology teams and internal business SMEs.
• Work with fellow CarMax associates to understand the real-life process and data challenges and discover what they need to create a seamless customer experience and an efficient associate experience.
• Collaborate with colleagues in product design, product management, systems architecture, and various operational and technical teams to develop solutions and bring great ideas to life.
• Market your innovative ideas internally and evolve them according to feedback and critique within an agile environment.
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practice to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer and associate experience is the best it can be.
• Leads analysis for conversion of existing legacy data into Oracle by analyzing data extracts and data mapping
• Effectively leads change, working with management and users to ensure involvement, participation, and encouragement of others' ideas and contributions for effective teamwork and successful project execution
• Work hands-on to understand, validate, build, test, train, and support our users as you help simplify business processes across various platforms
• Work with offshore/onsite technical teams to develop solutions based on the business requirements
• Responsible for application configuration, Functional specs, and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents
• Conduct business interviews in solidifying business system requirements. Collaborate with Application team members, Product owners to prioritize and create transparency for critical initiatives required to scale the company.
• Ensure the business requirements are broken down into technical user stories for development
• Setup/configure Oracle Finance Cloud suite according to the approved business requirements.

Purpose of the role

It takes a passion for technology to develop ground-breaking products. Working collaboratively and creatively as part of a close-knit delivery team, you will be part of the development process from end to end: consulting users, carrying out experiments, tackling complex business problems and implementing new solutions. You can balance customer needs with business goals and know how to deliver technical solutions that enhance business value. Creative, curious, and highly analytical, you never stop learning and thrive on constant change in the digital marketplace.

Experience in the following required:

• Demonstrated expertise in the Implementation, Upgrade, Enhancement, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Support of Oracle Fusion Cloud
• 10+ years’ experience in architecting and designing finance solutions in Oracle Enterprise applications
• 5+ years of Finance functional experience in Oracle eBusiness Suite and Oracle Cloud ERP Financial modules GL, AR, AP, PO, FA, Cash Management, Tax, Project Accounting (Billing/Costing), Inventory Costing with at least two cloud full lifecycle implementations
• Hands on Experience in end-to-end business processes (Record to Report, Order to Cash, Invoice to Report and Procure to Pay)
• Experience in Oracle Cloud OTBI, BI Publisher, Financial Reporting tools
• Experience in Forecasting, Planning & Analysis (FP&A) applications
• Ability to articulate complex systems and technical topics in a clear, concise manner
• Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities
• Develop, design, test and validate configuration/customizing related to new business processes developed as part of the business process improvement initiatives either as production support initiatives or in new projects.
• Work with the ERP security team on resolving authorization issues and provide recommendations on optimal secur