Estuate Inc. is hiring for a contract role
Remote
Oracle - Techno-Functional Consultant
Finance and SCM Module
We are seeking an experienced **Techno-Functional Consultant** specializing in **Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management (SCM)** with exposure to **Finance modules** such as Accounts Payable (AP). The candidate will act as the key functional bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, supporting data extraction from Oracle Fusion, loading into a staging layer, and helping downstream teams understand and consume the data effectively.
Key Responsibilities
?? Functional Support & Business Engagement
- Work closely with business stakeholders to **understand and interpret requirements** through a business lens, ensuring clarity before passing to technical teams.
- Provide functional expertise across core Oracle Fusion modules:
- **Inventory Management**
- **Procurement**
- **Order Management (OM)**
- **Accounts Payable (AP)**
- Help business users **articulate their data needs clearly** and bridge the gap between what the business asks for and what the data can deliver.
- Act as a **go-to functional resource** for day-to-day queries from both business and technical teams.
?? Data Extraction & Technical Collaboration
- Support the technical team in navigating **Oracle Fusion data structures** across SCM and Finance modules, including key tables, views, and data entities such as:
- Inventory transactions, on-hand balances, item master
- Purchase Orders, Receipts, Supplier data
- Sales Orders, Order Lines, Fulfilment data
- AP Invoices, Payments, Supplier Invoices
- Guide the technical team on the most appropriate **Oracle Fusion data extraction methods**, including:
- **OTBI (Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence)**
- **BIP (Business Intelligence Publisher)**
- **REST APIs**
- **FTP-based extracts**
- Validate extracted data against Oracle Fusion source to ensure **accuracy and completeness** before loading into the staging layer.
- Support and review the **loading of data into the staging layer**, ensuring the data is correctly mapped and traceable back to the source.
?? Data Consumption & Modelling Guidance
- Help analytics and data teams **understand the functional meaning** of extracted data entities and how they relate to each other across SCM and Finance modules.
- Provide functional context to support **data modelling decisions**, such as:
- How Inventory transactions relate to financial postings
- How Purchase Orders link to Receipts and AP Invoices (Procure-to-Pay flow)
- How Sales Orders connect to Fulfilment and Revenue (Order-to-Cash flow)
- Advise on how data can be **consumed** without going into detailed technical design.
- Support teams in understanding **key identifiers, hierarchies, and reference data** (e.g., Item Categories, Inventory Organizations, Business Units, Cost Centers).
?? Cross-Team Enablement
- Be available to **answer functional questions** from BI, analytics, and data teams regarding Oracle Fusion SCM and Finance data.
- Conduct **informal knowledge-sharing** to improve team understanding of module-specific data and business processes.
- Support **data validation exercises** by providing functional context on expected data behaviour and business rules.
Required Skills & Experience
**Skill Area**
**Requirements**
**Oracle Fusion SCM**
Strong hands-on functional knowledge in Inventory, Procurement, Order Management
**Oracle Fusion Finance**
Working knowledge of Accounts Payable (AP) module and its data
**Data Extraction**
Familiarity with Oracle Fusion extraction methods – OTBI, BIP, REST APIs
**Technical Acumen**
Ability to work alongside technical teams, understand SQL queries, data mappings and staging concepts
**Business Engagement**
Proven ability to listen to business requirements and translate them into clear functional and data needs
**Cross-functional Collaboration**
Experience working across multiple teams including technical, analytics, and business
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Exposure to **Procure-to-Pay (P2P)** and **Order-to-Cash (O2C)** end-to-end processes
- Familiarity with **data warehousing or staging layer concepts**
- Experience with reporting tools such as **Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Power BI, or Tableau**
- Knowledge of **Oracle Fusion data model** and standard reporting subject areas
Soft Skills
- Strong **communication skills** with the ability to explain complex functional concepts in simple terms
- Comfortable working in a **collaborative, multi-team environment**
- Pragmatic and **solution-oriented** approach
- Ability to **prioritize and manage** multiple requests from different teams simultaneously
- Proactive in flagging **data or functional gaps** to the relevant stakeholders"