Oracle Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Cloud Functional Consultant
• Act as the onsite Oracle PPM Cloud functional consultant and primary coordinator between customer stakeholders and offshore delivery teams.
• Conduct customer requirement gathering sessions, business process walkthroughs, fit-gap discussions, and solution clarification workshops.
• Capture and document business requirements, process flows, functional specifications, assumptions, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items.
• Coordinate with offshore functional consultants, technical developers, integration teams, reporting teams, and testers to ensure requirements are understood and delivered as per project plan.
• Validate Oracle PPM Cloud configurations and solution design for Project Costing, Project Management, Project Contract Billing, and Project Resource Management.
• Facilitate regular customer meetings, offshore handoffs, status reviews, design walkthroughs, test readiness reviews, and defect triage sessions.
• Support CRP, SIT, UAT, regression testing, data validation, cutover mock runs, go-live readiness, and hypercare from the onsite location.
• Track open items, defects, dependencies, change requests, and escalations; follow up with responsible teams to drive timely closure.
• Provide clear communication to customer and project leadership on progress, risks, blockers, decisions required, and offshore delivery status.
• Ensure quality of deliverables by reviewing documents, test evidence, configuration updates, reporting outputs, and integration touchpoints before customer review.
Required Skills:
• Strong onsite customer-facing experience for Oracle PPM Cloud implementation projects
• Hands-on experience in Oracle Project Costing, Project Management, Project Contract Billing, and Project Resource Management
• Ability to lead customer requirement workshops, process walkthroughs, fit-gap discussions, and solution clarification meetings
• Experience in documenting business requirements, functional specifications, configuration decisions, open items, risks, assumptions, and action items
• Ability to coordinate with offshore functional, technical, integration, reporting, and testing teams for timely delivery
• Experience in managing customer communications, meeting notes, status updates, issue follow-ups, and stakeholder alignment
• Experience supporting CRP, SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and hypercare from onsite location
• Good understanding of Oracle Integration Cloud, OTBI/BI Publisher reporting touchpoints, and cross-module dependencies with Finance, Procurement, and Projects
Must Haves;
• Minimum 10+ years of Oracle PPM experience with strong Oracle Fusion PPM Cloud implementation exposure
• Strong onsite customer-facing capability with experience in requirement gathering, workshop facilitation, business process discussions, and stakeholder communication
• Hands-on functional knowledge of Oracle Project Costing, Project Management, Project Contract Billing, and Project Resource Management
• Ability to bridge customer requirements with offshore delivery teams and ensure clear understanding of scope, design decisions, priorities, and timelines
• Experience preparing BRDs, functional design documents, configuration documents, workshop notes, issue logs, action trackers, test scripts, and status reports
• Experience coordinating CRP, SIT, UAT, data validation, cutover planning, go-live readiness, and hypercare support activities
• Ability to manage customer expectations, track dependencies, escalate risks/issues, and drive closure with offshore and customer teams
• Excellent communication, presentation, documentation, coordination, and stakeholder management skills
Good to have:
• Oracle Fusion PPM Cloud certification
• Experience working in US onsite-offshore delivery model
• Knowledge of Oracle Financials Cloud modules such as GL, AP, AR, FA, and SLA
• Exposure to OIC integrations, OTBI/BI Publisher reporting, and data migration activities
• Agile delivery experience and ability to collaborate with PMO, business process owners, testers, and technical teams