Oracle Cloud Financials Senior Principal Consultant Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote with Client and Project Travel
Overview Mako Professionals' client, an established Oracle consulting partner, is seeking an experienced Oracle Cloud Financials Senior Principal Consultant to join its North American consulting organization as a full-time employee.
This consultant will lead complex, global Oracle Cloud Financials implementation projects from initial discovery and solution design through configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support. The role will serve as a senior functional leader, helping clients modernize financial processes, design scalable Oracle Cloud solutions, and improve the performance of their finance organizations.
The ideal candidate combines deep Oracle Cloud Financials expertise with strong accounting knowledge, consulting experience, and client leadership skills. This person should be comfortable leading global design workshops, advising senior business stakeholders, managing cross-functional delivery teams, and translating complex financial requirements into practical solutions.
This opportunity offers the ability to work on innovative Oracle Cloud initiatives, expand into new functional areas, earn additional certifications, and contribute to the continued development of the organization's consulting methodologies and delivery tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the definition, design, and delivery of Oracle Cloud Financials solutions.
- Manage Oracle Cloud Financials implementation projects from initial discovery through deployment and stabilization.
- Partner with clients to understand business requirements, operational challenges, accounting needs, and long-term objectives.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, efficient, and supportable Oracle Cloud solutions.
- Facilitate global design workshops, requirements sessions, process reviews, conference room pilots, and stakeholder presentations.
- Design comprehensive financial system architectures using Oracle Cloud Financials applications.
- Develop current-state and future-state business process flows using Oracle leading practices.
- Lead functional design, process design, configuration, prototyping, testing, training, deployment, and support planning activities.
- Provide guidance on Oracle Cloud Financials functionality, implementation standards, and industry best practices.
- Design and validate enterprise structures, charts of accounts, accounting configurations, and financial reporting structures.
- Identify functional gaps and develop appropriate configuration, integration, reporting, or process solutions.
- Collaborate with Oracle HCM, SCM, PPM, technical, integration, and data teams to ensure accurate financial application integration.
- Evaluate the accounting impact of transactions and integrations across enterprise applications.
- Lead and mentor functional consultants while coordinating work across onsite and offshore delivery teams.
- Manage project priorities, risks, timelines, deliverables, and client expectations.
- Build strong relationships with client executives, finance leaders, business users, and technical stakeholders.
- Support continuous improvement of implementation methodologies, templates, tools, and consulting practices.
Oracle Cloud Financials Areas
Candidates should have strong hands-on experience across several of the following Oracle Cloud applications:
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Cash Management
- Fixed Assets
- Financial Reporting
- Expenses
- Tax
- Lease Accounting
- Revenue Management
- Accounting Hub
- Intercompany Accounting
- Collections
Required Qualifications
- Extensive Oracle Financials consulting and implementation experience.
- Deep functional expertise with Oracle Cloud Financials applications, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, and Financial Reporting.
- Hands-on experience completing at least five full-cycle Oracle Cloud Financials implementations.
- Experience leading global or enterprise-scale Oracle Cloud implementation projects.
- Strong understanding of financial business processes, accounting principles, controls, and industry standards.
- Experience designing and implementing end-to-end Oracle Cloud financial architectures.
- Expertise designing charts of accounts, enterprise structures, legal entities, business units, ledgers, and Trading Community Architecture.
- Experience conducting requirements workshops, solution design sessions, process reviews, and conference room pilots.
- Strong understanding of the Oracle SaaS implementation lifecycle, including:
- Current-state process discovery
- Requirements gathering and traceability
- Fit-gap analysis
- Future-state process design
- Functional configuration
- Prototyping
- Testing
- Data conversion
- Integration design
- Training
- Deployment
- Post-go-live support
- Experience developing functional documentation, including:
- Business requirements
- Fit-gap assessments
- Key design decisions
- Process flows
- Functional design specifications
- Data conversion strategies
- Data integration requirements
- Test scenarios
- Support procedures
- Experience collaborating with Oracle HCM, SCM, and PPM functional leads.
- Previous experience leading cross-functional project teams and mentoring consultants.
- Experience managing client relationships at both the executive and operational levels.
- Experience coordinating onsite, nearshore, and offshore project resources.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects, priorities, and assignments.
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Oracle Cloud Financials certification.
- Additional Oracle ERP Cloud certifications.
- Experience with Revenue Management.
- Experience with Accounting Hub.
- Experience with Lease Accounting.
- Experience with Financial Reporting Studio, Smart View, OTBI, or Oracle Analytics.
- Experience supporting Oracle Cloud integrations with HCM, SCM, PPM, banking, tax, payroll, or third-party financial applications.
- Familiarity with U.S. public-sector financial processes and requirements.
- Previous experience working with or supporting U.S. public-sector clients.
Professional Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to simplify complex financial and technical concepts for business stakeholders.
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
- Strong verbal communication and presentation capabilities.
- Consultative approach with the ability to listen, ask effective questions, and understand client challenges.
- Ability to build trust and maintain relationships with executives, finance leaders, project teams, and business users.
- Strong project organization, planning, and time-management skills.
- Ability to manage deadlines and shifting priorities without compromising quality.
- Comfortable making decisions and responding to challenges in fast-moving project environments.
- Collaborative team player who actively shares knowledge and supports colleagues.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
- Flexible, adaptable, proactive, and client-focused.
Compensation and Benefits
The organization offers a competitive compensation package and a strong employee-focused culture, including:
- Competitive base salary and performance bonus
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid training and Oracle certifications
- Professional development opportunities
- Exposure to emerging Oracle technologies
- Collaborative project teams
- Complex and innovative client engagements
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