Oracle Finance Platform Lead

6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Bristol - Hybrid Working 3 days per week onsite

Up to £70,000 + benefits

Fantastic new 6-month fixed term contract opportunity for an experienced Oracle Finance Platform Lead for this market leading company based in Bristol.

As the Finance Platform Lead you will provide technical leadership, guidance, and expertise in the development, implementation, and optimisation of their Finance Platforms (predominantly Oracle EBS). This role ensures that the platform aligns with business objectives, is efficient, well run, and is equipped with the latest features and functionalities to support the Finance, Operational and Central teams.

You will own the Finance (Oracle EBS) Platform vision, strategy and roadmap ensuring communication and buy-in from the wider business. You will have a real passion for their users, understanding the importance of using insights about how our users engage with our platforms and products to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

Leading a team of c8 Finance Analysts, you will be passionate about people and about creating a supportive and high-performing environment to help develop and motivate a team towards a shared purpose and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and grow a high performing team with the skills to deliver digital-enabled value through their current and future Finance platforms (primarily Oracle EBS). Empower a team to make decisions, creating phycological safety for them to develop, test and learn at speed.
• Work closely with the business to set Finance platform strategy, priorities, manage dependencies and maintain alignment with business outcomes.
• Establish and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver large scale changes and continuous improvement (small change) through the entire development life cycle, measuring the impact on both user experience and business outcomes.
• Accountable for in-life platform performance, defining and reporting on the success.
• Provide expertise and team leadership in managing end-user support; creating robust business processes and system documentation; diagnosing and fixing system issues; managing UAT; and ensuring Audit compliance of the platform.
• Set and align team priorities with our overall Digital, IT and Business Strategy and OKRs.
• Build partnerships with their Platform Partners (ie Oracle) ensuring a two-way learning process, driving optimal value from those relationships.
• Keep up to date with emerging finance technologies and market trends, feeding these back into the team and business.

Skills Required:

• Proven experience within a similar Finance Platform Lead position.
• Significant experience and results in building and coaching high-performing, collaborative and fulfilled teams.
• Experience with Oracle Systems, Modules, including Finance, P2P, and Workflow.
• Proficient in providing support and analysis for Oracle EBS R12; preferably familiar with using a call logging system.
• Technical understanding of Oracle Databases and development tools.
• Familiar with UAT processes
• Previous successful delivery and measurement of innovation and continuous improvements across Platforms/Products.
• Track record of managing complex technology projects from design to build, test, implementation and measurement.
• Has built strong relationships with third-party SaaS supplier creating and driving a collaborative, high performance results.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of the business and team members.
• Ability to understand and use data to drive decisions and prove or dis-prove hypothesis.
• Understanding of complex business problems to apply technology and the "art of the possible" to solving these problems for the business and their customers.
• Proven ability to respond to and prioritise changing demands effectively.
• Strong business instinct and judgement, with a desire to challenge the status quo.

For any further queries regarding the role, please contact Danny Palmer at (see below)